During "Fiestas de la Zarza" many events and activities for all ages such as contests, sport games and championships, etc., take place in the afternoons and evenings thanks to the "peñas" and to "Villamañán's City Hall". Also, every year art galleries from town show exclusive and private artwork owned and/or created by people from Villamañán for a limited time only, while "Fiestas de la Zarza" last. The most famous of all events that take place during these holidays is "Concurso de Paellas" or the "Paella Contest", in which all "peñas" cook "paellas" and compete for the price of the best paella of them all. People can go and freely eat as much "paella" as they wish. This event takes place right next to a private swimming pool property of an apartment complex known as "El Palacio" and it is infamous because every year, it has become a tradition that almost every visitor to the "Paella Contest" ends up in the swimming pool, by their own will or if not, being thrown in by others. It is also a big tradition that every evening and night during "Fiestas de la Zarza" different bands from all over Spain play in "Plaza Mayor" until the morning hours. Two nights during "Fiestas de la Zarza" there's a fireworks show.