Felz Navidad

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Felíz Navidad
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Spain celebrates Christmas in 3 parts-
1. Nochebuena Christmas Eve
2. Los Reyes Three Kings Day
3.New Years Eve
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1. Nochebuena (Christmas Eve)

• Family time at home

• Meal of cold seafood and
• cold meats

• Followed by baked fish and
• potatoes

• Then roast lamb or suckling pig

• Dessert túrron (nougat with almonds) or
  polvorones ( ground almond biscuits with
  marzipan)

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• Children receive only one present on
• Christmas Eve

• At midnight, people go to church for midnight
  mass

• Most towns display a belén (nativity display)

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2. Los Reyes (Three Kings Day)
6th January

• Children leave straw barley in their shoes the
  night before to feed the camels which the
  Three Kings ride

• The Three Kings empty the shoes and leave
  presents

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• Processions in the streets and sweets are thrown

• Eat Rosca del Reyes (cake with plastic
  toys or charms inside)

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3. New Years Eve

• Tradition to wear red underwear !!

• Fireworks and fancy dress in the evening

• Eat 12 grapes at midnight

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• Other activities in the lead-up to
  Christmas

8th Dec Immaculada (beginning of the
religious celebrations
21st Dec Hogueras (bonfires)
22nd Dec El Gordo (Lottery). The largest
in the world
28th Dec Santos Inocentes (Same as April
Fools Day and people play
practical jokes on each other)