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Spain: country of celebrations  By Sandra Prieto Fuertes NA2-A  Spain is well Know for the bullfight and for the flamenco, but not all the celebrations that take places in Spain are based on these two topics. Here we are going to show a small guide of other celebrations. From the north to the south, all over the year, Spain is a celebration.  To start with, on New Year’s Eve the Spanish people are in the habit to eat the 12 lucky grapes with the chime of the bells at midnight, although the celebration is broadcast on live television, you can take active part in the event which take places in La Puerta del Sol in Madrid where thousands of people enjoy theirself. On February you can have a good time with a pagan celebration, the Carnival. You can go to Cadiz or to Canary Island, where in both places the carnival are very famous.  Forty days after that, the celebration of Easter week. This is a religious celebration in which religious statues, candles, flowers, habits and brotherhoods fill the streets all around the Spanish geography. The most famous are the processions of Andalucia, Castilla y León and Murcia.  The spring begins with the Fallas in Valencia where art and fire are combined. On June San Juan where the fire is the main character, on July and August there are thousands of celebrations all around the Spanish geography. On August La Tomatina that is a fight with tomatoes in the streets, is one example of the thousands of celebrations which you can enjoy during summer time. On October and November ‘el magosto’, that is a celebration typical of the North of Spain where the main elements are the fire and chestnuts. And finally on December Christmas, in this time all the streets are illuminated by colored lights.  To conclude, like these examples you can find hundreds of more celebrations, religious or not, in where you can enjoy a lot and find different parts of Spanish culture without bulls and flamenco.