How Spaniards celebrate the new year Eve??

Partying!! How dare you ask??

But before, of course, there are some familiar tradition as meeting everyone around a table and eat like beasts. Actually in my family we often have leftovers for all the following week.

Some others families can't afford it, what's sad, but everyone does something special this days. And the whole Spain stops for ten minutes, where everyone does the most typical tradition in the new year's eve: "Las Uvas" (The Grapes), where we take one grape per each sound of the clock after midnight. There are 12 bell strokes so we took 12 grapes. People from all around Spain goes to "La Puerta del Sol" of Madrid ( Sun's Gate), the center of the city and country.

You can find there the clock that leads these sounds and all the tv channels and radios broadcast this time

The twelve grapes represent lucky for the next year and 12 wishes that you want to get in this new period of your life.


Happy new year to everyone!!