Semana Santa, or Holy Week, is the most important religious celebration in Spain and takes place during the week leading up to Easter Sunday. If you’re lucky enough to be in Spain during Easter, watching one or more of the Semana Santa parades is a must. They’re unlike anything you’ll have seen before. There are…
As the Christmas season approaches, you’re sure to come across one of the most beloved festive traditions in Spain – the Belén. These popular nativity scenes can be found in most towns and villages and are one of our favourite parts of Christmas in Spain. If you’ve never visited a Belén before, or would just…
I have to start by saying that Spain obviously isn’t the most Christmassy destination you could head to! While there are certainly some cold areas in the north of Spain and plenty of places to find snow in Spain, the Costas are much less festive. The average December temperate in Alicante on the Costa Blanca…
It’s that time of the year again on the Costa Blanca – the Moors and Christians fiestas, or Moros y Cristianos in Spanish. These are some of our favourite Spanish fiestas and are always well worth a watch. Wherever you are on the Costa Blanca, you will no doubt see Moors and Christians parades advertised…
We’ve recently had 2 separate people contact us through the blog and social media asking if we know anything about foreigners getting married in Spain. It’s not something we have personal experience of, so we pointed them both towards some official resources. However, I did some reading up on the subject and it seems like…
If you have spent some time in Spain around Christmas time, you can’t have missed mentions of Los Reyes Magos or the Three Kings. It’s a great Spanish tradition that we highly recommend seeing, and for many Spaniards, Los Reyes Magos are a bigger deal than Father Christmas, with even bigger celebrations. But what is…
Friday 13th is well known as the unluckiest day of the year around the world. If you’re at all superstitious you probably take more care than usual on this day, blaming anything unfortunate that happens on it being Friday 13th. However, it isn’t actually considered unlucky in all countries. Did you know that in Spain,…
Easter, or Semana Santa, in Spain is quite a different celebration than in the UK. We noticed that Christmas is so much less commercialised here, and Easter seems to be the same. Though of course there is certain food eaten during Semana Santa. Semana Santa (Holy Week) is much more about the religious aspect of…
Easter in Spain is a big celebration. Easter week in Spain is known as Semana Santa or Holy Week. There are some spectacular processions in most of the villages, towns and cities in Spain at this time of year – not like anything you’ll see anywhere else. Semana Santa is still a big part of…
All countries have their own traditions, especially when it comes to celebrating Christmas and the New Year. In Spain, there are quite a few traditions and superstitions that we discovered when we spent our first festive period here last year. So, if you’re spending Nochevieja (New Year’s Eve or ‘old night’) in Spain, or just…
