Famous metal festival in Villena, Spain
Spain is famous for its food, architecure, the language and much more but few people outside Spain know about the famous metal music festival “Leyendas del Rock Festival” that takes place in Villena and in 4 days it gathers the most popular European bands with a 4 days ticket that costs only 65 Euros. Usually for that ticket price you are able to see 3 famous bands or so but now we are talking about more than 30 bands and a free camping area! The festival is located in the Municipal Sports Villena to 59 kilometers from Alicante, 108 km from Murcia and 364 km from Madrid.
Villena is a city of Valencia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the province of Alicante, bordered to the west by Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia and the north with the province of Valencia. According to Wikipedia, Villena is a city in Spain, in the Valencian Community. It is located at the northwest part of Alicante, and borders to the west with Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia, to the north with the province of Valencia and to the east and south with the province of Alicante. It is the capital of the comarca of the Alto Vinalopó.
Main touristic sights
- Castle of la Atalaya, built by the Moors in the 11th century.
- Municipal Palace
- Saint James Church, a late Gothic Catholic church.
- Archaeological Museum. Founded by archaeologist José María Soler García, it keeps the Treasure of Villena, the most important golden finding in the Iberian Peninsula and the second one in Europe, just behind that from the Royal Graves in Mycenae, Greece.
Tickets are purchased online through the festival website, where you can also see the usual physical points of sale [ available here ]
-Prices: € 65 (+ expenses) Advance – € 70 at the box office // Single days: 40 € Advance Online – 45 € at the box office.
– On August 5 it has free entry .
PARTICIPATING BANDS (5,6, 7, 8 August)
Amaranthe
Backyard Babies
Destruction
Death DTA Tours
Gamma Ray
Overkill
Sabaton
Sonata Arctica
Holy Land
Vita Imana
Within Temptation
Alberto Rionda Alchemy
Doro
Edguy
Saratoga
Orphaned Land
Refuge (Rage)
Rock Icons
The Darkness
Turisas
Warcry
Epica
Finntroll
Kreator
Milds
Lust
Howitzer
Satyricon
Sôber
Sodom
Tankard
Blues Pills
Doria
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Jorge Salán
Kataklysm
Opera Magna
Rosa Negra
Mole
VIL
Angel Witch
Asphalt
Azrael
Celtibeerian
Chinese Banzai
Freedom Call
Reckless Love
Paw
Zenobia
Alestorm
Beethoven R
In Mute
Sherpa
StormZone
Tako
Van Canto
Vhäldemar
Xandria
Gigatron
Medina Azahara
Oker
Rosendo
Grave
The Storm
Information: http://www.leyendasdelrockfestival.com
