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   - Descent of the river Bullent: it is celebrated on a Saturday before Carnival, with hand crafted boats designed to protect the environment as much as possible. This activity was included in the festive schedule in 1986.

   - Day of the Crosta (Tuesday of Carnival before Ash Wednesday). The “arròs en Crosta” has become our typical dish par excellence.
   - Carnival in schools: Friday afternoon. All schools go off into Pla of the Font to celebrate Carnival with music and games.
   - Night of Carnival, Saturday: Fiesta and dance costume dress dance around the town. In the years 1981-1982 the Pego’s Ateneo Libertario organized a cardboard mask workshop to mark the Carnival, reminiscing about the one celebrated in our town before the war. These masks went all over the town entering bars and the dicoteque and nobody imagined that this action would become the most participative fiesta in town and the most popular Carnival throughout the Valencian Community.

   - Night of Pinyata: Burial of Carnival. Parade of mourning and bonfires with the remains of Carnival, at the end of “correfocs”. The name of Pinyata comes from the pinyata dance held in Pego in the past on the first Lent Sunday. The first Pinyata came out of four pubs and gathered in the Town Hall Square at midnight, where the different “comparsas”, together with its partners, dressed in rigorous mourning, carried their monument, in keeping with the Carnival, to burn it to the beat of the music and the percussion. Years later (1992) the “correfocs” would be incorporated as the end of the fiesta and as a new way to celebrate the fire, symbol of this magic night. Other events that have been spontaneously incorporated are: photography competitions, fancy dress and comparsas competitions, dresses exhibitions, tv programmes, radio, etc.