Festivals in Hellín

Local festivals of Hellín

Hellín's best-known celebration is its Semana Santa, with processions and drumming. The official Holy Week website of Hellín presents it as a celebration with three simultaneous dimensions: church services, processions and drumming. The Association of Drummers' Clubs also highlights the drumming of Friday of Sorrows, Holy Wednesday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.

• Name of the municipality's festivities: Holy Week of Hellín and drumming; The Fair and Festivals in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary and the festival of San Rafael also stand out.
• Main celebration day: In Holy Week, the central period goes from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday; in 2026 it falls from 29 March to 5 April. For the patron saint festivities, the Albacete Provincial Council states that the Fair in honour of the Virgin of the Rosary begins on last saturday of september and ends the first sunday in october; San Rafael is celebrated on 24 October.
• Usual duration: Holy Week occupies the passion week and its main drums; The Fair usually takes place for several days between the end of September and the beginning of October.
• Usual places: urban area of Hellín, El Rabal, Camino de las Columnas, Calvario, parishes and procession route; At the Fair, festive spaces and the municipal fairgrounds are used.
• Associated traditions: processions, brotherhoods and brotherhoods, drumming, drumming, ascent and descent of Calvary, religious events, coexistence of drum groups, fair, cultural activities and festive programming.
• Who participates: City Council, brotherhoods and brotherhoods, Association of Drummers' Clubs, clubs, neighbors, families, visitors, cultural entities and municipal services.
• Local public holiday: para 2026, the list published in the Official Gazette of Albacete includes in Hellín the days 2 October y 24 October. This data is not equivalent to the entire holiday period, but to non-recoverable local work days.
• Other cultural events: municipal cultural programming, activities of the Tourism Office, tourist photography contest, Holy Week, Fair and agenda linked to local heritage.
• Otras ofertas culturales: Holy Week and Tamboradas Museum, Hellín Tourism, urban routes, nature routes, religious heritage, Tolmo de Minateda Archaeological Park, Abrigo Grande de Minateda and natural resources such as the Cancarix Volcano.