The night in A Coruña lasts until the wee hours of the morning in pubs or in the open air. Calle Orzán y del Socorro, Campo da Leña, La Marina, Riazor, Ciudad Vieja, Juan Flórez, Matogrande, Monte Alto or Santa Cristina are some of the areas of cafes, pubs and discos that bring variety to the city’s nightlife. Spring brings with it the first rays of sun, which invite to stroll, the music and the terraces to take to the streets. ‘Andar de parranda’ (partying) is an institution from A Coruña, such as tapas and beers with friends or the ‘running’ and the walk with the sunset. The party continues and summer is not summer until San Juan: the shortest night and the longest party. The promenade is closed to traffic and coruñeses and foreigners take streets and sandy areas to jump bonfires, dine on sardines and turn around the ‘churrasco’. Heroine of the city and guardian of the municipal palace, Maria Pita also gives name to the festivities of A Coruña, which occupy the whole month of August and, to make matters worse, include a prelude in July with the ‘Feira das Marabillas’, a back to the Middle Ages in the middle of the Old City whose melody contrasts with the sound of the Noroeste Pop Rock’, which in the eighth month of the year vibrates the Riazor beach and, in recent years, also the emblematic neighborhoods of the city.