Feria (festival)

During this feria, the city hosts not only bullfights, but hundreds of casetas (private party tents) with flamenco dancing, and a large modern fairground with rides and Ferris Wheel and food courts selling paella, manzanilla, and grilled meats.

[3] The city of Malaga offers the Feria de Málaga in August,[4] as do virtually all towns in Spain's autonomous regions with first-, second- or third-category arenas.

In the southwestern and southeastern parts of France, people quickly confounded taurine feria and festival.

The popularity of these feasts and the media coverage that was made favored the substitution of the word fêtes by feria.

Many municipalities - including those who hold no bullfight - as well have renamed their annual patron saint's festivals into ferias.