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Everything Everywhere Daily

Catalonian Christmas Traditions

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Catalonia is a unique region. They have their own Romance language, their own customs, and cuisine, and when it comes to the Christmas season, they have their own traditions. In fact, when it comes to the Christmas season, they have some very very unique traditions. I’d dare say that their Christmas traditions are firmly ranked #2. Learn more about the Christman traditions of Catalonia on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Catalonia is a unique region. They have their own romance language, their own customs and cuisine.

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And when it comes to the Christmas season, they have their own traditions.

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In fact, when it comes to the Christmas season, they have some very very very unique traditions. I dare say

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that their Christmas traditions are firmly ranked number two. Learn more about

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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

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back to St Francis of Assisi in 1223,

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and he used live actors instead of statues. The idea of reenacting the birth of Christ

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was approved by the Pope, and soon such scenes started to appear in churches and cities all around Europe.

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There's still a fixture of many towns today.

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