Sant Nicolau Festival (El Toro)
The Sant Nicolau festivities in Es Mercadal close the island's patron-saint calendar — 'they lock the festival season'. They blend reveille, parade and flag offering with the horseback ascent to Monte Toro, where the riders' mass and the jaleo take place.
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- Es Mercadal y Monte Toro
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- Es Mercadal and Monte Toro: the heart and the roof of Menorca The village at the centre of the island and the mountain that crowns it. An unhurried guide to Es Mercadal, home of the carquinyols, and to Monte Toro, Menorca's great viewpoint.
- The Menorcan horse, the island's dark soul Jet black, with a baroque bearing and a starring role in the festivals. A portrait of a native breed that rears up on its hind legs in the middle of the crowd.