CHRISTMAS EVE BONFIRE AT ALBALA

The winter solstice was on the 22nd December this year but every Christmas eve there are bonfires lit all over Spain as a combination of Christian festival and echoes of pagan past, a huge blaze during the longest nights of the year. The one at Albala was a mountainous stack of whole oak trees and brushwood, it went up with a whoosh sending crimson spark patterns into the cold night sky. A perfect start to our Christmas celebrations.