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🗓️ 21 December 2020
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0:00.0 | Catalonia is a unique region. They have their own romance language, their own customs and cuisine. |
0:05.0 | And when it comes to the Christmas season, they have their own traditions. |
0:08.0 | In fact, when it comes to the Christmas season, they have some very very very unique traditions. I dare say |
0:14.6 | that their Christmas traditions are firmly ranked number two. Learn more about |
0:19.3 | the Christmas traditions of Catalonia on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. of This episode is sponsored by the Tourist Office of Spain. |
0:38.0 | If you've never been to Spain, you're probably familiar with it even if you don't know it. |
0:42.0 | That's because Spain is used as a |
0:43.6 | filming location for many of the most popular movies and television shows. Much of |
0:48.0 | Game of Thrones was filmed in Spain. Parts of King's Landing was shot in |
0:51.5 | Gerona just meters away from where I lived for several months. |
0:54.8 | Most spaghetti westerns from the 1960s were filmed on location in Spain. |
0:59.0 | Lawrence of Arabia, Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade, Dr. Javago, Star Wars episode 2, Mission Impossible, and the Bourne identity, |
1:06.0 | and many, many other movies have all been shot on location in Spain. |
1:10.0 | You can start researching your dream trip to Spain today by visiting Spain. info where you can get everything you need to know to plan your Spanish adventure. A Christmas nativity scene is a representation in small statues of the birth of Jesus. |
1:28.0 | Most household nativity scenes are just a few statues. |
1:32.0 | You have statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and maybe a few statues. You have statues of Jesus, Mary, and |
1:33.4 | Joseph, and maybe a few animals. Some will even have the three wise men and |
1:37.5 | others will include Shepherds and Angels. The first Nativity scene dates |
1:41.5 | back to St Francis of Assisi in 1223, |
1:44.4 | and he used live actors instead of statues. The idea of reenacting the birth of Christ |
1:49.4 | was approved by the Pope, and soon such scenes started to appear in churches and cities all around Europe. |
1:55.1 | There's still a fixture of many towns today. |
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