Virgin de los Desamparados

Mare de Déu dels Desamparats...

Virgin de los Desamparados is one of two Patron Saints of Valencia, the other being San Vincente Martir.

The Virgin is also know as Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados - (Our Lady of the Forsaken) and is honored and celebrated throughout the month of May. The main celebration takes place on the second sunday in May. The night before this beautiful event a concert is held in Plaça de la Verge/Plaza de la Virgin.

The celebrations then move on to the Turía Gardens (old Turía riverbed), where there are firework displays and traditional singing and dancing.

If you're up early on Sunday morning you'll be in time for the open air Mass which takes place at 5.00am. This is then followed by another Mass (Misa de Infantes) at 8.00am.

At 10.30am the statue of the Virgin de los Desamparados makes her journey under a heavy shower of flower petals from the Basilica to the Cathedral.

At 2.00pm there is a mascletá (fireworks) and at 5.00pm the Virgin is again carried amid a blanket of flower petals through the Old Quarter of Valencia.