Overview
- Badajoz rejected neighbors’ request to shift Valdepasillas’ farewell parade to avenida Sinforiano Madroñero, keeping the route on Sunday, February 22 at 13:00 via Tomás Romero de Castilla, Godofredo Ortega y Muñoz and Jacinta García Hernández to Plaza de La Molineta, and it will keep 2026 artefactos rules unchanged.
- With no companies bidding to manage paid seating, Badajoz will again install about 3,000 free chairs for the 10-hour comparsas parade after unsuccessful tenders in 2024 and 2025.
- The Aulas de Carnaval school program remains on hold after the Intervention blocked the previous format, and the council plans a new public tender to relaunch it as youth groups have fallen from 28 in 2020 to seven.
- Valencia will hold the exaltations at the Palau de la Música, with Carmen Prades on Friday at 22:00 and Marta Mercader on Saturday at 17:30, followed by fireworks from Pirotecnia Alto Palancia and Pirotecnia Dragón.
- Xàtiva stages the exaltations of Marta Díaz Martínez on Saturday and Ada Domínguez Diego on Sunday and has opened the process to declare the Baixada de Sant Josep a Bien de Relevancia Local.