Tarifa holds a public consultation on the final Sunday of its Real Feria

The Tarifa City Council has opened the public information period for the procedure to hold a popular consultation regarding the file for the removal of the final Sunday of the Real Feria de Tarifa starting from the year 2027. The announcement, dated October 8, 2026, is published in the Official Gazette of the Government of Andalusia (BOJA) no. 218, of November 11, 2026, within section 5.2 of official announcements, with text no. 13407 and file number PP. 1948/2026.

The insertion appears in the block of city council announcements, the channel through which Andalusian councils provide official publicity of their procedures to the citizenry and potential interested parties. The announcement from Tarifa occupies one page and is limited, according to the published text, to reporting the initiation of the procedure and the opening of the public information phase.

What the BOJA publishes

• Issuing body: Tarifa City Council, within the city councils heading.
• Announcement date: October 8, 2026.
• Publication date: November 11, 2026, in BOJA no. 218.
• Purpose: public information regarding the initiation of the procedure to hold a popular consultation.
• Subject of the consultation: the file for the removal of the final Sunday of the Real Feria de Tarifa.
• Timeframe: the removal is proposed starting from the year 2027.
• Official references: text no. 13407 and PP. 1948/2026.

A procedure that opens the door to a neighborhood decision

The popular consultation is the mechanism by which the municipality transfers a decision of municipal competence to the citizenry, in this case, whether to maintain or eliminate the final Sunday of the Real Feria. The municipal initiation agreement does not resolve the issue: it activates the procedure and submits the file to public information so that allegations and contributions permitted by the process can be formulated.

The announcement published in the BOJA does not detail, in the official text sent to the gazette, the literal terms of the question that would be put to a vote nor the specific calendar of subsequent phases. The reference to the year 2027 places, in any case, the practical effect of the eventual removal in the fair calendar following the current year, without the publication setting a date for the holding of the municipal referendum.

The weight of a traditional event in the local calendar

The final Sunday of the Real Feria de Tarifa is the day around which the closing of the town’s festive calendar is structured, such that any modification affects both the municipal organization and the activity of the sectors that work around the fair: hospitality, commerce, transport, casetas (tents), and services.

The consultation thus turns a scheduling decision into a matter of citizen participation, shifting the responsibility to the neighborhood to pronounce themselves on a tradition with a direct impact on the economic and tourist life of the municipality. File PP. 1948/2026 is henceforth linked to this public debate.

Calendar and next steps

With the public information period open, the Tarifa City Council has the framework to gather allegations before defining the terms of the consultation. The document published in the BOJA does not specify the number of fair days affected, nor the capacity, schedule, or format of the eventual vote, data which must be included in the municipal agreements that complete the procedure.

The relevance for the residents of Tarifa is twofold: the result of the consultation will decide whether the Real Feria maintains its final Sunday starting from 2027, and the process itself will set the precedent for how the municipality resolves a controversy regarding its main festive event through participatory means.

Source: Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA), no. 218, November 11, 2026, section 5.2 Other official announcements, page 6 (official reference: text no. 13407 / PP. 1948/2026).