From the capital to the smallest towns, the calendar is full of happy festivals ingrained with tradition and known for their uniqueness.

The high degree of youthful energy that flows through the streets of Salamanca has two feast days during which it can overflow, San Juan de Sahagún and La Virgen de la Vega. In spite of coinciding with exams in June 12, the students take a break and celebrate their patron saint, together with the rest of the citizens, going to parades, cultural and musical acts or mercadillos. From the 8 th to the 21 st September, for the Virgen de la Vega fair, they let loose their enthusiasm again, attending representations of folklore, musical performances and bullfights. The bullfights during this September fair have a peculiar poster to announce them: the Marisela, a long flag that is hoisted up on the clock tower of the Town Hall building; at the top is the silhouette of a black bull where the days of the bullfights are shown.

On October 31 another singular festival happens. This time envolving the tower of the New cathedral. It is the tradition of the mariquelo. This is a man who climbs up to the top of the tower and plays a popular song called a charrada with a pipe and drum, as the people look on with surprise and admiration, especially, foreigners.

The religious solemnity that the city experiences during Holy Week has its counterpoint on Water Monday, the first Monday after Easter, when university students and families go to the banks of the Tormes to commemorate a tradition of the Golden Century: the students crossed the river in boats to pick up and bring back to the village to the prostitutes that had left it during Lent. Today, they meet to eat the hornazo.

The Aguedas, February 5, is a unique day in which the women take over and, adorned with typical suits, they walk through the city playing the bagpipe and the tamboril.

The most curious carnivals are in Ciudad Rodrigo, where people in disguise, charangas and parades are accompanied with bullfights.

The festivity of the Almond trees arrives at Fregeneda, a town in Las Arribes, at the end of February or beginning of March, when these trees flourish. And in June, it is worthwhile to attend the procession of the Corpus Christi of Béjar, where men covered with moss parade in the camouflage that allowed them to conquer the Moors.

For the festivity of the Virgin Mary in August, La Alberca celebrates the Diagosto, which honor the Asunción. The 15 th floral offering are given and the 16 th the Loa (Laud) is represented in the main square. It is a play starring the devil, the jester and the knights.