🎉 Festes de Santa Bàrbara 2025 – Vilafranca de Bonany
🗓 28 November – 8 December 2025
📍 Vilafranca de Bonany, Mallorca
Vilafranca celebrates its patron saint with ten days of deeply rooted, km0 traditions, culture and community spirit. From historic rituals to lively markets and modern festive events, Santa Bàrbara remains one of the island’s most authentic winter celebrations.
✨ Highlights
🎄 Mercadet de Santa Bàrbara (7 Dec)
Artisan stalls, children’s workshops, traditional crafts, gegants, xeremiers, Vilatukada, and the emblematic tronada de Santa Bàrbara.
🥣 4 December – Festivity of Santa Bàrbara
The most traditional day of the programme: bunyols with mistela, the Ball dels Cavallets, the geganta Bàrbara, solemn mass and the community bunyolada in Plaça Major.
🎶 Music & Culture
• Coral concerts (8 Dec)
• Live music with Duo Xic
• “El Niño de la Cala” in concert (7 Dec)
• Presentations of local history books and talks
• Guided visits to the Bonany centenary exhibition
🔥 Festive Events & Traditions
• Camillada with chocolate & games (5 Dec)
• Santa Bàrbara at the school (3 Dec)
• Petanca tournament
• Football match & Green Fest with Horris Kamoi + DJs (6 Dec)
• Dinar de Barbuts (7 Dec) – for those with beards only!
👻 Extra Programme (12–14 Dec)
• Solidarity calendar presentation (12 Dec)
• VIII Night-time Horror Gymkhana (13 Dec)
• Ploma de Milana short-story awards (14 Dec)
A celebration that honours Vilafranca’s origins, traditions and community – from ancient rituals to joyful street life.
