Christmas in Spain has both Christian and pagan influences. There are many special days celebrated around Christmas, including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and Epiphany on January 6th. The Spanish Christmas lottery held each year on December 22nd is also very important culturally. Families exchange gifts on Christmas Eve and January 6th to commemorate the Three Wise Men. Traditional Spanish Christmas foods include seafood, pork, turkey, sweets like turrón and marzipan, and drinks like wine and cider.

1. HOW IS CHRISTMAS IN
SPAIN?

2. Origin of Christmas in Spain
• It’s a Christian celebration.
• It reached Spain as a remain of the Saturnales.
• Saturnales were parties to conmemorate the
god Saturn in Roman religion.

3. AT CHRISTMAS THERE ARE A
LOT OF SPECIAL DAYS
Such as:
22- The national lottery
24- Christmas Eve
25- Christmas Day
31- New Year’s Eve
1- New Year’s Day
6- The day when the families open
the presents that the three kings bring

4. Spanish Christimas lotery:
•The christmas lotery is a very, very, very important event for Spanish
people.
•The “Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad” or the Extraordinary Christimas
Draw is one of the most famous drawings of lotteries of Spain.
•It is celebrated the 22th of december every year since 1812, and it is
celebrated in the saloon of draws of the “Loterias y Apuestas del
Estado” in Madrid.
•The biggest prize is called the gordo and it is about 5500000 of dollars
(4000000 of euros).
•The most popular place to buy the lottery is in the Doña Manolita a
very old shop that has been selling lottery since 1904 in Madrid.
Spanish Christmas lottery:
•The christmas lottery is a very, very, very important event for Spanish
people.
•The “Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad” or the Extraordinary
Christimas Draw is one of the most famous drawings of lotteries of
Spain.
•It is celebrated the 22th of december every year since 1812, and it is
celebrated in the saloon of draws of the “Loterias y Apuestas del
Estado” in Madrid.
•The biggest prize is called the gordo and it is about 5500000 of
dollars (4000000 of euros).
•The most popular place to buy the lottery is in the Doña Manolita a
very old shop that has been selling lottery since 1904 in Madrid

5. • It s celebratedthe 24th of December. All the family meet towether to
have dinner. In Spain we have the tradition of wearing red
underwear to have good luck.
• It s celebrated on the 24th of December. All the family meet together
to have dinner. In Spain we have the tradition of wearing red
underwear to have good luck.

6. Christmas eve dinner
• Like lamb, turkey, shrimp (prawns),
nougat, marzipan …
• In Spain the traditional Christmas
food is usually based on abundant
sweet dishes. Notably nougats,
shortbread, dates, marzipan, sweets,
alfajores, or almond soup, among
other sweets.
• It is also common to eat dishes with
dates, such as pork, free range
chicken, turkey, capon, lamb, sea
bream, escudella, shrimp, also cod
with cauliflower.
• In Spanish, Christmas Eve is called
"La Noche Buena," literally
translated as "The Good Night." In
Spain it is celebrated with a large
family feast, which is eaten late in
the evening and can last for several
hours.
• Most families eat their main
Christmas meal on Christmas Eve
before the service. The traditional
Spanish Christmas dinner is 'Pavo
Trufado de Navidad' which is Turkey
stuffed with truffles.

7. TheKing’s Speech on TV
 Every Christmas Eve, The King,givesa speechsummarizinghow the year
has been,and sendshisbestwishesforthe new year to bebetter.
 Thisisthelinkfor lastyear’sspeech:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcJfglI7qqc

9.  Here in Spain it’s a very important date,
we celebrate that a new and a better year
comes.
 Here, we do something that seems
strange, the 12 seconds before the 1st of
January we eat 1 grape per second ( in
total 12 grapes), for us is very important.

10. Twelve grapes of luck
It is atraditionofSpanishoriginthatdates
backfrom1896.
It consistsofeating12grapes,oneforeach
chime (in total12 chimes)at 12 amon
December31 (New Year'sEve)

11. The Cotillon party.
The “Cotillion party” is the name given to
the celebration that people have after the
New Year starts.
People usually go out with friends or the
family and they drink, dance and have fun!

12. NEW YEAR’S DAY
On New Year ’s Day the
whole family meet to have
lunch. We also go to a special
mass (if you are a Christian).
In my family we usually eat
fondue and we toast with
cider (children) or
champagne(adults).

13. The Three Wise
Men
•The three wise men came to the Nativity scene to offer presents to
Jesus. The presents were Gold Frankincense and Myrrh.
•Today, in Spain the Three Wise Men
bring presents to the whole family on
January 6th. It is a bank holiday for us.

14. The presents
• The Three Wise Men leave the presents
under the Chitsmas tree or in our shoes.
• The day before we leave traditional
Christmas sweets for the kings and water
for the camels.
• The children get up very soon to see the
presents.

15. THE PARADE
• It is a traditional parade of coaches.
• It takes place on January 6th.
• In the coaches we can see the three wise men,
who throw sweets at the children.

16. Typical Spanish food at Christmas
• One of the most typical food is prawns.
• We eat more seafood, like mussels, lobster…
• The most popular sweets are marzipan, nougat,
shortbread and the three wise men’s cake.

17. XMAS DESSERTS
TURRÓN ROSCÓN DE REYES (KING’S CAKE)
• It is a confection, typically
made of honey, sugar and
white eggs.
• It’s a type of cake that Spanish
people eat at Christmas. It has got
2 surprises inside, a good one and
a bad one. If you get the good
surprise, you will be the King of
the house for a day. If you get the
bad surprise (typically a vean),
you have to pay for the cake.

18. TYPICAL DRINK IN SPAIN
The typical drink at Christmas is wine. For seafood the wine that
suits is white and rose, for the meat red wine.
On the last night of the year, apart from drinking wine, champagne
is drunk to toast for the new year
In Spain we also drink cider, which is sweeter than champagne as it
is made from apples

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20. The Christmas tree
The Christmas tree is usually
green but can also be white. It
has colored lights, ornaments
as many balls, reindeer,
Christmas stockings, stars ...
And many presents
underneath it if you're good.

21. NATIVITY SCENE (BELÉN)
 The nativity is a typical decoration at Christmas. It has
got many figurines with different characters. It is
displayed in many places: schools, houses, shopping
centres ...

22. GOING SHOPPING IN THE CENTRE OF MADRID AND
OTHER SPANISH CITIES AND TOWNS AT CHRISTMAS IS
VERY POPULAR

23. XMAS CAROLS
• These are the most famous Spanish carols:
• ``Los peces en el rio´´.
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTM3X
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• ``Campana sobre campana´´.
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWvaBs
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24. TYPICALCHRISTMASINSTRUMENTS :
 Kind of rustic drum:
It is played moving your
hand up and down along the
stick of the zambomba
(name in Spanish ).
 Bottle(anis):
It is played rubbing the empty
bottle of glass with some
cutlery .
 Tambourine.
It is played hitting your hand
on the leather of the
tambourine.

 Mortar: It is played hitting the
bottom of the mortar with
some cutlery.

25. FELIZ
NAVIDAD
From Spain