Each year the Medieval Festival converts the City of Elche into a huge stage set and takes its visitors back to the medieval period, thereby helping them understand the various interesting origins of this more than two-thousand-year-old city. The street market and the free-roaming re-enactments, pasacaglia and fire displays besiege the city in that festive period when there are also a wide range of cultural manifestations such as concerts, shows theatre, recitals, workshops, music seminars and medieval theatre as well as out of season performances of the Mystery Play of Elche in years ending with an even digit, etc.