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Fire, Grapes & Battles: Mallorca's Great Summer Fiestas

Three of the island's most spectacular late-summer fiestas — a fire-run through the streets of Sóller, a 10,000-kilo grape battle in Binissalem, and a beach re-enactment of a medieval invasion at Santa Ponça.

By Thril editor

When the heat peaks, Mallorca's towns throw their biggest parties of the year. Forget the beach for a night: these three fiestas are the island at its most theatrical — sparks raining over a packed plaza, tonnes of grapes flying between neighbours, and hundreds of costumed locals storming a beach. Each is free, deeply local, and worth planning a day around.

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Festes de Sant Bartomeu

Sóller · 24 August

The patron-saint fiesta ends with the Nit de Foc — the Esclatabutzes de Sóller fire-run a correfoc through Plaça Constitució, spraying showers of sparks over the crowd.

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Festa des Vermar

Binissalem

The grape-harvest festival in the heart of Mallorca's DO wine country, famous for the Gran Batalla de Raïm — some 10,000 kilos of grapes thrown in one gloriously messy morning.

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Festes del Rei En Jaume — El Desembarco

Santa Ponça

Calvià's flagship fiesta re-enacts King Jaume I's 1229 landing with a Moors-and-Christians battle staged on the beach, plus a medieval market and a night of fire.

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