Benidorm Carnival - 8th March 2025
BENIDORM CARNIVAL - IMPORTANT UPDATES - The dates for this years carnival have been changed due to predicted bad weather due on Saturday 1st March - The carnival will now take place on SATURDAY 8th March.
(Carnival Time in Benidorm - The Carnival is an annual celebration, the date is dictated by when Easter falls, the Parades always take place on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. NOT THIS YEAR SEE ABOVE)
The children's parade will take place on Saturday morning. Participants will gather at 10 a.m. on Calle Escuelas Street to begin the parade at around 11.15 They will tne end at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and later the awards will be presented.
In the afternoon, at there will be the concentration of the adult parade, which will begin at 21:00. from Calle Venus and will also end in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Once the parade is over, the traditional festival will be held in the tent where the awards ceremony takes place.
The Carnival finishes on Shrove Tuesday 4th March 2025 with the ritual Burial of the Sardine.
Children's Carnival
Adults Carnival
Some roads will be closed for the processions.
Carnival time in Benidorm
The Burial of the Sardine CANCELLED due to WEATHER ALERTS
This event starts at 9:30 p.m. in the Plaza Mayor and will take place along Tomás Ortuño, Limones, Ruzafa, Paseo de la Carretera and Paseo de Colón streets, where the sardine will be burned. .
The burial ceremony came to replace older Spanish customs which were held to mark the end of the winter and is symbolic of the arrival of Spring, it is also seen as a good luck ritual to ensure the fishermen, who can now venture back out to sea without fear of the winter storms, had good hauls.
It’s also a symbolic burial of the past. The ceremony is stripping away the past, in a socially established ritual of chaos, burning out the mayhem of carnival and the long winter months, and ushering in from the ashes a new year, a society reborn and serious once again, ready to face the hardships of the future.
