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Route 1: Wine culture in La Rioja (88km)

Logroņo – Briones – Haro – Labastida – Laguardia - Logroņo

Traditional Fiestas on The Wine Culture Route in Rioja

Fiestas in Logroņo:

Fiestas de San Bernabé:
11 June. This traditional Fiesta in Logroņo celebrates the resistance against the French troops in 1521. People eat fish, bread and wine.
Fiestas de San Mateo:
21 September Traditional wine harvest celebration. You will enjoy the traditional way men pressed the grapes treading on them. The first must obtained is offered to the Virgin of Valvanera, patroness of La Rioja.
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Fiestas in Briones:

Fiestas patronales
They start on the first Sunday after 14th September. This is a religious celebration where locals dance to folkloric music.
Middle ages festival
This authentic festival takes place a weekend during the first fortnight in June.
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Fiestas in Haro:

Fiesta de Haro
15 May
Fiesta de San Juan
23-24 June San Juan is celebrated all over Spain. During this night thousand of bonfires are lit in Spain.
The wine battle

29 June This is the funniest and most entertaining event in Haro… not to be missed!

You can get an idea of what the Battle of Wine Fiesta in Haro is like in this video


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Fiestas in Labastida:

Fiesta de las Reliquias (relics)
First or second Sunday in August
Wine harvest thanksgiving
Mid November when all wine harvest labour is over.
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Fiestas in Laguardia (for hotels at Wineries in Rioja look here:

Fiestas de San Juan y San Pedro
23 to 29 June
Fiesta de San Juan "Degollao"
29 August
The Piper's Day
Second Sunday in July.
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