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San Pedro Feria 2022
The summer feria in San Pedro de Alcantara, Marbella 2022 took place from 17th to 23rd October 202, it is traditionally held on the third week of October from a Monday or Tuesday to a Sunday to coincide with the Saint’s feast day which is 19th October
San Pedro Alcántara celebrated its summer fair in honour of its Patron Saint - San Pedro de Alcantara (1499 to 1562) who was a Franciscan monk. The day of the feast of San Pedro is 19th October. The town was founded by first Marqués del Duero, who created a farming colony here in the early 1860s, naming it after both his favourite saint and his mother, Petra de Alcántara Irigoyen (read San Pedro history).
In 2022 the feria moved to the 80.000 square metre ‘new fairground’ located on the Finca La Caridad estate. In 2020 and 2021 a smaller version of the feria was held on the Boulevard. The previous location from 2015 to 2019 was on a privately owned plot west of on Avenida del Mediterraneo (Nueva Alcantara) to the south of the town centre. Up to 2014 for many years it was held on land on the northern limit of the town just to the west of Avenida Pablo Ruiz Picasso where Edificio Norte now stands. The new Finca la Caridad estate was inaugurated in July 2022 with the smaller Nueva Andalucia district Feria. the council had been for many years working to recover the land which had been in a judicial dispute since the 1990s in the Gil era.
As a novelty for 2022, instead of the traditional parade there was two parades (on Monday a horse parade and on Friday a horse-drawn carriage parade.