Medieval market & street theatre · Vila Murada of Elche
For sponsor delegations, brand activators and attending teams taking part in Festival Medieval de Elche (Elche/Elx, late November and early December), with an artisan market in the Vila Murada, Templar processions, street theatre, Moorish-Christian re-enactments linked to the Misteri d'Elx, and a brand-activation operation that combines hospitality in the historic quarter and pop-ups in the Plaça de Baix. EUR + 21% VAT via FACe / SII (AEAT) and 24–48 h delivery from the Madrid hub.
Festival Medieval de Elche is one of the most established historical re-enactments on the Alicante winter calendar: the walled Vila Murada quarter is transformed across a long weekend into a medieval market with artisans, ephemeral taverns, Templar processions, street-theatre performances, old-craft workshops and a stage programme that evokes the Reconquista and the Misteri d'Elx — the sacred lyrical drama inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It runs between the last weekend of November and the first weekend of December, around the Venida de la Virgen dates, and draws families, medieval-history enthusiasts, school groups and cultural tourism from across the Valencian Community.
For sponsor delegations and brand-activation teams the operational challenge is to work with an open-air festival in a very compact historic quarter: floor-staff apparel that holds up to Mediterranean December evenings, merchandise that fits a family audience but also a culturally literate public, and evening hospitality usually set up in the Plaça de Baix or in a courtyard activated for the purpose. The briefs we usually receive combine mid-layers and gilets for the floor team, fans and tote bags for visitors, premium gift sets for the actors of the Moorish-Christian re-enactment, and corporate material for the collaborating artisans.
The Madrid production hub handles the entire order and delivers by road (SEUR, Correos Express, DHL) to the named consignee in Elche — sponsor's office, reference hotel in the centre, the Regidoria de Turisme office or the municipal warehouse in the historic quarter. The B2B invoice is issued in EUR with 21% VAT added via FACe / SII (AEAT); for intra-EU clients with a valid VIES number reverse-charge applies without Spanish VAT; for UK and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the corresponding EU directive article.
Hooded sweatshirts and padded gilets in earthy colours with single-colour screen-print or embroidery, thermal capes for the night procession team, caps with the sponsor's monogram for the welcome team, and waxed-leather aprons for the ephemeral taverns in the market.
Raw-linen tote bags with discreet screen-print and a medieval motif, 500 ml thermal bottles engraved with the festival monogram, pocket fans with a Templar motif, faux-leather drawstring pouches, and access lanyards for the walled precinct — 300 to 2,000 units depending on stand volume.
Compact hard-cover notebooks with screen-print for the old-craft workshops, pen + inkwell sets for the calligraphy corner, collectible heraldic pins for the family audience, and USB sticks with the Misteri d'Elx recording for the sacred-music enthusiasts — 50–150 premium units per edition.
Hard-cover premium notebooks stamped with the sponsor's seal, gift sets with D.O. Alicante wine and artisan turrón in medieval-style packaging, limited editions of Misteri d'Elx books with personalised bookmark, and named delivery to the Basílica de Santa María dressing room or the reference hotel in the centre.
The brand operation at Festival Medieval de Elche is usually coordinated between Madrid, Alicante city and Elche itself: the Madrid production hub handles the entire order and delivers by road to the named consignee — sponsor's office in Alicante or Murcia, reference hotel in central Elche, the Regidoria de Turisme office or the municipal warehouse in the historic quarter. The usual delivery window is 24–48 hours with prior appointment, since the festival runs in late November and the historic-quarter road access has heavy-vehicle restrictions during build-up.
We keep reserved stock at the Madrid hub for the recurring items — tees, tote bags and fans with generic artwork — that we can produce and ship in 7–10 working days. For pieces with personalised embroidery (sponsor's monogram, limited-edition number) the window moves to 12–14 working days. For sponsors with bespoke hospitality pieces (gift boxes, numbered Misteri book sets) we recommend closing the order 4–5 weeks before the opening market.
The B2B invoice is issued in EUR with 21% VAT added via FACe / SII (AEAT); for intra-EU clients with a valid VIES number reverse-charge applies without Spanish VAT; for UK and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the corresponding EU directive article. Every delivery is confirmed with a signed delivery note on arrival and, when the client requests it, with a photo of the unloaded material in the Plaça de Baix.
For high-volume batches we run industrial shrink-wrap options that reduce unloading time on arrival, which matters when the consignee is a hotel, a fairground caseta or a municipal warehouse receiving the material on the build-up day itself. On minimum order quantities, polos and tote bags start at 50 units with single-colour screen-print; eco bottles and premium notebooks need a 100-unit minimum to keep marking consistency; gift boxes and numbered sets need a 25–30-unit minimum, enough to cover the sponsor hospitality set and the visiting-speaker kits. For intra-EU destinations with a valid VIES number the document is issued without Spanish VAT via reverse-charge; for UK and extra-EU destinations the invoice is issued without VAT citing the relevant EU directive article, and the shipment is processed with an export DUA when the batch exceeds the declared threshold.
One part of the operation we handle with particular care is the post-event traceability: at the end of each edition we hand the sponsor a photo of the unloaded material at the named consignee, a delivery note signed by the receiver and, on request, a short report with units delivered per recipient and the pieces that returned to Madrid due to surplus or a date change. This traceability lets the sponsorship team close the merch ROI with the same rigour as the stand ROI, and it leaves a clean record for the internal audit and the next sponsorship-budget justification.
For sponsors that operate a multi-event calendar across Spain — gastronomy congress, wine week, regional fair, tourism summit, cultural festival — we keep a year-round reserved stock of polos, tote bags and lanyards with neutral motifs that can be re-personalised with a new monogram per event, reducing the lead time from 12–14 working days down to 5–7 working days for repeat orders. This rolling-stock model is particularly useful for sponsorship teams with several Spain editions in the year and for the cross-country packs that combine the Madrid and Barcelona scenes in the same season. On the supplier side we run a continuous audit of raw-material partners (cotton, cork, ceramic, paper) and prefer GOTS-, FSC- and PEFC-certified sources so that short lead times never cancel out the long ethics of the materials.
Historically the last weekend of November and the first weekend of December in the Vila Murada of Elche, around the Venida de la Virgen and the Misteri d'Elx dates. Exact dates for each edition are confirmed in the Elche Town Hall cultural agenda and on the municipal site.
Yes, to a named consignee: sponsor's office in Alicante or Murcia, reference hotel in central Elche, the Regidoria de Turisme office or the municipal warehouse in the historic quarter. For sponsors with multiple recipients we consolidate to a single hub address and the client's internal team distributes.
21% VAT via FACe / SII (AEAT). For intra-EU clients with a valid VIES number reverse-charge applies without Spanish VAT; for UK and non-EU clients the invoice is issued without VAT citing the corresponding EU directive article.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps sponsoring companies, brand activators and delegations prepare their own merch for the festival. It does not organise, sponsor or represent Festival Medieval de Elche, the Elche Town Hall or the Basílica de Santa María.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier for companies that take part in Festival Medieval de Elche. This page helps those teams prepare their own merch for the festival; it does not represent Festival Medieval de Elche, the Elche Town Hall, the Regidoria de Turisme or the Basílica de Santa María where the Misteri d'Elx is preserved.