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Sweet Wine and Packed Sweaty Streets

Anyone who’s been to the Feria de Málaga knows about sweet wine and packed sweaty streets, about walking through sweltering crowds, alcohol raining down from above and an unbroken din of chaotic sound assaulting your ears.

Author: Patrick Collins

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This is what the Feria is all about: ten days of absolute craziness. Although you could say Spain is a pretty Catholic country, this party has nothing holy about it – it’s all about getting drunk and partying in the streets.

The celebration takes place in August and starts in the historic center during the day, with people filling the streets, bars and pubs in massive numbers.

Walk into a popular bar like FraggleRock and you’ll find yourself elbow to elbow, quite literally, with fellow partiers. The good thing is that if you get too drunk and pass out you’ll never hit the floor – the dense crowd will keep you upright like a cigarette in a brand new pack until you come back to consciousness.

Then later perhaps you’ll wander out of the bar and make your way through the packed streets vibrating with music and energy to meet up with your friends and guzzle some Cartojal or Málaga Dulce … sweet wine served chilled.

It’s the fuel of the fiesta – it goes down deceptively easily and tastes too good to retain control for long. This kind of wine isn’t very common throughout most of the world, but it gets all the attention it deserves during Málaga’s Feria. You can actually win a bottle by taking a quick online survey about Spain.

When night falls, the celebration moves to the Recinto Ferial on the outskirts of the city, a huge outdoor facility designed especially for occasions like these. Here you’ll find hundreds of huge tents were you can eat, drink and dance. You can also watch concerts and brave all kinds of exciting rides.

There’s fun for people of all ages – you’ll even see mothers pushing their children around in strollers at four in the morning. And the funny thing is, the party doesn’t really have to stop at all, because once things wind down in the Recinto Ferial you can just head over to the historic center again.

Anyone up for a week without sleep?

About Author

Patrick lives in Malaga, where he works for UniSpain, a company that offers information and free booking of Spanish language courses in public universities and private language schools throughout Spain.

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Sweet Wine and Packed Sweaty Streets