One of the most important celebrations in Spain, the festival of Corpus Christi celebrates the Catholic belief of transubstantiation of bread and wine into the body of Christ during Mass.

A variety of special events take place throughout the country.

In Valencia there is a solemn procession, followed by a parade of horses with people dressed up as characters from the Bible. The town also hosts Eucharistic plays dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries.

Barcelona hosts parades of giants and big-headed carnival figures and a "dancing egg" festival, where locals stream water through an eggshell from one of the city's fountains so it appears to be floating, in a 16th-century tradition.

The streets around the cathedral in Cadiz are decorated and covered in aromatic plants and the Catalonian town of Sitges celebrates by decorating some of its streets with floral carpets from grass, rice and carnation petals.

Some more bizarre ceremonies taking place around Spain include the baby-jumping Colacho festival in Castrillo de Murcia. In this bizarre event, men leap over babies dressed as the devil, believing that their evil disappears and the children are cleansed.

Corpus Christi occurs between late May and the middle of June every year, on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday.