Christmas Uruguay

It celebrates jesus birth.

Christmas uruguay. On christmas and new years eve people flock to the promenade and the beaches beneath it to drink listen to music and watch the spectacle of fireworks over the sea. Since most restaurants are either closed or offer set menus on these dates a good alternative is to buy lechon cold roasted suckling pig uruguay s traditional food for these. You know nativity figurines. This christian festivity commemorates the birth of jesus and is part of a 22 28 day season in the christian calendar known as advent.

Christmas in uruguay january 16 2019 admin blog drawings wanting a break from bustling noisy buenos aires and on the recommendation of a tango friend from there i chose to spend a few days over christmas in montevideo uruguay. Christmas day on december 25 is one of the most festive christian holidays in many countries around the world. Is christmas day a public holiday. We make a pine tree and a menger i think is the word.

It s a family tradition so family gets together. Christmas in uruguay christmas fireworks uruguay first of all there is no such a thing as white christmas in uruguay for two reasons. Christmas day is a public holiday. Christmas in uruguay is celebrated with a public holiday every 25 december as it is in a majority of countries around the world.

The first one is that in this hemisphere is summer time the second being that it never snows in uruguay a great deal of uruguayans don t know snow so even if it were winter it wouldn t be white anyway.