The Feria in Malaga

Probably the biggest party of the year in Spain, the Feria in Malaga lasts nine days. For 2008 it is celebrated from midnight on the 15th August and the Feria lasts until the 24th August and originated as a celebration of Malaga's incorporation in to the realm of the Castilians in the fourteen hundreds.
 It is actually not a Feria in the real sense as there is no horse fair.
One year it was opened by Antonio Banderos who is of course from Malaga himself.
We took the service bus from Nerja bus station to Malaga.
During the day there is street entertainment for kids with a  punch and judy stall, face painting, mini circus' and plenty of bouncy castles. Street entertainers on stilts kept us all laughing with their antics.
The horse driven carriages that normally abound in Malaga are all decked out in finery, there was even one pulled by eight horses.
In the town It seemed as if every bar was competing with every other bar to see how loud they could play Spanish dance or disco music, with thousands of merry people dancing in the street, seemingly fuelled by large quantities of sweet Malaga wine. Hundreds of people were in traditional Spanish dress,
On an evening everything happens at The Palacia de Feria, and there is a shuttle bus service from the town.

(ps see if you can find the one legged man in the photographs)