Granada's Corpus Fair 2017
The Corpus fair is the most important fair of the city. Every year, it begins on a Saturday at midnight with the “alumbra”, which consists in switching on thousands of light bulbs of the front entrance, and ends on the following Saturday with a firework performance.
Start date: 10.06.2017 Ending date: 18.06.2017
This fair is more than five hundred years old, and they were celebrated for the first time under royal mandate. They are part of the happiest traditions preserved in the city and over the history they have been used as a break in the quotidian life of the people from Granada, promoting days of healthy coexistence and amusement.
Granada smells and dresses like Corpus during these days where a full range of cultural events, among which stand out the bull-fighting festivities and the decorated booths where music and joy is the main protagonist.
The general mood of the fair can be enjoyed both by the day and at night. The elegant horse carriage ride filled with people dressed with the traditional local costumes, the flamenco mood, the booths and their decorations which are taken care to every detail.
In Granada’s fair, unlike in other fairs of Andalucia, the public booths are interspersed with the private ones, so the visitor may enter freely.
During the week of the fair there are two processions that stand out of the rest and that go over the main streets of the city:
On Wednesday, during midmorning, the Tarasca, a mannequin which wares the clothes that will be fashionable on the next season, is walked around the city on top of a wild dragon which seems to surrender at its feet. Thus the best kept secret, until this day, is the costume that it will ware that day. The Tarasca, you may say, is the pagan counterpoint of the religious festivity.
The big event of Granada is organized on Thursday, set off of the Corpus Christi, day in which the city fills up the streets to contemplate the procession of the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.
Come and enjoy the Corpus in Granada!!