Six-day illegal rave sees 5,000 people descend on Spanish village

Residents watched in amazement as tents, caravans and seven stages set up near village centre

The music blared for days, thumping through dozens of speakers hastily erected in the dusty fields. Against the backdrop of Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains, thousands of revellers danced while others perused stands selling homemade soap, piercings and slices of pizza from a makeshift mud oven.

The illegal rave began on Friday, choking off traffic and leaving pulsating beats wafting over the nearby village of La Peza. It was 24 hours a day of chin chin boom," said Fernando Alvarez, the mayor of the municipality.