Valencia Weekend: March 26-29 | Palm Sunday, Carnaval de Ruzafa & Live Music
Buen finde! The post-Fallas dust has barely settled, but the festival calendar is already filling up. Valencia’s weekend events include the start of Semana Santa Marinera and the rescheduled Carnaval de Ruzafa, alongside a packed live music program across the city.
Remember: Clocks change for Daylight Saving Time this Sunday.
Festivals & Traditions
Semana Santa Marinera returns to Cabanyal and the surrounding maritime neighbourhoods for its annual Holy Week processions. Valencia’s unique maritime holy week is one of the most visually distinctive Easter celebrations in Spain. The brotherhoods here trace their roots back centuries with traditions that evoke the seafaring livelihoods that define this part of Valencia. It starts with the Palm Sunday procession this week.
Semana Santa Marinera – Visit Valencia
Meanwhile, Carnaval de Ruzafa has a new confirmed date this weekend, expect costumes, pasacalles, and live music spilling out into the streets.
Carnaval de Ruzafa 2026 – Visit Valencia
Music & Performance
A strong weekend for live music. The headline pick is Un Lago de Conciertos: Spring 2026 — Berklee Valencia’s spring concert series, and worth planning your weekend around. Also on: AL DUAL + Los Coronas bring their blues and surf rock to La Pèrgola at the Marina, one of the city’s best open-air stages. At Loco Club, singer-songwriter Sam Blasucci shares the bill with folk artist Tessa Heath Fleur for a more intimate night out. And Jardí Electronic returns to Parc Malilla for its outdoor electronic sessions.
For a new twist on tradition, Le Parody mixes flamenco with electronic and jazz as part of the Posar la veu vocal cycle at IVAM. Classical fans should note the free Concerts al MuVIM 2026: this weekend, the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of Valencia plays Stravinsky, Mozart, and Janácek in one of the city’s best cultural spaces. At Palau de la Musica this weekend, pianist Boris Giltburg will play all of Beethoven’s sonatas in a special concert series.
It’s also a big weekend for dance. Les Arts hosts the National Dance Company as they perform NumEros, contemporary pieces set to classical music. La Nau also stages a new work by María Muñoz and Mónica Valenciano, key figures in Spain’s dance scene. If you want to join in yourself, grab your dancing shoes and head to La Rambleta for a Friday night of swing jazz and dance with the Barrettjazz Ensemble and Black Bottom swing studio.
Arts & Exhibitions
Take a wander down to the City of Arts and Sciences, and you’ll find the towering sculpture works of Korean artist Park Eun Sun, inspired by the double helix of DNA. His exhibition opens this weekend until October.
Genoma y estructura escultórica by Park Eun Sun
Shiras Gallery opens a new exhibition this week featuring two local artists, Cristina Gamon and Adriana Berges, whose work explores what lies beyond the edges of the canvas.
Cristina Gamon y Adriana Berges miran más allá de la pintura en Shiras Galería – Valencia Plaza
Also worth your time: a profile of French artist Choun Vilayleck, whose exhibition is currently on at Galeria del Tossal in El Carmen until May.
Source of the Week
Berklee Valencia — Not a publication, but an excellent window into the city’s musical life. The Valencia campus of the Boston-based college hosts concerts, masterclasses, and performances throughout the year, many of them open to the public, as this weekend’s Un Lago de Conciertos shows.
