On Friday the 27th of June the weekly art and craft market that is being held every Saturday and Sunday by the sea front at the end of Avenida Jaime I in the port of Jávea, will make place for the traditional summer fair in the same spot (see Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/rx5uWDjHiYs or search for “Feria de Artesanía Jávea”), opening every evening till the end of August.

This is the twelfth year running that Amata (the regional craft association) joins forces with the local shopkeepers to liven up the promenade along the sea front with a craft fair.  A real craft fair, with real craft workers who make what they sell and hope to sell what they make.  Not for nothing has Amata chosen the slogan “Artesanía de Autor®” – which means that what you see is made by the man or woman on the stall – nothing imported, nothing made by friends or from a small factory.

Amata was set up in 1998 and remains true to its original philosophy, which is that only goods made by the people on the stalls can be sold on the craft fairs it organises. That is why more and more aficionados have come to appreciate this special quality – the quality of a gallery even if it is sold in the street from a stall. Several stalls come for the whole summer, others just a few weeks so as to combine a holiday at the beach with the possibility of earning a living.  It’s a varied show, week by week.  Never boring.

A visit to the art and craft market can be combined with a stroll to the port (with its fishing boats and fish market) and back along the promenade with its attractive bars and restaurants, shops and terraces, to enjoy the cool sea breezes and watch all the other visitors walking, jogging and cycling along.  And, if you like modern architecture, you can have a look at the Virgen de Loreto church, a concrete structure shaped like a ship!  You can even get to the market in the tourist train that runs every hour between the Arenal beach of Jávea and the Old Town: there is a stop right at the fair!

The art and craft market starts on Friday the 21st of June and opens every evening till the 2nd of September (except for a few days when the locals celebrate their fiestas) and opens at 7 in the evening till midnight.

News about the fair is published on Instagram (@javea.artesania.amata), Facebook (@feriaartesaniajavea), and at https://www.puebloartesano.es/javea.

Come and see for yourself the difference with other beach fairs!