San Juan's Casals Festival honours the famous cellist who came to call  Puerto Rico home. It attracts classical musicians of international repute and is one of the Caribbean's major cultural events. Puerto Ricans get baseball fever when the season starts in November, reaching its climax in February.

Practically all Puerto Rican towns celebrate its respective Saint's Day (Fiesta Patronales), is a blend of Catholic icons with Spanish, African and Indian traditions (Taino Indians). Pretty much, its party time with streets full of fiesta, musica, bailes and many in costumes.

One of the best is the Festival of St John the Baptist in San Juan in late June, which wonderfully fuses the religious and the secular. The highlight of the parade is a communal luck-enhancing midnight walk backwards into the sea. Worth a detour are Mayagúez's twinkling La Virgen de la Candelaria in early February and Loíza's jubilant St James Festival, which takes place late July and celebrates the town's multicultural heritage.