Saint John's Eve (Noche de San Juan)
23 June 2026 — Leap over the flame and make a wish – the night is short!
Saint John's Eve (Noche de San Juan) is celebrated in Spain on the night of 23 to 24 June, the eve of the feast day of Saint John the Baptist. The festival blends with much older customs around the summer solstice, the shortest night of the year in the northern hemisphere, which falls around 21 June. The best-known tradition is the bonfire, especially on beaches. People gather by the sea, light fires, and many jump over the flames, believed to cleanse and bring good luck. Wishes are often written on paper and thrown into the fire, and some people bathe in the sea at midnight. In Catalonia, bonfires, sweet cocas (flat pastries) and fireworks are part of the night, while in Alicante huge sculptures of wood and cardboard are burned during the Hogueras de San Juan. Similar customs exist in many other countries. So one of the shortest nights of the year is welcomed with light on the ground beneath the summer sky.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver figure of a wave made of pale glowing dots and thin connecting lines, like a constellation, leaping in an arc over a small bonfire drawn in the same starry points
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