New Year in Spain, and winter in Europe

If you want to celebrate the New Year in an unusual way, we offer you the material on how to celebrate the New Year in Spain. We have already written about how a financially free person can celebrate the New Year in Turkey , Spain is another option. Contents:

• Introduction
• How New Year is celebrated in Spain
• New Year in Madrid
• New Year in Barcelona
• Christmas in Spain
• Spanish New Year Traditions
• Ski resorts in Spain for New Year
• How to spend New Year in Spain as an investor and earn money
• What does Deniz Estate offer?

Buy an apartment or flat in Spain in one of the hotel complexes in the south of the country, on the Mediterranean coast and celebrate the New Year swimming in the warm sea, or buy a villa or private house with a view of the mountains in the northern part of Spain and celebrate skiing or snowboarding – the choice is yours. The main thing is that Spain offers almost any option for the most sophisticated gourmets.

How New Year is celebrated in Spain

The Spanish celebrate the New Year very actively and noisily. It is difficult to call this holiday a family holiday at the New Year's meal. Most Spaniards go to the night streets of their cities and towns and celebrate in bars, restaurants, discos and during mass and noisy public festivities until the morning. Frankly speaking, the New Year in Spain is only the culmination of the holidays. The Spanish begin to celebrate on December 6 – Constitution Day and then on December 8, when the birthday of the Virgin Mary is celebrated. Both holidays are state holidays and open the so-called Christmas period of celebrations, which lasts until January 6.

New Year in Madrid

On New Year's Eve in Madrid, people go out to the central square, Puerta del Sol, where they celebrate noisily, congratulate each other, drink wine and champagne, and wait for the main event of the New Year – the chimes. Thousands of Madrid residents and tourists from all over the world gather here, and the television broadcast is transmitted to many other countries. When the chimes begin, people eat 12 grapes together, following the New Year's tradition, and then celebrate until the morning in cafes, bars, and restaurants. In clubs, people dance and have fun in every way, not forgetting to choose their "betrothed" – another Spanish tradition of fortune telling for a wedding on New Year's Day.

Madrid is located in the center of Spain and is not on the sea coast. It is a large business center and if you buy an apartment here, it is not the best place to turn it into a working business when you are not there. However, it is also a great investment, in addition to the fact that you will be able to visit Madrid regularly for Christmas and New Year.

New Year in Barcelona

In Barcelona, the celebration is similar, only the central square here is Catalonia. Here, they also eat 12 grapes, and you have to spit out the seeds before the end of 12 chimes. Then dancing, games, fortune telling and fireworks last until the morning. You can get to the New Year's carnival, during which it is customary to throw candies and sweets. This symbolizes getting rid of everything bad and the beginning of something new. Barcelona offers a wide variety of Christmas and New Year celebrations. The city itself is located on the coast of the Balearic Sea (part of the Mediterranean), and the nearest ski resorts of La Molina and Masella are only about 150 km away, about two hours by car.

Buying a villa in Barcelona or an apartment to spend the winter in sunny Spain is a great purchase. And, of course, to celebrate the New Year here in the winter. Among other things, you will also get constant access to the warm Mediterranean coast during the period when in Ukraine and Russia there are frosts, slush, mud, rain with wet snow and icy roads.

Christmas in Spain

Christmas holidays in Spain begin on December 8, when the Spaniards celebrate the day of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, the future Mother of God. From this day until January 6, the feast of the Three Kings (who came to worship the newborn Jesus), all of Spain celebrates Christmas. This is the main holiday here, and New Year is just an addition to it.

From December 8th, beautiful and lavish religious services begin to take place in Spain, and the best place to watch such a service is in Seville. Every year, a lavish religious service is held in front of the majestic city cathedral. The event is diluted with complex symbolic dances by dressed-up boys. In Valencia, too, a lavish service is held on New Year's Eve, during which the statue of the Virgin Mary is traditionally and solemnly carried from the sanctuary to the mountain. Christmas itself in Spain is considered a quiet family holiday over a Christmas meal, where the main dishes are usually seafood – crabs, lobsters, mollusks and other crustaceans. Among other things, many Spaniards eat turkey with truffles – another traditional Spanish dish during the Christmas holidays. And, of course, the Spaniards drink a lot of cava – traditional Spanish sparkling wine. Where would we be without it!

The Spanish Santa Claus is called Papa Noel and he is very different from the European one. He does not bring gifts, but only brings a festive mood. According to Spanish tradition, gifts are brought by the Three Kings and Olentzero – another New Year's character of Spain.

• he is dressed in traditional Spanish coal miner's clothing,
• puts presents not under the tree, but on the windowsill,
• carries a flask of excellent Spanish wine and smokes a pipe.

Spanish New Year Traditions

Communication at churches . A few hours before the New Year, people gather at churches and begin to communicate with each other. Usually at this time they simply remember the events of the past year and share them with each other. 12 grapes under the chimes . Spain is a country of grapes and in this regard, grapes in Spain symbolize prosperity and success. On New Year's Eve, under the chimes, regardless of where you celebrate the holiday – in the square or at the table with your family, you need to have time to eat 12 grapes under the 12 chimes. In addition, you need to have time to spit out the seeds before the chimes end. This tradition symbolizes a happy life during all 12 months of the year, and those who fully invested in time can count on the fulfillment of their most cherished desire. Red underwear on New Year's Eve. This is the youngest tradition, originating from an older one – to wear some kind of red accessory during the New Year celebration. It is believed that red brings good luck. And in general, Spain is very sensitive to the color red, just look at the flag of this country. Fortune telling about the "betrothed". This is more of a tradition of celebrating youth. They write the names of friends, acquaintances and girlfriends on pieces of paper, and then draw lots. Formed couples behave like "lovers", but often quite a few couples are formed this way. New Year's cotillion. People celebrating in the squares give each other a cotillion – a New Year's bag filled with festive paraphernalia – masks, fireworks, balloons, etc. You can open it only after the chimes strike, so you can have a good time.

Ski resorts in Spain for New Year

There are currently more than thirty ski resorts in Spain, each of which offers a high level of service, a wide variety of ski slopes and excellent prices. And, of course, they are all open on New Year's, since an incredible number of tourists come to Spain for the New Year holidays. For residents of the post-Soviet countries, Spanish ski resorts will definitely be many times better than the Carpathians, the Caucasus or even Bulgaria. The best Spanish ski resorts:

• Sierra Nevada
• Baker's Beret
• Port del Comte
• Panticosa Los Lagos
• Valdelinares

Foreigners, planning a vacation in Spain, usually ask themselves: what is better – to rent a hotel room or to rent an apartment or house? For a one-time vacation, this, by and large, does not matter. But if you plan to vacation in Spain on a regular basis, Deniz-Estate offers you an unusual alternative – to buy an apartment in Spain and provide not only a stable quality vacation for yourself and your family, but also to turn it into a passive income tool.

How to spend New Year in Spain as an investor and earn money

We have been doing business with Spanish real estate for almost eight years, have studied the market well, have our own representative office in Spain and our own consultants who can conduct online and offline tours of promising properties. Our clients have already made more than one successful business on our offers from Spanish developers. Therefore, if you want to have an unforgettable New Year in Spain on a regular basis, and also have a stable and reliable source of income, we are on the same path.

What does Deniz Estate offer?

We offer not only the attractive opportunity to relax on the Spanish coast, but also a stable investment business:

• We select highly liquid properties (houses, apartments, villas) for our investors in real estate abroad;
• We support the transaction “turnkey” and after. We provide any specialized assistance – legal, translators, transfers, hotel accommodation during the inspection of the property, etc.
• We calculate the real figures for the profitability of certain investments (either for resale or for rental business) taking into account all the features of the location and the Spanish market as a whole. And believe me, there are quite a few of them.
• We help you select a management company for your business so that you can only control it using online tools. We make our clients' business comfortable.
• We become your reliable support in the world of investments in foreign real estate not only in Spain, but also in other countries of the world.

By purchasing a property with us, you will be able to regularly vacation in Spain whenever you wish, and in the remaining time turn your property into a profitable business! [special_block]