Fiestas de San Cayetano in Madrid and Alicante
Fiestas de San Cayetano in Madrid and Alicante is held on August 7. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. Help us
The Fiestas de San Cayetano is a festival celebrated in the streets near the parish church of San Cayetano (Madrid) in honor of San Cayetano de Thiene. They are the first festivities of a 'trilogy' (along with the festivities of La Paloma and San Lorenzo) that is celebrated in the month of August in the neighborhood of Lavapiés. It is celebrated on August 7 (date of the death of San Cayetano in Naples), but there are usually partial celebrations in the days around, along the streets of the neighborhood. One of the most popular is the adornment of streets and balconies peripheral to the church.