The Carnival, an eminently popular festival that precedes the time of Lent, becomes unique in Malaga for its multicultural, colorful and spontaneous character, with celebrations both in the Historic Center and in the rest of the city's neighborhoods, which host during the Malaga warm winter hundreds of recreational activities. The Carnival always had a great roots in Malaga although it ended up disappearing in 1935 due to the difficult socio-political circumstances of the time. After the dictatorship, the party was celebrated again with renewed vigor.

The party, promoted by the Citizen's Carnival Foundation, begins in Malaga with meetings of groups of songs, murgas, troupes, quartets and choirs at the Cervantes Theater in a contest in which groups come from different points of the province as well as other places in Andalusia. The official group contest, prologue of the street party, is characterized by good humor, laughter, spark, criticism ... the annual chronicle of local, provincial, regional and national events at the blow of good voices and with the guitars, the pitos and the drums for its best staging.