Andalusia Day commemorates de 28 February 1980 referendum in which the Andalusian electorate voted to make Andalusia an autonomous community of Spain. Gaucin town hall celebrates this day with institutional acts, music and a popular paella.

Throughout Easter week, religious ceremonies and processions take place in the village when statues of the village saints are carried in elaborate floats on the shoulders of the different hermandades or brotherhoods. This is an especially attractive time for tourism, which flows into Gaucín every season.

The fiesta consists of running bulls tied by the horns through the streets of the village, while people watch behind barriers or run ahead to avoid the bull´s charge. It is generally led by young men with proven experience and knowledge in handling the rope and the animal.

The Flamenco Festival “del Corcho Valle del Genal” has been declared a Festival of unique tourist interest , by the the Diputación Provincial de Málaga, and it is one of the most famous in the province of Málaga.

 It is celebrated in memory of the livestock fair on the day of the Virgen de las Nieves. Locals, visitors and emigrants return at this time of year to meet up with family and friends, celebrate the festivities with dances, stalls, competitions, parades, fireworks and sporting competitions.

Festivities celebrated with great religious fervour in honour of Santo Niño and San Juan de Dios which begin on the last Sunday in August with a pilgrimage and rociera mass with a traditional choir in finca la Adelfilla, commemorating the apparition of the Child Jesus to San Juan de Dios on his way to Gibraltar in 1536.