Fireworks in Almoradi

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The Spanish love their parades, fireworks and certainly know how to party all night long.

We live amongst so many towns and villages and because noise travels so it does seem like one long party. 

Personally I love it.  Love the crazy parades, the solemn parades, the foam parties, the water fights, the daytime fireworks, the firecrackers, the night time fireworks. 
I don’t know where they get there stamina, partying until 5am and then brass band parades at 7 am.

If you live in Spain you have to embrace the lifestyle.

Lynn

Hello

 There is most certainly no law against, it is spanish tradition.  In the Torrevieja area there are even firecrackers during big football matches ...Real Madrid v Barcelona (El Classico)  as Torre residents seem to lean towards being Real  Madrid fans.

 Its quite short lived & I look forward to it now.

Cheers

Elinspain

Fireworks most other places and countries light up the sky with amazing colours and displays.

But not in Almoradi. They are not firecrackers but go off like literal bombs.

They are VERY NOISY and if some elderly people drop dead of a heart attack, i would not be surprised. I had a WTF moment as one blasted off without warning today, and it was quite some distance from me. Such fireworks seem to be every month, though I suppose many are just yobs who let them off in the nearby park to scare off the many birds usually in the trees.

And of course there are pets, but who cares about them as long as people are happy?

PS. Why parades of cycists? I can't stand them at the best of times with HUNDREDS of them at a time twice in the last few months while some idiot thought everyone within a kilomotre would like to listen to his music and his inane ramblings from next to the petrol station on Ave de Orihuela. Why did they not stay in the Catral area?

 The Mascletà  is meant to be very noisy, sounds like the Russians are invading, but you’ll get used to it. If you only hear fireworks on a monthly basis, where I am it’s usually more than 300 days a year.  I would suggest that if you are of a nervous disposition not to ever attend a Mascletà or a Correfoc. 

You’ve also picked on one of the national sports of Spain - cycling. They love it with a passion.

I’ve been lucky enough to see La Vuelta pass through the area on three occasions and the Spanish are just as passionate about that sport as they about fireworks.

There are normally thousands of Spanish lining the roadside to watch the cyclists go by. In true Spanish tradition each day starts and ends with fireworks. 

There was a football match recently Real Madrid against Liverpool, when it ended  it again sounded as though we were on the front line. So if you don’t like noise I suggest you move out of the  country  for the re match on 15th Feb and 21st March, because it’s going to be noisy. 

Should Spain win the World Cup , the water cannons will be out, the fireworks will go on and on - they’ll probably party all the way through to Three Kings. 

it’s just part of life in Spain. 
Lynn

Hi. You seem to have traveled elsewhere. 

Have you chosen your correct decision to settle in our beautiful country & where in Spain you have decided to live?

V

Many of the 'bangers' are used here in Almoradi with the full permissions from the ayuntamiento and are for religious or local celebrations (just wait until the Saturday before the Moors & Christians week when they start around 01.30/01.45 in the morning!).  They only usually last for a few minutes.   Why not 'go with the flow' and enjoy the Spanish way of life - it can be exhilerating at times but also very tiring.   After 17 years of living in Almoradi I have got so used to them that at times I don't even notice them very much, except when they are set off on a piece of waste ground near to our building.

They are not bangers. They explode like large bombs. There is no light show. They are all NOISE and like it or not, everyone with a few miles gets to hear it.

Yes, lets indulge in Spanish festivals and not rock the boat. THE OLIVE PRESS tells us that an estimated 60,000 animals die horrific and lingering deaths every year in Spain as part of traditional fiestas – a shameful toll of torture. So what, it is all good clean fun. More from The Olive Press:

Like The Burning Bull festival sees a bull’s horns set a alight before it is made to run through the streets in a frenzied panic.

And The Pero Palo festival in Villanueva de la Vera, western Spain, sees a donkey dragged through the streets as locals chant and attack the animal with fireworks, cowbells and sharp objects. The donkey is then locked in a shed, to die from exhaustion or from its injuries.

The Rapa das Bestas festival is a 400-year-old tradition in Galicia that is described as ‘terrorising horses’. On one summer afternoon, locals chase herds of wild horses into village streets. The horses are wrestled by weekend warriors who clip their manes and tails before branding them.

At the end of each hare hunting season, hunting dogs or galgos are found hanging from trees or stuck to fence posts. Thousands are thought to be bred and murdered each year. There have been reports of some dogs being stoned to death or set on fire. 

Every year in Valencia, week-old baby quail are gathered to be launched from a specially-made bird-cannon. After being fired into the air they are blown to pieces by locals wielding shotguns.

In Lekeito have been decapitating a live goose to celebrate their patron saint.A rope is strung across the harbour and a live goose is hung upside down by its feet from it. Boats then pass underneath it as locals try to rip off its head.

On the fourth Sunday, every January, young men in Manganeses de la Polyorosa would throw a live goat from a bell tower. A crowd below would then try to catch the goat with a sheet. f the goat survived it would be drowned in a fountain.

Donkey rides have now been limited to 80 kgs, because the Spanish were allowing far heavier people on them, which could injure the donkeys. But that is interfering foreigners ruining the age old customs of Spanish people having their harmless fun.

About March, after winter, I will seek somewhere isolated, and quiet, like I had ten years ago. Not all Spanish people are so thoughtless.

As of weeks ago, I now have a next door Spanish neighbour here who SLAMS doors hard. Not bangs them but SLAMS them.

Note: In Nerja many years ago outside the Mercadona in town, two Spanish women less than a metre apart were shouting at other, full volume, with neither willing to give way to the other in their "quiet conversation". How Spanish of them.