We reached Javier Sempere in Alicante, Spain during the peak of his country’s preeminent festival–the Bonfires of Saint John. Held during midsummer, Alicante’s raucous lineup of parties, rituals and street dancing is the largest such bonfire bash in Spain.
“The whole city is on fire tonight,” says Sempere from his recently renovated three-story home with its handsome facade. It was the evening of la cremà, the burning, when fanciful effigies symbolizing the past were being torched in the streets, squares and on the beach.
Flames glow beneath a typical “hoguera”—satirical structures made mainly
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