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Royal House of the Post Office clock tower, Puerta del Sol, Madrid The twelve grapes ready to be eaten. The Twelve Grapes [1] (Sp. las doce uvas de la suerte, "the twelve grapes of luck") is a Spanish tradition that consists of eating a grape with each of the twelve clock bell strikes at midnight of 31 December to welcome the New Year.
"Hopscotch to oblivion", Barcelona, Spain; an example of dark humor. A hopscotch court drawn such that the area where the final step would be is instead a sheer drop such as a building or cliff, such that any participant would fall to their death upon completion, is a motif occasionally seen in fiction, sometimes as a device for black comedy.
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.
Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 and in English in 1966. For the first U.S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in the translation category.
La Maga (Spanish feminine for "the magician") may refer to: Luciana Aymar (born 1977), Argentinian field hockey player; Magaly Quintana (1952–2019), Nicaraguan feminist historian and activist; a protagonist in the 1963 novel Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar; a character in the Venezuelan telenovela Calypso, which debuted in 1999
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Julio Florencio Cortázar [1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ⓘ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.