At Christmas in Spain, families come together for meals and celebrations. They eat appetizers like ham, cheese and sausages, followed by soup, salad or meat for the main course. Traditional Christmas sweets include mantecados, polvorones, hojaldrinas and mazapanes. It's common to decorate with nativity scenes and Christmas trees. People sing carols and exchange gifts brought by the Three Wise Men. On New Year's Eve, families and friends gather for dinner and eat grapes at midnight to ring in the new year.

1. CHRISTMAS NAVIDAD By: Olga García-Arévalo Pedrós Joaquín Arzalluz Luque David Sierra Párraga.

2. CHRISTMAS At Christmas, families stay together and have lunch or dinner in Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year´s Eve and New Year´s Day.

3. FOOD Appetizer: We eat a variety of plates of ham, cheese, highly-seasoned pork sausage, spiced sausage, canapés. We drink drinks, wine, beers…

4. Appetizer

5. Food First plate: People eat whatever they want: a soup, a salad, vegetables… Second plate: People eat meat or fish, but often meat, like “solomillo’’(in the photo). It depends on the day.

6. Food (desserts) Christmas sweets: They´re typical in Spain, they´re called “mantecados”, “polvorones” (they´re made of lemon, almond, cinnamon…) “hojaldrinas”, “mazapanes”, and others sweets with chocolate and almonds…

7. Christmas sweets

8. “Turrón” and “bombones”

9. Christmas decorations It´s a tradition to put an image of the birth of Jesus and the three wise men, they´re called “Belén”. In some places people make a chocolate “Belén”, or they dress up like images in the “Belén”

10. Christmas decoration Christmas tree: Somepeople put a real or false tree with colorful garnalds and balls.

11. Carols Somepeople listen to carols while they´re eating or they´re staying together.

12. A carol Noche de paz, noche de amor, ha nacido el niño Dios, y los ángeles cantando están, gloria a Dios nuestro rey celestial, ha nacido Jesús, ha nacido Jesús…

13. New Year´s Eve In New Year´s Eve families or friends stay together, they have dinner and at twelve o´clock they eat a grape for each ring bell. The twelve ring bells are the last twelve seconds.

14. The Three Wise Men They usually bring us the presents that we have ordered them in a letter. They come to our house at night and leave the presents. They only leave presents to good children and if they aren´t good they get a lumb of coal.

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