FRANCE France This is perhaps one of

FRANCE! • France! This is perhaps one of the most mysterious, beautiful and desirable country. • France, like all other countries, has its history, its culture, traditions and customs. But there is something that has absorbed all of this in myself, having done thus, a kind of mirror, a reflection of that finding and culture, and history and tradition. This, of course, go on holidays. • Holidays in France - a unique phenomenon. Their uniqueness lies in the colorful variety and combination of provincial cultures, the origins of which date back to antiquity and the Middle Ages. • In France, dozens of major cities and hundreds of small villages. In each of these sites have developed their own traditional festivals and festive culture. The French jealously observe the traditions of their regions, which carry a separate uniqueness and originality. Among these festivals and religious celebrations of the saints, and ancient carnivals and festivals.

• Франция, как и все другие страны, имеет свою историю, свою культуру, традиции и обычаи. Но есть нечто, что вобрало все это в себя, сотворив тем самым, некое зеркало, отражение в котором находят и культура, и история, и традиции. Речь, конечно же, пойдет о праздниках. • Праздники во Франции - уникальное явление. Уникальность их заключается в пёстром разнообразии и сочетании провинциальных культур, истоки которых восходят к античности и средневековью. • Во Франции десятки крупных городов и сотни маленьких деревушек. В каждом из этих мест сложились свои традиционные праздники и праздничная культура. Французы ревностно соблюдают традиции своих областей, которые несут в себе отдельную уникальность и самобытность. Среди этих праздников и религиозные чествования святых, и древние карнавалы, и фестивали.

New Year's holiday, France New Year in France is called the day of Saint Sylvester. His day falls on Dec. 31. New Year, like Christmas - a family reunion New Year was celebrated with friends somewhere in a cafe, restaurant or nightclub, the windows are decorated with attractive designs and inscriptions. During the New Year's dinner dance, tell jokes, wear peaked caps and throw confetti at each other or ribbon streamers. One of the favorite Christmas entertainment Frenchmen - the lottery. You can win a turkey, chicken or even pork.

Festive table decorated with mistletoe. According to legend, the plant brings good luck. Traditional food. . . Again, blood sausage, roast goose or turkey, pig's head, peas, beans, lentils, nuts, chestnuts, bread with milk, sweets. Can not do without foie gras. As for gifts, then there is nothing concrete. Do not be mistaken, if present any funny, elegant, stylish, original, or just a nice little thing. .

FEAST OF EPIPHANY CATHOLIC • This is one of the most moving events, passing on the first Sunday of January, when, in the evangelical tradition, the three eastern king. Magi brought gifts to the newborn Christ. In this day and decided to make donations to meet the family table.

In February, Nice - it's carnival. One of the three largest in the world: Venice, Rio, Nice. The first day of the celebration participants and spectators greeted His Majesty Carnival, and at night choose the queen of the holiday

Carnival - it's sesquicentennial flower battle. Flower parade - a real parade of about 20 platforms, decorated with fresh flowers. 40005000 stems need to cover these platforms, 7 meters long, 2 meters wide and 6 feet tall. The design and preparation - it's a long and painstaking work with each flower individually placed in a wonderful fragrant mosaic. For each event florists perform feats of imagination, taste, strength, agility and speed.

Feast of St. Valentine's Day • This romantic holiday loving couples celebrate throughout the day would. and France lovers give each other valentines heart shaped with best wishes, love declarations, marriage proposal or jokes that do not sign up, and getting himself must guess from whom they are.

• Besides a couple give each other roses as a symbol of love, candy, hearts, and other souvenirs with the image of hearts, kissing birds and, of course, recognized symbol of Valentine's Day - a small winged angel Cupid.

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Catholic Easter • Sun April 12. French congratulating relatives, friends and even not so much with the religious dates, but with something good, and spring happy. The many European countries has become a popular character in the Easter bunny

• Already a month before Passover in all the stores in France starts selling chocolate eggs, chickens, roosters and rabbits. On the day of Easter, early in the morning, parents hide chocolate eggs in the garden, the children woke up to find them under bushes, in the flowers in the grass, and they pile the eggs into the basket and polish them for breakfast.

DAY OF MUSIC • June 21 - the longest daylight hours and holiday music throughout France. This romantic red date calendar was born in 1982 thanks to the Minister of France, Jacques Langres and held at the summer solstice.

The music in this day heard everywhere: in concert halls, on streets, in homes. Everyone who knows how to play musical instruments to play, who knows how to sing - sing, who can dance - dance, those who are completely devoid of every talent, listen to the performers, and enjoy life together.

BASTILLE DAY • Bastille Day - a national holiday in France. The siege and capture of the Bastille - one of the greatest events in human history. It has become a symbol of all the progress of political liberation through revolution, the very word "Bastille" became a household word.

• The official program includes a series of celebration balls: balls of fire, Big Ball, which takes place July 13 in the garden of the Tuileries. In itself, Bastille Day is a solemn military parade on the Champs Elysees. Parade begins at 10 am with Etoile and moves in the direction of the Louvre, it takes the presidency. At the Place de la Concorde in front of the famous Arc de Triomphe, erected a special place for the spectators. The ending is a big holiday fireworks and fireworks at the Eiffel Tower and Mars fields. This pyrotechnic noise usually starts at 10 pm.

• Официальная программа празднования предусматривает серию балов: балы пожарных, Большой бал, который происходит 13 июля в саду Тюильри. В сам День взятия Бастилии проходит торжественный военный парад на Елисейских полях. Парад начинается в 10 часов утра с Этуаль и двигается в сторону Лувра, принимает его президент Франции. На площади Конкорд напротив знаменитой Триумфальной арки воздвигнуты специальные места для зрителей. Финалом праздника становится большой салют и фейерверк у Эйфелевой башни и Марсовых полях. Этот пиротехнический шум начинается обычно в 10 часов вечера.