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Día de San Juan Bautista. Fiestas de San Juan. Since John the Baptist is the patron saint of the Island and the namesake of the capital city , his day is widely celebrated by big parties on the beaches on the Eve of St. John's Day (June 23). One tradition is to walk backward into the ocean and fall in 12 times at midnight on the beginning of ...
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The traditional midsummer party in Spain is the celebration in honour of Saint John (Spanish: San Juan, Catalan: Sant Joan, Galician: San Xoán) [49] and takes place on the evening of June 23. This midsummer tradition is especially strong in coastal areas of Spain, like in Galicia , where San Xoán festivals take place all over the region ...
Festival of San Juan; Saint Jonas Day; Jaaniõhtu; Festa Junina; See also Saint John's Eve; August 29, an Eastern Orthodox feast commemorating his beheading; September 23 an Eastern Orthodox feast celebrating his conception; a Roman Catholic and Lutheran feast celebrating his conception; Thout 2, a Coptic Orthodox feast
El Dia de San Juan is celebrated in Tucson, Arizona, United States. According to tradition, this day marks the beginning of the monsoon season. There is a legend that the Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado prayed for rain on June 24, 1540. Right after his prayers, it rained.
It's typically celebrated on June 24, the same day as Inti Raymi, a traditional ceremony from Incan times that coincides with the June solstice. Inti Raymi is a ritual observed in the Ecuadorian highlands where people give thanks to "Pachamama", or "Mother Earth", and Inti, the sun god, for a good harvest and agricultural blessings. [ 1 ]
If you're a fan of "Mean Girls," you know the date of October 3 is slightly more "fetch" than the other days of the year.Since the release of the hit comedy movie in 2004, Oct. 3 has commonly been ...
The festival which is now held at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center in San Juan, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006 with a performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra under the musical direction of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach. The Prades Festival established by Casals in France in 1950 was renamed the Pablo Casals Festival in 1982.