Etiqueta 'Grapes of luck in Spain'
New Year's Eve celebrations in Palma

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Joy of the Twelve Grapes

According to the ritual, each individual grape, swallowed on a bell strike, guarantees the joy of prosperity through one coming month of the New Year.

Peter Clover29/12/2023 13:27

New Year's Eve celebrations in Palma

New Year's Eve celebrations in Palma

New Year's Eve celebrations at Plaza Cort.

LAURA BECERRA 01/01/2023

It was in the late 1850s that Madrid residents started to congregate in the Puerta del Sol on the night of December 31 to celebrate the start of the new year

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A whimper of a welcome for 2021

There’s one New Year’s Eve tradition that will still be very much in place: the grapes of good luck.

Andrew Valente30/12/2020 16:16