Moscatell Festival in Teulada-Moraira 2011

Moscatell Festival in Teulada-Moraira 2011

Moscatell Festival in Teulada-Moraira 2011

Moscatell Festival in Teulada-Moraira 2011

Teulada-Moraira is a town with rooted wine traditions, to the point if being —together with tourism— its economic motor.

For this reason, every year the town holds the Moscatell Festival, to celebrate the moscatell grape harvested in Teulada, raw material of the traditional and widely known “mistela de Teulada” —Teulada hot punch.

The festival takes place on Saturday 20 August. In this popular festival, visitors can learn the traditional methods to make wine, dance, enjoy the parades, taste grapes and hot punch, etc. This is the schedule.

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Teulada Fiestas “Divina Pastora”

Teulada Fiestas “Divina Pastora”

Fiestas in Teulada with traditional Valencian region music

Fiestas in Teulada with traditional Valencian region music

The weekend of the 18th and 19th of September, Teulada celebrates its “Divina Pastora” fiestas, a traditional local fiesta that they stopped celebrating and that “Colla El Falçó” Association of  rustic flute and small drum players has recovered and has been celebrating for several years in order to encourage and promote Valencian and popular music and transmit the cultural identity of the town.

On Saturday 18th of September those that visit Teulada can enjoy a game of “pilota valenciana” (a Valencian region ball game) on De Dalt Street, a tune played by street musicians Colla El Falçó at 7pm in the historic heart of Teulada and a popular evening dinner and “Cantada a la Fresca” traditional songs sung on the street.

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