Get our your castanets and your dancing shoes – because it’s time for a fiesta. This Friday, Spain will be celebrating their national day and, unlike in the UK - where most people don’t even know when St George’s Day is, let alone what to do when it rolls round – the Spanish will be getting ready to party like it’s 1492.
On 12th October, Spain honours Columbus’s discovery of the New World with National Day celebrations in Madrid’s Plaza de Colon. The day also remembers Spanish soldiers killed in war, and it is tradition that the monarch of Spain receives a bayleaf laurel from veteran soldiers. They’ll also be painting the town – and the sky – red, when aeronautical displays create the colours of the Spanish flag in the clouds.
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