page_title: Alicante
section_title: Festivals
hierarchical_section_title: Alicante / Festivals
caption_attribution_description: Español: La noche de San Juan, vista del Postiguet y el Castillo
context_page_description: Alicante is a city on the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alacant and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 330,525 as of 2016, the second-largest in Valencian Community.
context_section_description: The most important festival, the Bonfires of Saint John (Fogueres de Sant Joan), takes place during the summer solstice. This is followed a week later by five nights of firework and pyrotechnic contests between companies on the urban beach Playa del Postiguet. Another well-known festival is Moros i Cristians in Altozano or San Blas district. Overall, the city boasts a year-round nightlife for the enjoyment of tourists, residents, and a large student population of the University of Alicante. The nightlife social scene tends to shift to nearby Playa de San Juan (St. John's Beach) during the summer months.
  Every summer in Alicante, a two-month-long programme of music, theatre and dance is staged in the Paseo del Puerto.
caption: Castle of Santa Bárbara and Postiguet beach at the final night of Bonfires of Saint John's festival
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