Holidays

their own traditions and customs associated with its celebration.

Spanish holiday. Preparation for it begins in November. City streets

are gradually decorated, in shops and in streets Christmas trees are established, flicker everywhere Fathers Noely - Father Frost brothers and Santa Claus.
If you can meet New year in Spain, be going to swallow of fruit. Each time when hours will beat off in midnight of 12 blows, it is necessary to swallow grapes. It is said that it brings happiness.
Besides sweets, on a festive table there will be sea crustaceans - shrimps, crabs, spiny lobsters - and champagne. By tradition any Spanish holiday should be accompanied by a plentiful and tasty meal, and for the most important holiday in a year of money nobody is sorry. nobody is sorry.

bosom of the family. Usually, a week or two before

Christmas, organized Christmas dinners in restaurants, collecting at the same table work colleagues or simply friends. Evening on December, 24th and all the day long on December, 25th Spaniards spend in the family circle: give each other gifts and destroy huge stocks of the provisions bought within several weeks.

with his family. Traditionally, this day decided to dress in

red and dark green color. To decorate the streets and houses are mainly red and gold colors.
The main symbols of Christmas on Germany - a fur-tree and Christmas festival.
Since November and before the eve of Christmas all Germany has fun on main squares of cities and looks after gifts at Christmas fairs.

countries, is a goose.

beginning of December when streets and squares of the city

dress up New Year's garlands and small lamps, getting fantastic lines and creating celebratory mood.

Christmas holiday in the Czech Republic - is a ritual. On the eve of preparing a traditional dish - fried carp with potato salad and baked Christmas cookies.

citizens of Poland Christmas Eve is time of gathering of

all family, and Christmas - night of magic. Polish superstition says that on the night of Christmas, animals can talk.
Since the earliest morning on December, 24th women clean houses and prepare various dishes, preparing for Christmas Eve.
December 24 - a day of great concern: dress up the tree, prepare and pack the gifts. The gift should get every party celebration. All Christmas week Poles visit to each other, drink tea with spice-cakes and other batch, watch the representations prepared by children, some visit poor and sick.

inhabitants of the country deprived of "snow" pleasures, decorate a

fur-tree cotton wool flakes.
Brazilians prefer to celebrate Christmas in streets. Street celebrations, songs and dances - a distinctive feature of Christmas celebrations in Brazil.
Brazilian Santa Claus, according to tradition comes from a distant Greenland.

any French family, therefore are prepared for it fully, for

the whole month. It is especially important for children who find the gifts at the dressed up fur-tree.
A few days before Christmas in all the councils begin the evening concerts.
The main Christmas service passes in Notre Dame de Paris.

to Americans to visit relatives, or to sit in a

close family circle, to give each other gifts, and simply to communicate. Usually, families, Americans give each other expensive gifts. It could be jewelry, expensive wines, spirits, something right out of household clothing. If no specific ideas do not, then practical Americans simply give a gift certificate or gift card denomination from $ 25 and above.
Among all the national holidays of Christmas in the U.S. - the most beloved and epic in scope.

most favourite Finnish holidays. In honour of it Finns named

December joulukuu – month of Christmas. So it is called three hundred years more narrow, and before arrival to Finland Christianities December was called simply talvikuu – winter month.
In Finland, gifts at Christmas give a lot. They are usually inexpensive - chocolate, candles and candle holders, Christmas angels, goats and straw ornaments, wooden ornaments and suvenirchiki. Very often give Christmas potted plants. The most popular of them, Christmas star, or poinsettia.

not how in other Christian countries. Catholic Christmas is marked

in December, and orthodox – only in January. Therefore in Russia children and adults receive Christmas gifts on two weeks later.

all gather in the parental house, give each other gifts,

eat, drink and look through the family photos. A traditional dish is the turkey under sauce from a gooseberry and a pudding. And drink this day exclusively tea or a brandy.
Ornament of an English Christmas table is the celebratory pie.
The house in Great Britain can be decorated branches of holly-symbolizing a prosperity, and mistletoes — meaning hospitality and fertility.

a rule, all family members gather at someone's home, at

about 10 pm sit down to eat, my grandfather told all sorts of stories, the women chat about their etc.
At 12 am officially opens cider or pop (champagne in a rare case), the young people go shoot squib or a gun on running a small balloons.
At the Christmas table - traditionally ensalada rusa (Russian like Olivier, who are proud Argentines), ensalada de lechuga y tomate (lettuce, tomatoes), the Argentine asado or marinated chicken.

anticipation of gifts sill exposed children's shoes. Isladskim kids lucky

- the presents will not only Santa Claus and the Christmas thirteen beings, half human - half-troll, every night would bring something in for two weeks. It is true that only good children are lucky, the rest in his shoes just find a potato. But the most intolerable will visit a horrible cat Grill - troll with three eyes, warts and protruding teeth. She, as the legend goes, do not bite off a naughty kid!

dish. At night before Christmas all television programs stop, by

radio the church mass is broadcast. After returning from family church sit down a table. A partridge wash down routinely with red wine, but sometimes and champagne. For a dessert — a simple rice pudding in which one almond hides. It eat, while someone does not find the hidden nutlet, and to the lucky beggar give out a gift.

of the Catholic world. Under the Christmas tree placed gifts

on Christmas Eve the family sits down for dinner, which is usually fed carp, and then all go to church.

Christmas in Croatia

of light" that decorate the lanterns and flowers.
China

holidays. Traditionally, these festivals are not only the family gathers

to exchange gifts, but also to think about how fun it is for the family table. A typical holiday menu in almost all regions of Italy includes traditional dishes. In the Christmas menu is meat dumplings in broth, stuffed with meat, sweet rolls or buns of Milan, and New Year - dzampogne, pork sausage and lentils.

Christmas in Italy

the golden memories of tomorrow. Wish you lots of love,

joy and happiness.

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