CHRISTMAS

Clara Sans Laura Jalón Anna Carretero

OUR COUNTRYIn Catalonia we use to celebrate Christmas with our family and friends having lunch/dinner...

We have four special days which are:

Christmas day (24th/25th December)

Sant Esteve (26th December)

New Year’s Eve (31st December)

The Wise Kings day (6th January)

CHRISTMAS DAY24th/25th December

In our families we meet at home and we have dinner/lunch. Suddenly “caguem el tió”, which is a Catalan tradition; we give food to a trunk for a month, then we hit it on the Christmas day and it gives presents to us.

EL TIÓ CATALÀ

SANT ESTEVE26th December

The 26th we normally eat the food that has been left over from Christmas dinner. Then we prepare the papers for the invisible friend and we mix it and pass it to every member of the family, not including little children under 6/7 years.

NEW YEAR’S EVE31st December

For celebrate the new years eve we eat twelve grapes, one by one, while the chimes of the clock strikes midnight and drink cava. It is said that whoever eats the grapes in time will live a year full of luck. After dinner, we meet family and friends to celebrate watching TV where the chimes are relayed in live. Then, the young people get out to nightclubs, pubs... This celebration ends too late in the morning.

THE WISE KINGS DAY6th January

We celebrate the arrival of the Wise Kings with a ride called "Cabalgata". The kings ride horses or go on floats and throw sweets to the children. Kids, before going to sleep, leave cookies and drink for the Three Kings and straw for their camels. The next morning, the children discover that the food is gone and there are gifts left by the kings.

For lunch we usually eat the "Tortell" which is a round cake decorated with fruits and inside there's a small figure of a king.

CHRISTMAS IN GERMANYGermanian people has a different calendar as

Catalan and Spanish people. Their calendar goes from the 1st to the 24th because they celebrate Saint Silvester (their Christmas) on the 24th. Every Sunday before Sant Sivester’s eve they light a candle.

HEILIGABEND24th DecemberIn Germany they used to celebrate Sant

Silvester, is the same as Christmas but they call it like this. They have dinner and after that Papa Nöel goes to their houses and gives him presents.

WEIHNACHTSTAG25th/26th DecemberThey don’t celebrate as us two days Christmas,

their important day is just the 24th but our German friend flies to Barcelona on the 25th. After he arrives, he has to go to his Catalan family where he has dinner.

NIKOLAUSTAG6th JanuaryThis celebration is similar to our Wise Kings,

with the difference that who gives the presents to the children is Saint Nicholas.

NEW YEAR’S EVE IN GERMANY

31th DecemberIn the New Year’s Eve in Germany, they

celebrate it a little bit different as us, they have dinner with their family or their friends, and then, instead of eating grapes they throw fireworks in the street.

ABOUT US

ANNA CARRETERO

LAURA JALÓN

CLARA SANS

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