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Get to know the main festivals, traditions and monuments of Spain by coloring the giant map with your family. Do you think you will know them all?
The colouring map of Spain contains all kinds of details and emblematic elements representing the culture and traditions of Spain. Do you think you can name them all?
Enjoy and learn from this activity with family or friends.
We began our journey with the map of Spain featuring the San Fermin festival. As tradition dictates, we dressed in white with a red sash and a matching scarf around our necks. The bull runs were incredibly thrilling! Brave men and women showed their courage running alongside fierce bulls. We watched from the sidelines. It was quite scary!
It's a spectacle you can't miss. Men and women of all ages form teams, called "collas," which can consist of over 200 people. Together, with passion, teamwork, and extensive training, they create these human towers, sometimes reaching up to 9 stories high! You can witness this at many festivals held in Catalonia and the northern part of the Valencian Community.
If there's a magical night, it's Saint John's night, when at midnight on June 24-25, the bonfires begin to burn all over the city of Alicante. We went to the beach where we burned old junk, symbolizing the bad, and jumped over the fire making a wish. I hope it comes true!
This festival is a real madness where you'll unleash adrenaline. It's a battle in which, in just one hour, thousands of people from all over the world throw 150 tons of tomatoes at each other in an atmosphere of joy and camaraderie. As advice, I'll tell you not to wear your best clothes because I doubt you'll be able to use them again.
The brotherhoods parade with images of the Virgin Mary or Christ, depicting events from the Passion of Christ. It is a tradition during this week to pardon a well-behaved prisoner whose crimes are minor. Legend has it that in 1759, processions were suspended in Málaga due to a plague. However, the prisoners themselves organized a procession and voluntarily returned to prison, and miraculously, the epidemic ended.
In our colouring map of Spain you will find a document, in Spanish and English, with lots of curiosities that will surprise you. Here are some of them!
Written by Miguel de Cervantes, between 1,200 and 1,500 copies of the first edition were printed. Today, it is believed that more than 400 million copies have been sold worldwide and has been translated into over 50 languages, second only to the Bible.
Studying the map of Spain, we can see that there are around 2,500 fortifications, not including towers, citadels, fortresses, or other types of defense elements. The highest concentration of castles is located in the province of Jaén, which, along with Syria and Palestine, is the place in the world with the highest number of towers, watchtowers, fortresses, and castles per square kilometer.
We’ve also been fascinated by the pilgrims walking the Way of Saint James. So many kilometres of adventure and companionship, so many memories I’d love to share with the little ones. We have to do it one year!
