Christmas+Around+The+World

﻿  Christmas around the world

Ireland:Ireland is celebrated just the same as over in England.

Spain: In Spain they have their Christmas dinner on Christmas eve,while the poor wait till Three Kings Day till they get presents.

France: Father Christmas is called Père Noël. The Christmas meal is an important family gathering with good meat and the best wine. Not everyone sends Christmas cards. everyone has a chistmas tree

Germany:Germans love to decorate their houses at Christmas. Many houses will have little wooden frames holding electric candles in their windows, and coloured pictures of paper or plastic which look beautiful from the outside at night. Often too, they will have an 'Adventskranz' - a wreath of leaves with four candles. (Advent - meaning 'coming' - is the 4 week period before Christmas). On each Sunday of Advent, another candle is lit. Most homes will also have little wooden 'cribs' - a small model of the stable where Jesus was born, with Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, and animals

Belgium: Beligium has presents the same as England But for breakfast they have sweet bread called cougnou.