San Agustín, Felanitx

During the weeks surrounding 28 August, Felanitx’s most popular festival is celebrated. Its origins lie in the celebrations of the friars of the convent of St. Augustine in honour of St. Augustine of Hippo. Over time and with the opportunity of the dates, these festivals gradually took over the patron saint’s festival, Santa Margalida. Thus, the street parties, known throughout Mallorca, are celebrated in the Parque Municipal de la Torre, the weekend before and the same week that August 28 falls.
On the day of the saint, numerous groups take to the streets, among which the group El Coso stands out, where its followers (coseros) worship a quica (small hen) that is stuffed on a stick. It is also famous that the “coseros” subdue the authorities by making them pass under a canopy, as was the custom during the old regime to make Franco enter the cathedrals under a canopy.