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Public holidays celebrated in Spain include a mix of religious (Roman Catholic), national and regional observances. Each municipality is allowed to have a maximum of 14 public holidays per year; a maximum of nine of these are chosen by the national government and at least two are chosen locally, including patronal festivals .
The category of Fiesta of National Tourist Interest (Spanish: Fiestas de Interés Turístico Nacional, Basque: Interes Turistiko Nazionaleko Jaiak, Catalan: Festes d'Interès Turístic Nacional / Valencian: Festes d'Interés Turístic Nacional, Galician: Festas de Interese Turístico Nacional) in Spain is an honorary designation given by the General Secretariat of Tourism of the Ministry of ...
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National Day of Spain is a holiday throughout the entire country, so all central (national) government's and autonomous communities' (provincial) institutions and administration offices are closed on that day, as are banks and stores. National Day is celebrated in Spain through numerous public and private events organized throughout the country ...
The sardana is a circular.. Among the musical traditions, there is the very special music of the cobles, the wind bands that play sardanes.The sardana is a circular, open dance, that originated in the Empordà region (north of the country by the Mediterranean sea) and the Pyrenees (Catalan Pirineus), and is now danced in many squares and streets all over Catalonia.
Correfoc. La Mercè (Catalan pronunciation: [lə məɾˈsɛ]) is the annual festival (Catalan: festa major) of the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.It has been an official city holiday since 1871, when the local government first organized a program of special activities to observe the Roman Catholic feast day of Our Lady of Mercy (Catalan: La Mare de Déu de la Mercè).
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Holy Week in Viveiro is one of the best known religious events within Galicia. This week features the procession of pasos, floats of lifelike wooden sculptures of individual scenes of the events of the Passion, or images of the Virgin Mary showing restrained grief for the torture and killing of her son. Some of the sculptures are of great ...