New Year Traditions Europe

In belgium new year s eve is called sint sylvester vooranvond or saint sylvester eve.

New year traditions europe. Ensuring you health and good luck. There is usually common celebration on dome square with hot wine stage with musicians playing and tv widescreen. There are a lot of new year s traditions that are ubiquitous across the globe.

The cities cafes and restaurants are crowded with people who bid farewell to the old year. At midnight everyone kisses exchanges good luck greetings and drinks toasts to absent relatives and friends. As is the case for most holidays in italy italian new year s eve mainly revolves around food.

Now both are equally celebrated. But there is nothing really special to report about. One of the reasons we travel is to delve into new cultures and when it comes to bringing in the new year there are plenty of bizarre customs across europe for us to enjoy.

7 9 12 are the good luck numbers for the new year in estonia so the estonians have to celebrate it by eating the same number of dishes to attract good luck. On december 31 italians traditionally sit down with their loved ones for a huge meal after all the italian word for a new year s eve dinner is cenone which means big dinner. New year is widely celebrated in latvia due to strong traditions since soviet times when new year was a big holiday not christmas.