Five days of Sant Pere festivities kick off in Canet d'en Berenguer
From 25 to 29 June, the small municipality next to Sagunto hosts its biggest annual celebration, with traditional bull events, music, paella and a national fire-bull contest on Saturday 27.
Canet d'en Berenguer — 8,297 residents, entirely enclosed within Sagunto's municipal boundary — opens its patron-saint week on 25 June. Bous al carrer (traditional street bull events) anchor the programme: ranches La Morada, Jesús Marcén, Laura Parejo, El Saliner and García Gamón alternate in morning and evening slots through Monday 29 June.
Saturday 27 is the standout day: the II National Emboladores Contest, run by local association Roda i Anella, draws six teams from Turís and Museros (Valencia), Amposta (Catalonia), Colmenar de Oreja (Madrid), Santa Pantaria (Zaragoza) and Sarrión (Teruel). The toro embolado — in which burning balls are fixed to a bull's horns — is regulated in the Valencian Community under Decree 31/2015.
Friday evening features Euforia in concert. Sunday centres on a communal paella lunch at Plaça Félix, organisers providing firewood, rice and oil. The feast day on Monday 29 June moves from an early-morning reveille through solemn mass and midday fireworks to an evening procession. According to El Periódico de Aquí, mayor Pere Antoni called the week central to local identity.