How is Christmas Eve celebrated in other countries?
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In Spain, Christmas Eve is celebrated with the family, with a big dinner where seafood and roast meat usually predominate. However, Christmas Eve in other countries is celebrated in a different way, although in most countries there is a special dinner, surrounded by loved ones. Read on if you want to find out how they celebrate Christmas Eve in other countries.
How Christmas Eve is celebrated in other countries
- In Italy they spend Christmas Eve visiting nativity scenes, although they also have dinner with the family where they basically eat seafood and then go to Christmas mass.
- In the United States, families prepare for the arrival of Santa Claus and prepare him some gifts such as cookies.
- In Canada there is a party known as Reveillon, it is held after Christmas Eve mass and lasts until well into the night.
- In Russia, home is blessed. Usually a priest comes to the home and sprinkles holy water on each room. In this way they prepare the house for the new year.
- In China, before Christmas day they take the opportunity to buy gifts, so on Christmas Eve it becomes a whole fair where the priority is shopping.
- In Mexico there is a tradition that on Christmas Eve children go from door to door recreating the story of Mary and Joseph.
- In Denmark they don’t know what Christmas Eve is, they just celebrate Christmas when we are having dinner as a family.
- In Norway, families follow the tradition of lighting a candle from Christmas Eve until New Year’s Day.
- The Icelanders take advantage of this to encourage a love of reading. On Christmas Eve in Iceland, gifts of books are given to family and friends.
