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Luminarias (Bonfires)
In Monterey, California, the whole city comes out for Las Posadas, and in San Antonio, Texas, a posada is held during the Fiesta de las Luminarias (Festival of the Bonfires) that includes a procession on the Paso del Rio (river pass).
Don't forget Woodstock 1999 --the concert of "peace and love" that ended in a literal blaze of glory when in an hours-long tribute to the original Woodstock, the mob started ripping down vendor booths and anything else that would burn and piling it onto the bonfires scattered about the scene.
Highlights from the melee included: 12 tractor-trailers set on fire, impromptu stripteases, giant bonfires with people leaping through the flames, looting of T-shirt vendors' booths, smashed ATMs, and a food fight with liberated soft pretzels.
Not to be confused with farolitos, luminarias are small bonfires, and the custom of lighting them dates back to the Roman history of Spain.