dimarts, 2 de desembre del 2008

new indoor festival

As with all the festivals celebrated in Catalonia in autum the "castanyada" is a celebration that is held indoors.
On the evening of October 31 families and friends get together at home and once dinner a selection of cheesnuts, sweet potatoes and the small dense cakes know as panellets.
These days, the Anglosaxon tradition of halloween is increasingly popular among catalans.
The they after, people venture outside of the day of Tots Sants and the cementeries fill up with people visiting their decased loves ones.

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