SPAIN: How do they celebra: Easter, Halloween, Christmass, New Year?

Question

I need some datails or sources if you have them..thanks

Answer 1

easter=semana santa, look it up, very important if u r catholic

we dont do halloween

xmas is the same (kinda) we r starting 2 introduce the santa part. we usually get 2gether as a family and have a xmas dinner-party. we get gifts from the 3 wise men on the 6th of january, and on the eve of the gifts there's a HUGE parade w/ floats and ppol throwing candy and chep gifts. later at nite the kids put candy in their shoos and leave them 4 the 3 wise men.

new year is a family gathering where everybody has an awsom time waching fireworks.

Answer 2

EASTER:

The Passion of Christ, or Easter Week, known in Spain as Semana Santa is the most important celebration in the country. The festivities begin with the Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday) and end with Lunes de Pascua (Easter Monday). It is a celebration of life itself and the whole country comes alive.

Each area, city and town has its own accent on its celebrations. They all differ but in common they all portray life, colour, culture, music and dance, all with a very religious meaning.

Everywhere, processions make their way through the streets, carrying religious icons and symbols of their faith. In Seville alone there are over 100 of these such images.Semana Santa has to be experienced first hand to be fully appreciated and no words can begin to describe the emotions that flow like water, especially in the South. If you have the opportunity to sample these festivities, one thing is sure, the images will stay with you forever. (Although I confess I used to find them a bit scary when I was a child, especially the one with Virgin Mary stabbed and bleeding)

HALLOWEEN:

That's a typical Anglo-Saxon celebration, but it's now extending among children who just want to celebrate anything and want to copy what they see on tv. Like, my mum is a teacher and nowadays small children dress up and stuff. In Spain, the typical thing to do is eat chessnuts and those sort of things. Well and November 1st it's called Día de todos los Santos (All Saint day) and usually Catholic people-especially old ones-go to cementeries and put flowers of their beloved ones tombs.

We actually have our own moment to dress up and it's in Feb when some areas have parades and carnivals not so different from the Rio de Janeiro Ones. The way of celebrating changes a lot between areas. In the South, places like Canary Islands or Cádiz, are famous for the parades, while in the North, places like Galicia have really different traditions and believe in witches in spirits.

Christmas: Well, the typical Spanish celebration days were the 24th (Christmas, the celebration of the nigh Jesus was born), 25th (Xmas day),26th (San Esteban, just in Cataluña), 28th (not holiday, but it's called Día de los inocentes, Innocent's day, and it's a day to make jokes or to publish lies and stuff.Something like April's Fool). 31-1 (New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but only the 1st is holiday), 5th and 6h (Three Wise Men night and Three Wise Men's day, only the 6th is holiday). The usual thing nowadays is that families reunite for a big dinner and the Santa Claus comes the 24th (depends on how traditional the family is) and gives out some presents and the 25th families have a big lunch all together.

The night between the 5th and 6th of January is when the Three Wise Men leave presents to the good children and put those presents in the awaiting shoes. Bad children would get charcoal, but now it's a tradition to give sweet charcoal made of sugat as a present.

In New Year people get really dress up, almost like for a wedding. The women spend lot's of money in the dress, makeup, hairdresser, shoes...and the men in their suits or tuxedos. Spanish New Year's Eve (Nochevieja, or Fin de Año) celebrations usually begin with a family dinner, traditionally including shrimp and lamb or turkey. Spanish people believe that wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve brings good luck. The actual countdown is primarily followed from the clock on top of the Casa de Correos building in Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. It is traditional to eat twelve grapes, one on each chime of the clock. This tradition has its origins in 1909, when grape growers in Alicante thought of it as a way to cut down on the large production surplus they had had that year. Nowadays, the tradition is followed by almost every Spaniard, and the twelve grapes have become synonymous with the New Year. After the clock has finished striking twelve, people greet each other and toast with sparkling wine such as cava or champagne, or alternatively with cider.

After the family dinner and the grapes, many young people attend New Year parties at pubs, discotheques and similar places (these parties are called cotillones de nochevieja, after the Spanish word cotillón, which refers to party supplies like confetti, party blowers, party hats, etc.). Parties usually last until the next morning and range from small, personal celebrations at local bars to huge parties with guests numbering the thousands at hotel convention rooms. Early next morning, party attendees usually gather to have the traditional winter breakfast of ‘’chocolate con churros’’ (hot chocolate and fried pastry)