The document summarizes Christmas traditions in several countries. In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated in the summer with a Christmas Eve dinner including seafood and roast turkey. In Spain, Christmas celebrations last from Christmas Eve until Epiphany, and include decorating with nativity scenes or Christmas trees, a large Christmas Eve dinner followed by Midnight Mass, and exchanging gifts on Three Kings Day. In Macedonia, Christmas is celebrated on January 7th with a Christmas Eve dinner of traditional fasting foods and leaving the dinner table overnight for holy spirits.

1. CHRISTMAS IN DIFFERENTS
COUNTRIES

2. CHRISTMAS IN BRAZIL
• Christmas Day
Christmas Day is a national holiday in Brazil. But Brazilians
celebrate Christmas in the summer.
On December 25, Catholics go to church.

3. ·Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve
Christmas dinner in Brazil is normally served late in the evening
on Christmas Eve around 10 or 11 p.m. The meal often includes
farofa stuffing, assortments of fruit, fried cod, and roast turkey
with a dessert called “rabanada”. Brazilians typically drink
champagne, wine, and fruit punch.
Typically after they eat, many Brazilians attend a Midnight Mass
with family and friends.

4. ·Christmas tree and Santa Claus
On Christmas Eve, they lock the children in a room until the tree
has been completely decorated with ornaments and lights.
Santa Claus is the character who gives in Brazil. According to
legend, lives in Greenland. When he arrives in Brazil, which
usually leads silk clothing.

5. ·Traditions
The celebrations resemble in many ways the traditions in Europe
and North America, with the Christmas tree, the exchanging of
gifts and Christmas cards, the decoration of houses and buildings
with electric lights and the nativity scene.

6. CHRISTMAS IN SPAIN
• Christmas
Christmas Day is a holiday in Spain, and the festivities last from
Christmas Eve, December 24, until Epiphany or Three Kings Day,
January 6, although unofficially they give begun on December 22,
with the Christmas lottery draw .

7. ·Christmas decorating
Typically decorate the house with a nativity scene, a Christmas
tree or both. In several regions of the north there is a tradition of
“Tió de Nadal” , a log "defecates” sweets for children on
Christmas Eve.

8. ·Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve a family feast that lasts until the wee hours of
the morning is celebrated. However, it is quite common start
dinner with a vegetable dish or soup, stick with fish or seafood
and finish with roasted stuffed turkey as the main dish. For
dessert served typical nougat , shortbread , marzipan , figs,
dates, prunes, raisins and nuts.
Christmas Day morning. On Christmas Day, families usually also
meet for a banquet.

9. ·Day of the Innocents
The December 28 is celebrated the "Day of the Innocents", which
commemorates the killing of children ordered by King Herod.
That day, the Spanish jokes calls.

10. ·New Year
On December 31, New Year, it's also great day celebrations.
Many people celebrate the New Year at home. At 12 hours, the
Spanish people welcome the new year by eating 12 grapes, one
for each chime of the clock.
On New Year's tradition to celebrate another great family meal
the beginning of the year.

11. ·The three Kings
On the evening of January 5, Spanish welcome the Three Kings,
who parade in spectacular ride through the streets. That night,
the Kings bring gifts to good children and coal to bad. Children
leave some sweets for kings and milk for their camels.
The day finish with a typical King cake in which they often hide a
figure and bean.

12. CHRISTMAS IN MACEDONIA
·Christmas
The Macedonian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on
January 7. On Christmas Eve, January 6, a coin is hidden in a
loaf of bread, and the host delivers a piece to each diner with the
belief that it finds the coin will have luck in the coming year.

13. ·Christmas dinner
Dinner is consistent with the requirements of fasting: fish, beans,
sauerkraut , walnuts and red wine, and dessert apples and dried
fruits: prunes, dates and figs.
The table is usually left uncollected overnight for the holy spirits
can also eat, a custom that comes from the days before
Christianity.