{"id":3405,"date":"2018-06-11T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:42:22","slug":"spains-festivals-and-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/spains-festivals-and-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s festivals and celebrations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Bienvenidos todos!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m now coming to the end of my incredible year abroad experience here in Spain and I\u2019m really going to miss it. It\u2019s just such a different lifestyle here compared to what I\u2019m used to at home in the UK but in the best way. Something I will miss is getting involved with the many festivals and celebrations that Spain has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three of the main ones:<\/p>\n<p>The Falles.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Valencian celebration that commemorates Saint Joseph (San Jos\u00e9) and is an integral part of a Valencian culture. Every year, the Falles takes place between the 15<sup>th<\/sup>&#8211; 19<sup>th<\/sup> March. This is a rather unique celebration because it involves the burning of constructions like dolls and puppets.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Valencian community and their neighbourhood come together to create groups called the \u201cCasal faller\u201d. Each one of these neighbourhood groups creates their own \u201cfalla\u201d which is essentially a construction consisting of a mounted doll or puppet (<em>ninots<\/em> in\/ Valencian) which is then filled with firecrackers. These \u201cfalles\u201d usually follow a theme and at the very end of the celebration on the last day, every single one of the falles is burnt.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting aspect of las Falles is \u201cLa Masclet\u00e0\u201d which is a daily event during the festival. This involves a load of extravagant firework displays. This normally happens in the afternoon and a similar event also happens in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>La Tomatina.<\/p>\n<p>Este es el festival m\u00e1s extra\u00f1o en esta lista, \u00a1pero es el m\u00e1s maravilloso! Es una celebraci\u00f3n muy famosa en Espa\u00f1a \u00a1y es una celebraci\u00f3n que es todo sobre los tomates! Esta celebraci\u00f3n suele tener lugar el \u00faltimo mi\u00e9rcoles de agosto en la localidad valenciana de Bu\u00f1ol. Los participantes de este evento se lanzan tomates unos a otros y esto normalmente dura m\u00e1s o menos una hora. Aparentemente esta tradici\u00f3n comenz\u00f3 en 1945 y desde entonces, este festival ha crecido masivamente hasta el punto de que en los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, s\u00f3lo puede unirse a La Tomatina si se compra un boleto.<\/p>\n<p>Cada a\u00f1o, se utilizan muchos tomates, de hecho el a\u00f1o pasado se utilizaron 150 toneladas de tomates maduros en el festival.<\/p>\n<p>Esta es una lista de las reglas oficiales de la Tomatina:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Es ilegal traer cualquier tipo de botellas u otros objetos que puedan causar un accidente.<\/li>\n<li>No debe rasgar camisetas.<\/li>\n<li>Los tomates deben ser triturados antes de lanzarlos para que no hagan da\u00f1o a nadie.<\/li>\n<li>Hay que tener cuidado de evitar los camiones que transportan los tomates.<\/li>\n<li>Tan pronto como oigas el segundo petardo debes dejar de tirar tomates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Semana Santa.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to be in M\u00e1laga with my family during Semana Santa, and in Spain they go all out for Holy Week. Semana Santa is a Catholic celebration and is the name given to the week that leads up to Easter Sunday and it is a very busy time. It was so lovely to see the entire community of M\u00e1laga come together for the parades and the processions; the streets were crowded and the parades went on all day and throughout the night. Brass music and drumming flooded the streets of the city and it was almost impossible to get through the sea of people that came out to see the processions. We saw a load of these processions every day we were out in Malaga; the different churches of the city came together to put on different parades at different times while fragrant incense filled the air. There were many adults and children marching in the processions in the middle of the streets who were followed by a group of people carrying huge heavy decorative floats (tronos) which precede the marching band behind them. I can\u2019t tell you how many mornings I woke up to the sound of trumpets and drums! Parades and celebrations happen in towns and cities all around Spain.<\/p>\n<p>It was a huge event and everyone was very excited about it and happy to be there, it was a great atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>So many families with their children got involved and I noticed so many children making wax balls from the gathered wax that they all collected from the people carrying huge candles. It was heartwarming to see so many families take part in a celebration like this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3409\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29061-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29061-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29061-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29061.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3410\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29071-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29071-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29071-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29071-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29071.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3411 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29081-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29081-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29081-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29081-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/06\/IMG_29081.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was even a custom that on Good Friday, a prisoner would be set free for the day. I\u2019m not so sure I\u2019m a big fan of this tradition!<\/p>\n<p>Muchas gracias por leer este blog y \u00a1hasta la pr\u00f3xima!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a1Bienvenidos todos! I\u2019m now coming to the end of my incredible year abroad experience here in Spain and I\u2019m really going to miss it. It\u2019s just such a different lifestyle [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[268],"tags":[336,42,335,71,197],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","tag-celebrations","tag-erasmus","tag-festivals","tag-spain","tag-year-abroad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4QQbz-SV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3133,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/lingomap-blog-los-festivales-y-las-celebraciones-de-espana\/","url_meta":{"origin":3405,"position":0},"title":"LingoMap Blog: Los festivales y las celebraciones de Espa\u00f1a","author":"Lewis Hacker","date":"March 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a1Hola a todos! \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal? 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Cette fois je suis \u00e0 Paris. Pour quatre mois, mars-juillet, je vais travailler (en tant qu'assistante anglaise) dans une \u00e9cole secondaire \u00e0 Malakoff, une banlieue (suburb) de Paris. Les enfants ont un \u00e2ge similaire \u00e0 ceux que j'ai enseign\u00e9 en Allemagne.\u00a0Dans cette \u00e9cole, j'ai beaucoup plus de\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;European Placements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"European Placements","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/category\/europe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/281\/2018\/04\/french-flag-450x299.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/globetrotters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}