Overview

• Traditional solstice rituals—lighting bonfires, jumping over flames and midnight sea swims—are uniting revelers from Galicia to the Valencian coast
• Distinct regional customs include Catalonia’s Flama del Canigó torch relay, Valencian beach bonfires stocked with 25 tonnes of wood and Galicia’s “noite meiga” festivities
• Major urban centres anticipate record attendance, with A Coruña expecting 150,000 visitors, Valencia more than 80,000 and Barcelona’s beaches filled by four-day holiday crowds
• Local councils have enforced fire bans in protected areas, prohibited beach camping and nighttime bathing, and deployed reinforced police, firefighting and medical units
• Public services are running at peak capacity, with Barcelona extending metro operations all night, deploying 528 cleaning staff and 240 vehicles, and Valencia adding hundreds of portable toilets and waste-collection crews