Unusual New Year S Eve Traditions Around The World

May this italian style lentil soup bring you good taste and good fortune in the new year.

Unusual new year s eve traditions around the world. In denmark people jump off of their chairs in unison at midnight. A new year s eve dinner usually features this legume to bring on luck in the coming year. Bored with the usual new years eve party.

In denmark people take pride in the number of broken dishes outside of their door by the end of new year s eve. Eat a grape with every strike of the bell at midnight for prosperity only then can you say happy new year. Find new ways to celebrate with 10 unusual traditions from around the world.

Fireworks blasting off the ball dropping kissing a loved one toasting with champagne etc. But before we get to that here s a fun fact. We ve curated some of the most interesting and unique new year s eve traditions from around the world below.

Pork is often added to lentil dishes in the form of cotechino a spicy sausage or zampone a deboned pig trotter to represent the plenitude of the land. From a brazilian offering of white flowers to the sea goddess to magical bear dances in romania these new year s traditions are all supposed to bring good fortune and prosperity in their own unique way. Many of the world s new year s traditions revolve around the stroke of midnight.

Not just for new year s explore spain all year round on one of our small group tours. 12 weird new year s eve traditions around the world. Many of us celebrate the arrival of a new year with a glass of fizz a plate of food and some fireworks but communities around the world will ring in 2016 with a number of weird and wonderful.

Insider has rounded up some of the most fascinating new year s eve celebrations around the world. It s a danish tradition to throw china at your friend s and neighbor s front doors on new year s eve some say it s a means of leaving any aggression and ill will behind before the new year begins and it is said that the bigger your pile of broken dishes the more luck you will have in the upcoming year. Other familiar celebrations include sydney australia where the stroke of midnight is met with dazzling fireworks erupting from barges on the water in sydney harbor illuminating the harbor bridge and the sydney opera house.