240 - Celebrating San Juan in A Coruña, Spain

We'd never heard of the San Juan festival until we arrived in A
Coruña, where it's the biggest event of the year -- and then we got
to experience it first-hand. It has roots in pagan solstice
celebrations and summer cleansing rituals, and is celebrated all
over Spain. In Alicante the modern celebration started in the 1920s
and involves burning intricate structures created by local artists.
In A Coruña, just one of these structures is burned, representing
the major events that have happened in the city during the previous
year. Read more at
http://indietravelpodcast.com/spain/san-juan-festival-coruna/