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...The latter begin on the Friday before Palm Sunday and continue until Easter Sunday, and are accompanied by classical music concerts across the city, including organ recitals in the church of San Ginés....
...However, pay too much attention to this fiesta of kitsch and you could be left feeling as jittery as a seven-year-old after too much cake at a party....
...Another signature, the crab relleno, is Siy’s take on the stuffed crab dishes usually served at fiestas and gatherings in the Philippines, taken to the next level....
...– and the sink-into seating layered with cushions between potted palms is chic and modern....
...It seemed like a pretty dangerous thing to organise (a palm tree caught fire briefly). Dangerous?...
...As we pushed into the hinterland, everything changed: there were vineyards and plots of maize, whitewashed farmhouses with geraniums crowded on their window ledges and palm trees in their back gardens....
...We have started in Zafra, a country town with a strong flavour of the Spanish south in its whitewashed houses, columned galleries, and cobbled squares planted with palm trees....
...“No one is desperate,” says one reveller, when asked if the government-sponsored fiesta might become a protesta....
...I saw palm trees and the beach and started to perk up. When I finally emerged from my hostel I thought: “Right, I have to buy a car and a mobile phone and rent a flat.”...
...Instead I was in the middle of the biggest fiesta of the year in Las Palmas, the biggest city in the Canary Islands....
...The wood and palm-leaf homes nearest the water were swept away when the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami struck the coast at the end of 2004....
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