This is the only annual festival I know of which celebrates a town's Punic/Phoenician heritage. I have not been able to attend, but it sounds like fun.
Cartagena, Spain, was a Punic town (Carthago Nova - New Carthage) founded in the third century B.C.E. For more on its historical importance, notably in the Second Punic War, see here. I noted last year's festival here. Follow the links from there (plus, more recently, here) for more on the archaeology of the site and notices of past festivals.
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