This document provides information on several famous Spanish festivals and festivities: - La Tomatina in August in Buñol, where over 30,000 people throw tomatoes at each other - Las Fallas in March in Valencia, featuring parades and the burning of sculptures made of cardboard - Los San Fermines in Pamplona in July, most famous for the running of the bulls through the streets - San Juan celebrations in June in Alicante, featuring rituals with fire, water, and burning effigies It also includes a timeline of important events in Spanish history from 1100 BC to 2004.

1. SPANISH FESTIVITIES What do you know about Spanish festivals? Miss Alos

3. San Mateo, La Rioja September (around the 21st, the Day of San Mateo). Logrono, La Rioja. Harvesting festivities of one of the most renown wine regions in Spain. The Rioja is the center of a very important wine culture.

4. La Tomatina August. Bu ñ ol. Valencia. Every year around 30,00 people descend on the Spanish town of Bu ñ ol (in the Valencia region of Spain) to throw more than 240,000 pounds of tomatoes at each other as part of the La Tomatina festival.

5. Las Fallas March. Valencia. This Fiesta dates from the Middle Ages, but it did not acquire the personality we know today until the middle of the last century. The festivites include a nighttime parade; a procession of the old towns of Valencia; the offerings of flowers to Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados (Our Lady of the Forsaken), patroness of the city; and the famous "Nit del Foc" (Night of the Fire), on which all the "fallas" (grotesque and humorous scenes made up of carboard figures) are burned.