Valencia!!!

You should come to Valencia and have the time of your life!

Valencia is a big city in spain it has great sites to see and many things to do. They have many ancient buildings to see like the hemispheric at the ciutatde les arts i les cienciles or the cathedral of Valencia wich has great gothic architecture.

Another popular spot for tourist and locals!!!

Valensia also has squares and gardens to see. The largets square is the Placa de l'Ajuntam. this place has the town hall, a cinema which shows clasic movies, and many resturants and bars. During las Fallas this is were you can see and here lots of noisy fireworks. The Falles is a Valencia traditional celebrationin praise of saint Joseph.this spot is the Placa de la Verge. It has many resturants and bars and lots of stuff to see including the turia Fountain. I bet these places have gift shops to spend your money on souvenirs!!

Valencia also has the biggest aquarium in all of Erope. Ciutat de laes Arts i de les Ciencies. The aquarium is also known as the L'Oceanografic (Oceanographic Park). The aquarium hold 500 plus animal speices. This will take all day so it is best to plan ahead. It ia a good place to take young people after seeing all the historic parts of valencia. They also have dolphin shows all day long.

Valencia sounds like fun with all the stuff to see and i didn't even tell you about all of it hope you go and havefun in valencia, Spain!!!

Semana Santa

Semana santa is what spanish speaking countries call Holy week. Schools in mexico get two eeks off of school so this also counts for their spring break. All the celebrations of easter don't start untill a week before. This is because easter falls on a sunday after the pashfull moon and Holy week is an antire week before that.

This is some ways spanish people celebrate Plam sunday.Palm Sunday or Domingo de Ramos is on the Sunday prior to easter. According to the Bible Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the people in the streets laid down palm branches in his path. In many towns and villages in Mexico on this day there are processions reenacting Jesus' triumphal entry, and woven palms are sold outside churches.

Maundy Thursday - Jueves Santo or Holy thursday. On this day most people go and visit seven churches to recall the vigil of the apostels kept in the garden while Jesus prayed before is arrest. So they have foot washing ceremonies and mass with Holy communion.

Good Friday - Viernes Santo . This day Good Friday recalls the crucifixion of Christ. People dress in costumes to react the time of Jesus.Passion plays, dramatic recreations of the crucifixion of Christ, are presented in many communities. The largest takes place in Iztapalapa, south of Mexico City, where over a million people gather every year for the Via Crucis.

Holy Saturday - Sabado de Gloria. In some places there is a custom of burning Judas in effigy because of his betrayal of Jesus.

Easter Sunday - Domingo de Pascua. people don't talk about Easter, chocolate,bunnys or eggs even tho it is easter Sunday in mexico. This is generally a day when people go to Mass and celebrate quietly with their families, though in some places there are festivities with fireworks.