A member of the Languages in Primary Schools (LiPS) Facebook group was asking yesterday which special Spanish days are commonly taught as part of the cultural element of the Key Stage 2 curriculum. Celebrations and festivals are also a part of the new GCSE course in Languages.
Here is a list of all the popular fiestas and días festivos. If I have missed any that are celebrated widely or across the country, or that are popular fiestas from elsewhere in the Hispanic world, please put it in a comment and I'll add it to the list.
You can download my Días Festivos Tarsia and dominoes from here.
1st
January
|
New
Year
|
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5th January
|
Parade
of the Three Kings
|
|
6th
January
|
Day of
the Three Kings / Epiphany
|
|
el Día de San Valentín
|
14th
February
|
Valentine’s
Day
|
14th
February
|
Friendship
Day
|
|
February
|
Carnivals
(take place Thursday before Shrove Tuesday to Shrove Tuesday)
|
|
15th-19th
March
|
The
Falles
|
|
19th
March
|
St
Joseph’s Day / Father’s Day
|
|
March/April
|
Holy
Week
|
|
23rd
April
|
St
George's Day
|
|
23rd
April
|
Book
Day
|
|
April /
May
|
Seville
April Fair (takes place in the 3rd week after Semana Santa)
|
|
1st May
|
Labour Day
|
|
1st
Sunday in May
|
Mother’s
Day
|
|
10th
June
|
Corpus
Christi
|
|
last
week of June
|
St John
festivals
|
|
7th
July
|
St
Fermin’s Day
|
|
15th
August
|
Assumption of Mary
|
|
last
Wednesday in August
|
Tomato-throwing
festival
|
|
12th
October
|
Spain’s
national day
|
|
12th
October
|
Day of
the Spanish-speaking world / Columbus Day
|
|
31st
October – 2nd November
|
Day of
the Dead (not Spain)
|
|
1st
November
|
All
Saints' Day
|
|
6th
December
|
Constitution
Day
|
|
8th
December
|
Day of
the Immaculate Conception
|
|
24th
December
|
Christmas
Eve
|
|
25th
December
|
Christmas
Day
|
|
28th
December
|
Day of
the Holy Innocents (like April Fools’ Day)
|
|
31st
December
|
New
Year’s Eve
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