Since the Brotherhood of San Roque was created in 1698, more than 300 years have passed. More than enough time for the descendants of those who organized the first patron saint festivities to be able to perfect them until they were recognized as “of national tourist interest“, as they did in 2006.

Indeed, today there are few people who have not heard of the famous Water Festival, held every August 16. With its town crier, its fire trucks and its more sui generis gadgets to wet the neighbor, the water festival begins when the saint is collected in his chapel, around noon, and ends no earlier than four in the afternoon, more than enough time to leave everything, and everyone, under water.

But San Roque is more, the very transfer of the saint from the parish church to the chapel, free concerts, usually in the park of A Xunqueira, where there is also a craft fair. An international clown festival, the Festiclown, a week of cinema, the Revenidas Festival, the Naval Combat show, the festival of the renowned Carril Clam and the Noite das Meigas.