Saint patrick's day

The St. Patrick's Day is celebrated annually on March 17 to commemorate the death of Saint Patrick (c. 386-17 March 493 or c. 460), patron saint of Ireland. It is a national holiday in the Republic of Ireland and a party by custom and unofficial Northern Ireland. Today, St. Patrick's Day is probably the most celebrated saints in the world.

The St. Patrick's Day is celebrated worldwide by all Irish and even people who have no Irish ancestry. The celebration theme is usually all that is green and Irish; Christians and non-Christians celebrate the holiday by dressing in green, enjoying Irish food and drink, and attending parades. Some establishments selling beer dyed green for the holiday.

The legend said that when St. Patrick came to Ireland, scared all the snakes that inhabited the country. Therefore, and to honor this feat, it is tradition to spend all kinds of jokes related to snakes, from pots of sprouting snakes to open up plastic snakes mysteriously descend from the ceiling. Shamrocks are also related to the day of St. Patrick, because the patron have explained the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity using one of these. For this reason, nothing better to celebrate this special day to wear shamrocks reasons everywhere

The Parade St. Patrick's Day in Dublin is part of a five-day festival and more than 675,000 people attended it last year. The parade's largest St. Patrick's Day takes place in the city of New York and is seen by over two million viewers.The first Saint Patrick's Festival was held on March 17, 1996. In 1997 he became a three-day event, and by 2000 he was a four day event. Since 2006 the festival lasts five days.

In Spain we are getting used to see groups of people celebrating St. Patrick's Day, wearing green or something that looks the shamrock symbol (the famous clover), in thousands of Irish pubs that have opened around the country for some years now. To commemorate this day, the city of Madrid lit the Civeles during the night on March 17, like other cities in the world did with their symbolic buildings such as the London Eye, the Empire State Building, or Niagara Falls in Canada.