Festivals of A Limia month by month

This page arranges by month the festivals and fairs of A Limia that have their own page or a cited source in the corpus. When the date changes each year, the rule is given ^[1][2][3].

January

• San Sebastián (20 January): co-patron saint of Xinzo de Limia ^[4]. See Festivities of Santa Mariña.

February

• San Brais (3 February), in Laroá ^[4]. See Laroá.

February or March (movable)

• Entroido of Xinzo de Limia: a movable festival tied to the Lent calendar. The Pantallas are its central figure; see Anatomy of the Pantalla, craftspeople and historic pantallas and the Museo Galego do Entroido.

May

• Festa da Santa Cruz (early May), in Santa María de Lamas: young men dance the processional dance of the danzantes, revived in 1981. See the entry on Lamas ^[2][4].
• Feira das Mozas (14 May), in Xinzo: the fair of the 14th of that month, when the town filled with young men and women looking for a partner; see The fairs of Xinzo through time ^[5].

June

• Festa das Flores (first weekend of June), in Trandeiras (Xinzo de Limia) ^[4].
• San Xoán (24 June): a local holiday in Rairiz de Veiga ^[1] and the festival of Guntimil and the Polígono district in Xinzo ^[4]. See Guntimil.
• San Pedro (29 June), in A Pena, Laroá and Boado ^[4]. See Boado.

July

• Festivities of Santa Mariña (around 18 July), in Xinzo: procession, mass, the key game, orchestras and concerts over several days. See Festivities of Santa Mariña.

August

• Festa do Esquecemento (a weekend in late August): re-enacts the arrival of Decimus Junius Brutus’s legions at the Lethes. See Festa do Esquecemento.
• San Bartolomeu (23 August), in Ganade ^[4]. See Ganade.
• Ethnographic fair of A Pereira (first Sunday of August), in Rairiz de Veiga, in memory of Antón Tovar ^[1]. See Ethnographic heritage of Rairiz de Veiga.

September

• Os Remedios (9 September), in Novás, and Nosa Señora das Dores (15 September), in Moreiras ^[4]. See Novás and Moreiras.
• Romaría da Saínza (around 24 September): Moors and Christians, Cen Doncelas and Nosa Señora da Mercé. See Romaría da Saínza.

All year: monthly fairs

• A Saínza fair: on the 23rd of each month, in the Saínza field (Rairiz de Veiga) ^[1].
• Ponte fair or Feira Nova: on the 22nd of each month at Ponte Liñares, the historic fair attached to Xinzo’s; see The Ponte de Liñares ^[3].
• Xinzo fair: on the 14th and 27th of each month ^[4][5]; see The fairs of Xinzo through time and The town of Xinzo.

Links

• Festivals of A Limia
• Calendar of patron-saint festivals, pilgrimages and magostos: the festivals of the other concellos and parishes
• A Limia
• Xinzo de Limia
• Rairiz de Veiga

Sources

1. «Feiras e festas máis importantes», Concello de Rairiz de Veiga. https://rairizdeveiga.es/index.php/gl/feiras-festas
2. «A festa da Santa Cruz: parroquia de Santa María de Lamas», Historia de Xinzo. https://historiadexinzo.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/a-festa-da-santa-cruz-parroquia-de-santa-maria-de-lamas-xinzo-de-limia/
3. «A Ponte de Liñares», Historia de Xinzo. https://historiadexinzo.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/a-ponte-de-linares/
4. Concello de Xinzo de Limia, «Festas patronais». http://www.xinzodelimia.es/estaticas/festas-patronais/ — Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20170814000751/http://www.xinzodelimia.es:80/estaticas/festas-patronais/
5. «As feiras de Xinzo a través do tempo», Historia de Xinzo. https://historiadexinzo.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/as-feiras-de-xinzo-a-traves-do-tempo/