Traditions, customs : meal times, nap, grapes, fallas, holly week
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Some traditions, customs... To know.
MEAL TIMES.
In a Latin country like Spain, you will be guaranteed a change of scenery. No need for a time difference to feel the benefits of the Spanish rhythm.
Some traditions, customs... To know.
MEAL TIMES.
In a Latin country like Spain, you will be guaranteed a change of scenery. No need for a time difference to feel the benefits of the Spanish rhythm.
About two hours separate us from French habits: after a quiet awakening, lunch is only between 2pm and 3pm and dinner around 9pm-10pm.
As a result, the days end later but are still very active. Accept the new rules of the game and you will be surprised how quickly you can get used to this new rhythm.
THE NAP.
Who has not heard that in Spain, we take a nap? It is a sacred moment and a ritual that has many benefits: it is good for health, improves concentration, stress, memory, attention and energy.
Scientifically, it should not exceed 30 minutes, because beyond that, it can destabilize the biological schedule and cause nighttime insomnia.
END OF THE YEAR: GRAPES.
If you are visiting Spain at the end of the year, it is important that you know the famous custom that 99% of Spaniards practice on December 31 at midnight.
The Puerta del Sol in Madrid is the emblematic place to celebrate this tradition. Every year, on New Year's Eve, thousands of people gather in front of its clock to celebrate the arrival of the New Year in a collective festive atmosphere.
For each chime of the clock that marks the beginning of the new year, they put a grape in their mouth, up to a total of twelve grapes! It is great fun and a great way to start the year off on the right foot.
THE TUTOIEMENT.
You will be very surprised to see that the Spanish are very quick to address you informally, just as they will call you by your first name and not by your last name. This is quite surprising, but it is their custom. Do not see it as a lack of respect.
However, be careful not to address an elderly or senior person informally.
HOLY WEEK.
Holy Week, declared to be of public interest, is celebrated throughout Spain, to unite the ceremonial and the liturgy, giving solemnity to the various acts that commemorate a certain mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ through spectacular processions with their marches, their brotherhoods, their colors...
THE FALLAS.
Las Fallas are currently the most important festival in Valencia and some 150 cities in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. It is a festival deeply rooted in tradition that brings together, for its organization, throughout the year, falleros and falleras, family, friends, technicians, artists, musicians ...
They are enormous papier-mâché sculptures (ninots, that is to say each figure of Falla) that satirize current situations or social behaviors and end up becoming enormous bonfires. The monuments of the Fallas are built over the months by the artisans of the Fallas (painters, carpenters, sculptors, ...) and end up burning on the day of the Cremà. Today, 700 Fallas are burned in the city of Valencia alone.
Thousands of tourists, on the occasion of this festival enjoy the fallas, the pyrotechnics, the music, the different shows, the street arts.
They take place from March 15, the day of the Plantà (installation of the fallas), and end on March 19, the day of the Cremà when the monuments are burned and which coincides with Saint Joseph's Day.
As a result, the days end later but are still very active. Accept the new rules of the game and you will be surprised how quickly you can get used to this new rhythm.
THE NAP.
Who has not heard that in Spain, we take a nap? It is a sacred moment and a ritual that has many benefits: it is good for health, improves concentration, stress, memory, attention and energy.
Scientifically, it should not exceed 30 minutes, because beyond that, it can destabilize the biological schedule and cause nighttime insomnia.
END OF THE YEAR: GRAPES.
If you are visiting Spain at the end of the year, it is important that you know the famous custom that 99% of Spaniards practice on December 31 at midnight.
The Puerta del Sol in Madrid is the emblematic place to celebrate this tradition. Every year, on New Year's Eve, thousands of people gather in front of its clock to celebrate the arrival of the New Year in a collective festive atmosphere.
For each chime of the clock that marks the beginning of the new year, they put a grape in their mouth, up to a total of twelve grapes! It is great fun and a great way to start the year off on the right foot.
THE TUTOIEMENT.
You will be very surprised to see that the Spanish are very quick to address you informally, just as they will call you by your first name and not by your last name. This is quite surprising, but it is their custom. Do not see it as a lack of respect.
However, be careful not to address an elderly or senior person informally.
HOLY WEEK.
Holy Week, declared to be of public interest, is celebrated throughout Spain, to unite the ceremonial and the liturgy, giving solemnity to the various acts that commemorate a certain mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ through spectacular processions with their marches, their brotherhoods, their colors...
THE FALLAS.
Las Fallas are currently the most important festival in Valencia and some 150 cities in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. It is a festival deeply rooted in tradition that brings together, for its organization, throughout the year, falleros and falleras, family, friends, technicians, artists, musicians ...
They are enormous papier-mâché sculptures (ninots, that is to say each figure of Falla) that satirize current situations or social behaviors and end up becoming enormous bonfires. The monuments of the Fallas are built over the months by the artisans of the Fallas (painters, carpenters, sculptors, ...) and end up burning on the day of the Cremà. Today, 700 Fallas are burned in the city of Valencia alone.
Thousands of tourists, on the occasion of this festival enjoy the fallas, the pyrotechnics, the music, the different shows, the street arts.
They take place from March 15, the day of the Plantà (installation of the fallas), and end on March 19, the day of the Cremà when the monuments are burned and which coincides with Saint Joseph's Day.