The most important dates in Spain

Hello hello!
If you would like to travel to Spain and don't know when will do it, know about the most important holidays, can be very useful for choice your dates.. that way you're able to enjoy a nice experience.

December 31 - New Year Eve.

Is typical Spanish in the night of 31 December, all  the Spaniards eat the 12 lucky grapes while sounds the bells of the clock in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid.
The bells announce the end of the year and the beginning of a new one. People make a wish while eating one by one the grapes. Then go out with friends to celebrate the new year until the sun rise. Also is tipical start the new day after a long long party night eating churros with chocolate.

January 6 - Epiphany.

I like so much this date (*^▽^*) 

It's very popular celebrate the arrival of the Three Wise Men who bring gifts to all children with the Cavalcade of Magi. this is a typical parade practically in all the Spanish cities. The Magi (of which tradition holds there are three: Melchor, Gaspar, and Baltasar) ride through the streets, as their page boys throw candies to children.

It's celebrated every January 5 (the day preceding the feast of Epiphany) in the evening. When the night comes the children must go to bed early after cleaning their shoes and the following morning they have the gifts of the Magi that they have requested before in a letter. According to this tradition, the children who have behaved badly during the last year receive coal rather than candy, though (as in the case of Santa Claus) this is not a frequent occurrence. They might get coal candy, though.

March 19 Father's Day

April 23 -  San Jordi's day

Valentine's day reminds me a little to San Jordi's day, is tipical on 23 April in Catalonia, nowdays becoming popular in the rest of Spain, that couples give each other gifts.
In Sant Jordi, the girl must give to man a book and man give a rose to the girl.



1 May - Labour Day

The labor day is celebrated every 1th of May, all labor unions and workers celebrated this festivity and the right to have an 8-hour workday.

May 6 - Mother's Day.

October 12 - Dia de la hipanidad. 

'El dia de la hipanidad' is the national day of Spain. It is held annually on October 12 and is a national holiday.
this day is the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first arrival in the Americas. Since 2000, October 12 has also been Spain's Day of the Armed Forces, celebrated each year with a military parade in Madrid.
To commemorate it, there is a parade led by the military (usually held in Madrid) presided by the Spanish King (*in the pic you can see the King and the Prince), who is the Head of State, since Spain is politically organized as a constitutional monarchy. The Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente del Gobierno) has also a special role in the ceremony, only second to that of the King. Then a wide array of authorities, from foreign diplomats deployed in Spain to members of the Autonomous governments, are invited to attend the parade performed by the Spanish Armed Forces, which typically feature a display by the Spanish Air Force's aerobatics team, the Patrulla Águila. Other than this, however, the holiday is not widely or enthusiastically celebrated in Spain; there are no other large-scale patriotic parades, marches, or other events, and the observation is generally overshadowed by the feast day of Our Lady of the Pilar.

November 1 - All Saints Day.

It's a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries. In Spain too, is
tipical go to the graveyard to visit your deads relatives to bring them offerings as flowers or candles.
Anyway nowadays it's becoming very popular to celebrate Halloween in the american style. Youth like dressed halloween costumes and go out with friends

December 6 - Constitution Day.

In Spain, the Constitution Day is Celebrated December 6. It's a holiday in Spain to commemorate the conclusion of the 1978 Constitutional Referendum in which the Spanish people overwhelmingly approved the current Spanish Constitution, in force since then.

Is a holiday in Spain and various events are held in honor of the 1978 constitution.

December 25 - Christmas