SPANISH CHRISTMAS

At Christmas, Spanish cities like ours are decorated with Christmas trees and lights. At home, we set up trees and Nativity scenes.

Traditional meals in our region (Aragon) include roast lamb and stewed cardoon with almond sauce. As dessert, there are plenty of traditional sweets like "turrón" (nougat) and "polvorones" (a type of shortbread cookie).

In New year's Eve, Spaniards eat twelve grapes with each of the twelve bell strokes at midnight in order to have good luck in the new year. 

Here, it is The Three Wise Men who bring presents to children on the night of the 5th of January, after a merry colourful parade in the town centre. In the past years, Father Christmas has also started bringing gifts to the little ones on the night of the 24th of December... which means we are getting presents twice!

It's great to live in Spain!

CHRISTMAS IN GREECE

LOCAL CUSTOMS - WISHES AND MORE

                                        What do you eat for Christmas?

During Christmas all people gather at homes and eat traditional foods like goodies.Christmas families eat roast pork , stuffed turkey or chicken with chestnuts , raisins and rice but if weather is good we have a barbecue in the countryside . In some places people cooking local specialities. In our province we make sarmades. Are stuffed sour cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice.

They are so tasty!

TRADITIONAL SWEETS

There is a big range of tradiotional sweets like 'kourabiedes', 'melomakarona'and 'baklava'. Kourabiedes are sugared almond cookies, melomakarona are Christmas cookies dipped in honey syrup and topped with walnuts. Also 'Baklavas'is a multiple layered pastry on top and bottom and filled with nuts, cinammon and sugar.

 'Vasilopita ' is a traditional pie we prepare on New Year's Eve. After midnight we cut the pie into pieces and the person who has the coin is the lucky of the year.