Festes de Sant Jaume
Manacor throws open its streets for the Festes de Sant Jaume, the town's biggest summer celebration in honour of its patron saint. From 17 to 25 July 2026, the plaças fill with giant figures, traditional races, open-air concerts, children's workshops and two big revetlles — a week when the whole town dresses in white and takes to the streets. The festa builds across the week. It opens on Friday 17 with the handover of Sant Jaume's standard and the Crida a la festa, followed by ball de bot folk dancing on Plaça de Ramon Llull. Saturday 18 brings the Corregudes des Cos traditional foot races — back this year at their old home in Baix des Cos — children's workshops, and the beloved casament d'en Jaumet i na Jaumeta, the wedding of the town's giant figures on Plaça des Cos, which rolls straight into Ses Canyes: a soapy greased-pole scramble with DJs and water pistols. Music & tradition: Midweek turns cultural, with organ concerts at the Església de Sant Vicenç Ferrer, the XVIII Milla Ciutat de Manacor road race, a home-made wine showcase (Mostra de vins casolans), open-air cinema, and a cafè concert by Manacor singer-songwriter Damià Fluxà. The big nights: Friday 24 hosts the Fira de Sant Jaume craft-and-food night market on Plaça de Ramon Llull and the first revetlla (Orquestra Oasis, VAL-9 and Gas butano). Saturday 25 — Sant Jaume day itself — runs from the morning Ofici at the Parròquia Nostra Senyora dels Dolors to the night-time Encamisada procession with the Cavalls de Sant Jaume, the córrer l'anell ring-tilt, and a closing revetlla headlined by La Década Prodigiosa with DJ-Titi on Plaça de Ramon Llull. Everything is free and in the open air. Wear white — it's the Sant Jaume tradition.