Sant Bartomeu in Sóller

Sant Bartomeu is Sóller's patron saint, and his fiestas fill the second half of August, with the 24th as the big day. In the morning at 10:00 the cavallets (hobby-horse dancers) and cossiers parade from the rectory down to the square and dance in front of Sant Bartomeu church; at 10:30 there is solemn mass, with their dance during the offering, and at 11:30 they dance again in the square. At night, at 22:30, the Gran Nit de Foc in Plaça de la Constitució closes the fiestas: a fire show with devils by the Esclatabutzes, the Sóller group founded in 1996. On the eve there is a revetla (street party) with music in front of the town hall. Tip for the Nit de Foc: long-sleeved cotton clothes, a cap and earplugs; with small children, stay at the sides of the square and don't put them on your shoulders.