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A brown Christmas

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Miquel Hudin
Dec 23, 2024
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Christmas in Catalunya is perfectly normal.

Sure, they do the gift giving on January 6th for Three Kings, but there’s still the Sweet Baby Jesus thing on the 25th. It just happens that it’s then followed by Saint Stephen’s Day on the 26th. While anyone British would recognize (recognise) this as Boxing Day, it’s also very much a Catalan thing that isn’t …

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