{"id":12363,"date":"2025-11-21T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:43:01","slug":"tamborrada-san-sebastian-spanien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/spain\/basque-country\/tamborrada-san-sebastian-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamborrada, San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spanien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamborrada is a major annual festival held in the city of San Sebasti\u00e1n (Donostia), located in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Celebrated on 20 January, the day honors Saint Sebastian, the city\u2019s patron saint, and is known for its continuous drumming processions, elaborate uniforms, and lively public participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamborrada is one of the most emblematic cultural celebrations in San Sebasti\u00e1n. Over a 24-hour period, the entire city is filled with the rhythms of drums and barrels, performed by thousands of participants dressed in traditional costumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tradition dates back to the 19th century, when townspeople waiting at the fountains drummed on their water barrels to mock the soldiers marching through the walled city. Most of the music, including the March of San Sebasti\u00e1n, was composed by Raimundo Sarriegui in the second half of the 19th century, and the drummers have worn Napoleonic-era uniforms since the 1880s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Datum und Dauer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival takes place every year on 20 January, a public holiday in San Sebasti\u00e1n. It begins at midnight on the night of 19 to 20 January in Constitution Square (Plaza de la Constituci\u00f3n) and lasts exactly 24 hours, until midnight at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Standort<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamborrada is celebrated throughout the city of San Sebasti\u00e1n, but the main events occur in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Altstadt (Parte Vieja)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verfassungsplatz, der zentrale Ort f\u00fcr die Er\u00f6ffnungs- und Abschlusszeremonie<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verschiedene Stadtviertel, die jeweils ihre eigenen lokalen Trommelgruppen und Paraden organisieren.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Das Festival erstreckt sich \u00fcber die ganze Stadt, und Trommelgruppen marschieren durch zahlreiche Stra\u00dfen und Pl\u00e4tze.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hauptaktivit\u00e4ten<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Raising of the Flag &#8211; At midnight, the mayor raises the city flag in Constitution Square while the drummers of the Gaztelubide gastronomic society, who have opened the festival since 1934, play the March of San Sebasti\u00e1n. This marks the official start of the festival.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drum Companies (Tamborradas) &#8211; Throughout the day, dozens of drum companies composed of adults parade through the city. Performers typically wear two types of costumes:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Soldaten, inspiriert von Milit\u00e4runiformen des 19. Jahrhunderts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fassspieler als K\u00f6che verkleidet und Wassertr\u00e4gerinnen (aguadoras), in Erinnerung an die Einwohner an den alten Brunnen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children\u2019s Tamborrada &#8211; Around midday, about 5,000 schoolchildren march through the city center in the Tamborrada Infantil, held since 1927 and now the largest parade of the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abschlusszeremonie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festival ends at midnight in a packed Constitution Square, where the tamborrada of the Uni\u00f3n Artesana society, the oldest in the city, plays as the flag is lowered; at the same moment, flags are lowered across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kosten und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die Teilnahme an Stra\u00dfenveranstaltungen und Paraden ist kostenlos. Alle \u00f6ffentlichen Zeremonien, einschlie\u00dflich der Flaggenhissung und -einholung, sind f\u00fcr alle zug\u00e4nglich. F\u00fcr den Besuch der offiziellen Freiluftveranstaltungen werden keine Eintrittskarten ben\u00f6tigt.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Sebasti\u00e1ns 24-st\u00fcndiges Trommelfest am 20. Januar: Tausende Trommler, als Soldaten und K\u00f6che verkleidet, ziehen von Mitternacht bis Mitternacht durch die Stadt.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,387,961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basque-country","category-events","category-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16838,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/16838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}