Christmas Celebration

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Christmas Celebration

• Hi, People!
• Do you want to know how we celebrate Christmas in
  Portugal?

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Christmas Celebration
Wellwe just love Christmas. People send
Christmas cards each other and exchange presents.
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Christmas Celebration
The cities, the villages are full of light at
night and every public place you go we are
listening to Christmas songs (and singing, too!).
This year, in Lisbon, we had the highest
Christmas tree in Europe, which could be seen
from the other side of Tagus river. It was really
beautiful.
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Christmas Celebration
In the beginning of December, people start
decorating their houses they have their
Christmas tree with tinsels, bells, small angels,
ribbons and, of course, the star at the top of
the tree. Some families also place a Christmas
crib under the tree.
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Christmas Celebration
Small children write to Santa Claus asking for
their gifts, and on Christmas eve they hang their
stockings over the fireplace or any other place
near the tree and wait for Santa Claus to come
and fill them with presents while they are
sleeping.. If there are no stockings, Santa Claus
will put the presents under the tree. But the
best part about Christmas for everyone is waking
up on Christmas morning and finding lots of
presents.
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Christmas Dinner
On the 24th , Portuguese families get together
for Christmas dinner they eat cod fish with
boiled vegetables and potatoes. The table is
set the whole season, full of sweet things
cakes, puddings, sweets, crackers, nuts,
pine-nuts, dried figs, etc.
Some parts of Portugal have their own specific
confiture which enriches our gastronomy.
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Cake bolo-rei
most common cakes
with lots of dried fruit
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Cake - Christmas trunk
most common cakes
a trunk shaped cake covered with chocolate
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Arroz doce
traditional confiture
Its sweet rice
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Other traditional sweets
Sonhos
Filhozes
Rabanadas
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Christmas Celebration
Portuguese are very religious people, so, at
night, they go to midnight mass to celebrate the
birth of Jesus Christ.
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Christmas Celebration
On Christmas day, people eat meat roast turkey,
roast potatoes, lettuce and tomato salad, and for
dessert theres
fruit salad
chocolate mousse
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Christmas Celebration
The traditions may differ in some places of the
country. For example, in the north of Portugal,
on Christmas eve, people light a fire with a huge
trunk and join together around it, singing
Christmas carols. Children enjoy themselves
playing and singing.
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Reporters
Well, this is how we celebrate Christmas here, in
Portugal.
Ana Gláucia Cheila Martins Inês Costa Melissa
Ferreira Cleusa Fernandes