Christmas Holidays in Spain

Christmas is a religious holiday in Spain. The patron saint in Spain is Virgin Mary. Christmas festival officially begins on 8th December. Every year, it is celebrated in front of the Gothic cathedral in Seville with the ceremony known as Los Seises. Ten boys dressed in traditional costumes perform the ritual dance. This dance is beautiful and moving. It is made of series of precise conventional movements as well as gestures. Christmas Eve is named as Nochebuena or the Good Night in Spain. Small oil lamps are lit in every house when the stars come out on Christmas Eve. Spending Christmas holidays in Spain is a beautiful experience.

Family members come together to celebrate and feast around the nativity scenes. There is special Christmas dance in Spain known as the Jota. The dance is accompanied by the sound of castanets and guitars. The Spanish particularly honor cow at Christmas because when Mary gave birth to Christ, the cow breathed on the Christ for keeping him warm. During Christmas in Spain, people also go to church, present gifts and play on swing sets. Young boys light bonfires and one of them act as the mayor, who orders town people for performing civic chores like sweeping the streets. If you deny obeying, fines are levied, which are used to pay for the Christmas celebration.

The children in Spain get gifts on the 6th January, the day when three intelligent men gave gifts to Christ. The Magi are especially respected in Spain. It is believed that they travel through countryside every year to Bethlehem at this time. On the 'Eve of the King', a parade takes place in every town. Kings walk through the towns and throw gifts and sweets to the kids watching. Kings are the highlight of kids and they write a gift list to kings instead of Father Christmas. Kids put down their shoes on the shelf and then load them with carrots and straw for the horses of wise men.

Good Friday is a significant holiday in the spring. This is the Friday before Easter Sunday. Several cities have big processions as well as festivals on Good Friday. On several of these, there are re-enactments of crucifixion. There are processions in holy weeks in many areas. Easter Sunday is the Christmas holiday in Spain. This day honors the resurrection of Christmas. There are several festivals, which extend to Easter Sunday. This is one of the blissful Christmas holiday in Spain. The holiday of Corpus Christi is also celebrated during Christmas in Spain. It means the body of Christ. The fest celebrated is the sacrament of the sacred Eucharist. This is a catholic holiday, which is considered significant. There are processions as well as religious celebrations on this day.

The fest of Corpus Christi falls on a different day every year. It is celebrated on first Sunday after Trinity Sunday. This differs every year usually in May or June. There are effigies and bonfires are burned on 23 rd June. People jump over the bonfires.