For years now, the tradition on this special night is that people go to the beaches of Mallorca to welcome the summer and celebrate the magic night of Saint John (Sant Joan). A series of rituals are staged, which, according to the legend, give luck all throughout the year to the people that perform them. One of them is the traditional jumping over small bonfires.
In Palma it is celebrated, in the Parc de la Mar and Ses Voltes, the Revetla de Sant Joan with a firework display known as correfoc and in which 7 collas of demons. After the show performance of the group Emboirats.
Program:
18.45 h. Hell workshops: children's activities for the little ones to participate in the Revetla. Workshops to paint faces, popular and cooperative games, demoniac photocall and other activities
20.15 h. Children's correfoc and lighting of the fire by the children's demons of Enfocats and Kinfumfa
21 h. Traditional music: ball de bot with the performance of Al-Mayurqa
22 h. Proclamation by the president of the Federació d'Associacions de Veïns de Palma and proclamation by Dimoni Bufó, writer Pere Morey i Servera
10.30pm Correfoc: the gates of hell will open to enjoy the revetla with the dimonis of the city
Collas de dimonis participants:
Assoc. Cultural Dimonis de Son Sardina, Enfocats
Assoc. Cultural Realment Cremats
Assoc. Kinfumfa
Assoc. Cultural Ratapinyada, Endimoniats
Assoc. Cultural Trabucats
Assoc. Es Cau des Boc Negre
Assoc. Trapalma Trafoc
Beasts of fire:
Assoc. of Veïnats Pla de Sant Jordi, Drac i Guardians of Sant Jordi
L'Òliba de la Real
It's Drac de na Coca
24:00 h. Musical performance of the Emboirat group
