Festival of el Melón Activity · Villaconejos, Las Vegas, Madrid Image of Villaconejos, not of the place itself. A celebration that every 12 October joins the Hispanic Day holiday to the town's melon-growing tradition, with bullfighting events, fireworks and the handing out of the piel de sapo melons that made the municipality famous across the comarca. Photo: Julián Gimeno (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Villaconejos