Special days
24th December- Christmas eve
25th December- Christmas day
31st December-New years eve
1st January-New years day
6th January- The 3kings day
The Three
Kings Day
This day in the Spanish culture is considered
to be Christmas day. It is an event that is celebrated on the night of January
5th and on the actual day of the Three Kings which is January 6th.
Their names were Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar. They travelled by camel to present the newborn baby Jesus with three symbolic gifts: gold, inciense and myrrh. According to tradition, those who have misbehaved last year will receive coal – which, by the way, is a sweet that is visually similar to coal but prepared with sugar and water with a black alimentary dye.
Did you get coal?