The party for the Angel at Bellver Castle

The pancaritat (bread with charity) pilgrimages should strictly speaking take place on Angel Sunday - the day of the Guardian Angel.

Once upon a time, the Guardian Angel was the patron of Palma, hence why the La Lonja guild building from the fifteenth century has a sculpture of the Angel. Saint Sebastian was to eventually replace the Angel in 1652 many years after his bone performed the miracle of ridding Palma of the plague.

Few of these parties are actually celebrated on Angel Sunday, so as Palma's is one of the few, it attracts special attention. The day out at Bellver Castle also happens to be by far the grandest of the parties. The pilgrimage with the Angel to the castle is the centrepiece of several hours of the day and starts at 11am. Events with include human towers and a K-pop performance. The Palma bus company, EMT, lays on a free service to the castle - departures every ten minutes - from C. Camilo José Cela.

Programme

Climb to Bellver Castle

• 11am: Ascent from the gates of the Castle

Road in front of the castle

• 10.30am Chess activities
• 11am Gathering of Gegants, Capgrossos i del Drac de na Coca (Giants, large figure heads and Drac de na Coca)
• 11am Exhibitions of the associations of the Federació d'Associacions de Veïns de Palma and of platforms and entities
• 11.30am Welcome from the xeremiers to the marxaires (bagpipers)

Entrance bridge

• 11am to 1.30pm Exhibition of historical re-enactment material by the group Milites Maioricarum

Castell enclosure

• 11am to 1.30pm Historical monologues with important characters from the history of the Castle

Inner courtyard of the Castle

• 11.30am  Concert by Es Fortí Choir
• 12 noon Concert Son Dameto Choir
• 4pm Human towers "Castellera" 

Parking area

• 11am to 1.30pm Children's games, workshops, slingshot shooting...
• 11.15am Trencaclosques 
• 12.15pm K-pop performance with the group K-Rapinya
• 3pm Line dancing
• 4pm Dancing with Calabruix

Palma Police Unit

• 11am to 1.30pm Open doors Mounted Police Stables

Angel parade 

1.30pm Start and finish at the Castle's entrance stairs