Examples
- Spain
- Fiestas del Pilar around 12 October in Zaragoza
- La Mercè around 24 September in Barcelona
- Fallas around 19 March in Valencia
- Bonfires of Saint John around 24 June in Alicante
- San Fermín around 7 July in Pamplona
- Puerto Rico
- Fiestas patronales in Puerto Rico
- El Salvador
- Yucuaquín, El Salvador (and Somerville, MA USA) 4 October "El baile de los negritos" Fiesta Patronal de San Francisco
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