Sant Jaume Week: Where Mallorca Parties on 25 July

Every Mallorcan town keeps a patron saint, and on 25 July three of them share the same one: Sant Jaume — Saint James. It makes for a rare week where you can pick your fiesta by mood rather than by date. Want fireworks over a floodlit medieval wall? Go north. Want drummers and devils running fire through the streets? Head to the hills. Want to graze a craft fair with a beer in hand? Aim for the plain. In Alcúdia, the walled old town is the setting — streets dressed for the occasion, capgrossos (big-heads) escorting the town hall, a solemn mass, and the municipal band playing the 25th out under fireworks. In Calvià Vila, the week builds toward a correfoc — the Mediterranean fire-run where costumed dimonis and a drum line loose sparks over a crowd that dances through it — alongside traditional ball de bot and long communal dinners in the square. In Manacor, the feast turns the centre into a fira — a craft-and-night fair of stalls, street music and food, wrapped around the patron's mass on the 25th. Three towns, one saint, one week. Tap through to each for times and the full programme.