| Christmas Traditions in Argentina |
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| People in Argentina celebrate Christmas with great joy and devotion. On Christmas people in Argentina visit churches and have a family gathering. After the Christmas feast at midnight the people in Argentina dance while some of them go out to see the fire works. Before going to bed the Christmas gifts that are kept beneath the Christmas trees are opened. The people in Argentina regard Christmas to be an important day to celebrate the birth of Christ. | |
The Christmas dinner in Argentina includes pork, turkey and a variety of other meals. After the Christmas dinner one can find the table being covered with sweet things like cider, beer and juices.
The people in Argentina eagerly wait for the time of the toast. The toast is a drink prepared with different kinds of fruits that are cut into pieces and mixed with juice and cider.
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The family members after the toast either chat or play Christmas games and enjoy the Christmas celebrations. The people in Argentina place Father Christmas Boots on the doors and decorate houses with red and white garlands. The Christmas trees are beautifully decorated with ornaments and colored lights with Father Christmas placed on top of it.
Different kinds of Christmas meals like roasted turkey, roasted pork, stuffed tomatoes, mince pies and Christmas's bread and puddings are special treats for Christmas.
In Argentina people wish each other on Christmas saying “Feliz Navidad which means Merry Christmas. On the midnight of Christmas people in Argentina celebrate it with a nativity scene.
Decorating the Christmas trees beautifully, exchanging Christmas gifts, picnics, banquets, champagne, fireworks and baking delicious cakes for Christmas are all an important part of the Christmas celebrations.
The famous Christmas recipes in Argentina include cakes with sidra topping served with dessert. The Christmas drinks would be incomplete without Champagne. |
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