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 Xanguito.
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
20.30 h. Children's correfoc and lighting of the fire by the children's demons of Enfocats, Kinfumfa and Maleïts Encabritats
21 h. Traditional music: ball de bot with the performance of Roada
22 h. Proclamation of the Dimoni Bufó by Cristina Francoli, invited by Federació d’Associacions de Veïns de Palma
10.30pm Correfoc: the gates of hell will open to enjoy the revetla with the dimonis of the city
Collas de dimonis participants:
Associació Cultural Dimonis de Son Sardina (Enfocats)
Associació Cultural Realment Cremats
Associació Kimfumfa
Associació Cultural Encabritats
Associació Cultural Trabucats
Associació es Cau des Boc Negre
Associació Trapalma Incobus
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 Xanguito group
