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Home > What´s on > FIESTA DE LA MATANZA 2024

11/02/2024 - 8:00

Parque de la Cubana

FIESTA DE LA MATANZA 2024

Various activities such as the making and tasting of fresh pot, a sausage-making workshop for children, performances. Free admission.

SUNDAY 11th FEBRUARY:

8.00 am.- Work begins to prepare a giant “olla fresca” (a pork stew made with rice, beans and pulses)

10.00 am.- Workshop for children to make salchichas (pork sausages). Two groups starting at 10 am and 11.30 am. Prior registration required until February 8th in the Concejalía de Festejos (Casa de Cultura).

11.00 am.- Live music from the music group “La Chirigota de Alhama”.

11.00 am.- “Un paseo por Alhama”. Guided tour in Spanish through the city centre. Previous booking required at the tourist office (+34 968 633 512) or online. Price: €3 for adults and €2 for children from 3 to 12 years old. Meeting point: Los Baños Archaeological Museum.

11.30 am.- Ceremony to officially recognise  the businesses collaborating with this edition of the Fiesta de la Matanza.

11.45 am.- Live music from the traditional folk music group “Grupo Folklórico Villa de Alhama”.

12.30 pm. Live music from the traditional music group “Aires de Espuña”.

12.40 pm.- Free samples of various delicatessen products to try.

12.45 pm.- Delivery of diplomas to the participating children in the “salchichas making” workshop.

1.15 pm.- Live music from the group “La Colla del Ramblar”.

2.15 pm.- Free OLLA FRESCA for all to try (a rich pork stew, cooked over a period of hours with rice, beans and pulses)

2.30 pm.- Free traditional dessert in the form of paparajotes (a lemon leaf coated in a batter made of flour, egg and lemon zest and then fried and dusted in sugar and cinnamon).