New year on Canary Islands is celebrated at all how in other countries. For the majority канарцев is time of the big cares: hundreds hotels are filled with the tourists demanding attention, there is a gathering of the colours which have been specially grown up for sending in the winter in northern countries, and, of course, many forces preparation and carrying out of holidays takes away. 

First of all is a night before Christmas (Nochebuena). Which is celebrated on December, 24th in honour of Jesus Christ birth. For this event almost in each house prepare from a moss and clay figures a breadboard model of a shed with the image of a scene of a birth of the baby of the Christ. At this scene necessarily there are popular characters of an iconographic scene: Jos?’s Dignity and Maiden Maria, the burro and a cow which the breath have warmed the newborn, an angel and shepherds with herd of the sheep, three magic Kings on camels (Melchor, Gaspar and Baltazar), the aromas which have presented to the Christ, мирру and gold.

After a supper all go to church to listen to a Christmas mass. Next day, in the Christmas, close and distant relatives gather for a family dinner with a traditional turkey or the dairy pig, accompanied by wine and champagne and obligatory sweets (turrones) which prepare specially for this case.

On December, 28th Day Ingenuous is celebrated: innocent draws and innocent jokes sound from different directions. And, if this day you read in the newspaper that the Football club of Tenerife became the world champion, and the Canary government sells a volcano of Tejde of the company Walt Disney to transport it to the United States, - think twice before to believe.

On December, 31st - New year! Meet its champagne, dances and, by old Spanish tradition, it is necessary to eat twelve виноградин during a New Year’s striking of a clock. If at you it turns out, in New year all your desires will be granted.

On January, 6th in Day of the Epiphany, (la Epifania), three Magic Kings whom we saw at Jesus Christ cradle, bring gifts to children who well conducted itself(himself) - toys, and disobedient - coal, certainly, sugar. In all cities and settlements these days processions in which the main participants are three Magic Kings with the retinues distributing to sweet to children are spent.

After New Year’s holidays, without losing day, канарцы continue preparation for a carnival which is annually spent on islands in the end of February - the beginning of March. It is necessary to make so that the new carnival became better than the past. And it is new dances and songs, fantastic dresses of “queens” and маскарадные processions, moving in beat sambas on city streets… And any improvisation, - all should be in advance prepared.

If you this day have appeared on islands, do not remain in a room of the hotel, go out of doors, divide pleasure of holidays with канарцами. And if will try Christmas туррон, or receive a gift from Magic Kings, or, can be will carry, and you will see rehearsal карнавальной comparsa