Red Letter Days

Some of our holidays and festivals are: It is celebrated the week leading up to Lent. People dress up and go out to the street to participate in parades. There are also groups of people that sing satirical songs cheerfully mocking politicians, celebrities…... More

Some of our holidays and festivals are: It is celebrated the week leading up to Lent. People dress up and go out to the street to participate in parades. There are also groups of people that sing satirical songs cheerfully mocking politicians, celebrities… These events culminate in the traditional Burial of the Sardine. This marks the beginning of Lent when formally dressed “mourners” carry a cardboard sardine and it is buried in its coffin. Holy Week is the annual commemoration of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternities that perform penance processions on the streets of almost every city and town during the last week of Lent, the week immediately before Easter. In the processions, many marchers wear clothes meant to depict the Nazarenos, people from Nazareth. The people who carry floats bearing sculptures and models of biblical scenes, called “costaleros”. 12th October is a national holiday in Spain. The Hispanity Day is celebrated co Less