Husband and I have had our centuries old house in central Soller, Mallorca, Spain, for 22 years, living here off and on as he sang in concerts throughout Europe and I did sound recording for him and others while also on-line consulting and goofing off.
The festival of Es Firo now on here today and tomorrow is the oldest battle reenactment in the world, and has been carried out almost every year for over 4.5 centuries. It is simply amazingly mindboggling. Check it out. The town was tiny and isolated from support, but fiercely independent. They plotted a trap to catch marauding Turkish pirates and slaughtered almost all of them.