Folk dance night: Lo Cirilo and Lo Xular
📍 Plaza Vista Alegre, Alcossebre
Traditional dances with the Lo Cirilo dance group and the Lo Xular pipers and drummers, open air and free to attend.
Events
Alcossebre events 2026
Here is what’s on in Alcossebre and Alcalà de Xivert. The total solar eclipse of 12 August has been and gone —the next two, in 2027 and 2028, are in the eclipse guide—; what comes next is the patron saint fiestas, 2 to 6 September. Below is the official month-by-month programme, with the day, time and place of every event.
Coming up
July 2026
Japanese days
📍 Espai d’Oci, Alcossebre
Two days of Japanese culture organised by the Lo Bonsai Gaspatxer association, with displays and activities for all ages.
Special pre-eclipse programme
📍 Alcossebre and Alcalà de Xivert
Activities in the run-up to the total eclipse, a month before the 12 August date, per the municipal cultural agenda.
See full programmeGolden Summer 80s and 90s festival
📍 Tomás Vallés seafront promenade, Alcossebre
An eighties and nineties music festival by the sea, on the Alcossebre promenade.
Alcossebre En-Cant
📍 Espai d’Oci / Santa Lucía hermitage
A festival of lyric and chamber music, with charity concerts in unique settings such as the Santa Lucía hermitage.
Capicorb festivities
📍 Capicorb (Cap i Corb)
Five days of festivities in the coastal hamlet of Capicorb: community dinners, concerts, alternative bull events and activities for all ages.
See full programmeConcert bands exchange
📍 Espai d’Oci, Alcossebre
A joint concert by the Santa Cecilia music association of Alcalà de Xivert and the Torreblanca municipal band.
August 2026
International Youth Day
📍 Plaza La Mola, Alcossebre
A youth night with activities and music in Plaza La Mola.
⭐ Total solar eclipse
📍 Alcossebre and Alcalà de Xivert
The big event of the year: a total solar eclipse. With “Alcossebre under the stars” astronomy activities in the run-up (observation, planetarium, astro-poetry). The municipal programme sets aside 10, 11 and 12 August for the special eclipse programme.
See full programmeThe Tears of St Lawrence
📍 Torre Ebrí (El Pinar)
Watching the Perseids from a Sierra de Irta watchtower.
Free guided visits: Xivert Castle and Santa Lucía hermitage
📍 Alcalà de Xivert / Alcossebre
Xivert Castle: Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:45. Santa Lucía and San Benet hermitage: Thursday to Sunday, 8:30 to 13:30. Free of charge.
See full programme 15 August–30 September · €9Cocktail Tour: 1st Alcossebre cocktail trail
📍 Participating venues in Alcossebre
A cocktail trail through the participating bars and cocktail bars, at a single price of €9 per drink.
See full programme“Millenary oil and olive trees” route
📍 Alcalà de Xivert
An olive-oil tourism route among thousand-year-old olive trees, with a tasting.
Alcalà de Xivert patron festivals
📍 Alcalà de Xivert
In honour of Sant Joan Baptista and the Sacred Heart: the VII Setmana Taurina Gaspatxera, an orchestra every night, a tapas trail, a craft beer fair and fireworks on the 30th.
See full programme21st Serra d’Irta walk
📍 Alcalà de Xivert – Serra d’Irta
A popular group walk through the mountains, part of the Alcalà patron festival programme.
La Vuelta stage start
📍 Alcossebre seafront promenade
Neutralised start at 13:00 from the seafront promenade and flag drop at 13:11 on the CV-142. The peloton crosses Alcalà de Xivert at 13:20.
See full programmeWild Coves route
📍 Sierra de Irta Natural Park
A 9 km guided hike through the natural park’s unspoilt coves.
XiBEERt craft beer fair
📍 Alcalà de Xivert
A craft beer fair with tasting festival and music, part of the Alcalà patron festivals.
September 2026
2–6 September6 September · 11:00 11–13 September19 September 20 September 25–27 September 27 September
Alcossebre patron festivals
📍 Tomás Vallés seafront promenade
The festive peak: parade of associations, heifer afternoons, the Gen-Z, Valhalla and La Flama orchestras, community paellas, SUPERWATERFEST and a grand firework finale on the 6th.
See full programme 5 September · 18:00“Alcossebre, seafaring and farming origins” route
📍 Alcossebre
A guided route through the village’s fishing and farming origins: the grao, the fishermen’s quarter and the port warehouses.
See full programme“121 years since the year of the eclipse” route
📍 Alcossebre
A guided route about the solar eclipse of 121 years ago and its mark on the town, in the year of the 2026 eclipse.
Iron Crew Fest
📍 Alcossebre seafront promenade
A motorbike gathering with music and charity stands for ASPANION.
See full programme“Capicorb, muscat and melon flavours” route
📍 Capicorb
A guided route around Capicorb with a tasting of local muscat and melon.
3rd Classic Vehicle Meeting
📍 Alcossebre seafront promenade
A display of classic cars (pre-1996) with live entertainment.
Alcossebre Yankee
📍 Alcossebre
A gathering of American trucks and cars.
Custom Maestrat charity morning
📍 Alcossebre
A morning gathering of custom motorbikes for charity.
October 2026
“Alcalà and the Tomata de Penjar” route
📍 Alcalà de Xivert
A gastronomic route around the local heirloom hanging tomato, with tasting. Sundays 3, 10, 17 and 24 October.
Spooky hiking route
📍 Cala Blanca
A night hike of legends through the darker side of the Sierra de Irta (6 km).
November 2026
1 NovemberVarious dates
“The Templars of Xivert” staged route
📍 Xivert Castle
A historical re-enactment of the castle’s Templar past.
See full programme“Xivert Monumental” and “Millenary Oil and Olives” routes
📍 Alcalà de Xivert
Guided heritage visits and an olive-oil tourism route with tasting.
All summer long (series)
Estiu a la Fresca
📍 Squares of Alcalà de Xivert and Capicorb
An open-air live-music series on eight Saturdays at 22:30: 27 June (duo Tabú, plaça de l’Església), 4 July (Energy, Plaza Juan Vilanova), 11 July (Melodia, Calle Doctor Seguer), 18 July (+Music, Calle Francisco Sospedra), 25 July (Triband, old Capicorb schools), 1 August (Energy, Calle Maestrat), 8 August (Melodia, Calle General Cucala) and 15 August (Tabú, Paseo Héroes de Marruecos).
Alcozancos: street parades and fire shows
📍 Las Fuentes promenade and Plaza Vista Alegre
The Alcozancos stilt-walkers come out on six summer Thursdays at 20:00: street parades on 9 and 23 July and 6 and 20 August, and fire shows on 30 July and 13 August.
Market Marina Las Fuentes
📍 Las Fuentes Marina
A craft market by the sea with activities, every Thursday in summer from 18:00 to 00:00.
Open-air chess
📍 Calle Rench, Alcalà de Xivert
Open-air chess games on July and August evenings.
Summer sports activities
📍 Alcossebre and Alcalà de Xivert
Open classes of Latin rhythms, aerobics, tai chi, yoga and activa’t, at various times and venues across the municipality.
Themed guided routes
📍 Alcossebre and Alcalà
Cultural, gastronomic and astronomy hikes: seafaring origins, millenary olives, coves, watchtowers…
Year-round: traditional festivals
Foguera de Sant Antoni
📍 Alcossebre town centre
Bonfires with communal paellas and music honouring Saint Anthony the Abbot.
Carnival
📍 Alcalà and Alcossebre
Troupe parades in handmade costumes over two weekends.
Holy Week
📍 Alcossebre and Alcalà
Processions in Alcalà and the Easter “mona” tradition in the Sierra de Irta coves.
Corpus Christi
📍 Church of San Juan Bautista, Alcalà de Xivert
Mass in the parish church and procession through the customary streets.
Sant Benet pilgrimage
📍 Santa Lucía and San Benet hermitage
Mass and procession in honour of Saint Benedict at the hermitage. In 2026 it was held on Sunday 21 June at 12:30.
See full programmeSaint John’s Night
📍 Alcossebre beaches
Beach bonfires and fireworks to welcome the summer.
Festa de Santa Llúcia
📍 Santa Lucía hermitage
Mass and procession to the patron saint on the weekend near 13 December.
See full programmeProgramme taken from the town council’s Agenda Cultural Estiu 2026 — the most recent official source, which prevails in case of discrepancy — completed with the Tourism agenda for the weekly series and guided routes. Dates, times and capacity may change: check the updated detail at alcossebre.org/agenda and in the 2026 Activities Programme (PDF).
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