"festival fever" eTwinning project Spain & Turkey

1. FESTIVALS /FESTIVITIES IN SPAIN
-Religious Catholic Easter with religious parades in the
streets
-Christmas time Festivity especially the Three Wise Kings
(6th
January)
-Day of Spain and Day of Virgin Pilar (patroness of Spain)
12th
October. This day we also celebrate the Day of the
Hispanity (when Colombus discovered America)
-St. Valentine’s Day 14th
February
-St. José’s Day or the Day of the Father 19th
March
-Day of the Mother festivity (1st
Sunday of May)
-Day of Virgin of August (15th
August)
-1st
November (religious day of the Saints that are in
Heaven)
-Day of Immaculate Virgin (8th
December- religious national
festivity)
-Day of the Spanish Constitution (6th
December- National
day festivity )
-Carnival (February or march, it depends on the religious
catholic calendar)
-Day of Labour (1st
May)
-Corpus Christy day (15 june – religious catholic day)
-Day of the Spanish Patron – Santiago (25th
july- religious
day)