December 25: Christmas Day

In spite of the fact that Christmas is celebrated all over Europe, Malta has its own unique methods for praising its vacation season. Christmas is a gigantic national festival in Malta with a lot of brilliant embellishments and lights.

Christmas Traditions in Malta

Malta is a Catholic nation and an extremely committed one at that. The Merry Christmas season realizes splendid lights and additionally supplication. During Merry Christmas, boulevards and crossroads throughout the Maltese islands are enriched with brilliant lights. Private homes are spruced up with adornments and Christmas trees. The holy places are enriched from all around!

Christmas Traditions at Schools

It is a convention that school youngsters at a young age are educated to sow wheat, grain, and canary seed, on cotton buds few weeks afore Christmas. This is known as 'gulbiena'. These are left oblivious until the seeds create white grass-like shoots. When they are completely developed, they are utilized to beautify the den or set adjacent to statues of Baby Jesus.

Christmas Concerts at Schools

Schools hold Christmas shows before the beginning of the Christmas occasions. These shows include Christmas melodies and relating stories of the Nativity. They additionally include Santa Clause, the Befana or the Baboushka. Nativity events in nearby holy places are well-ordered at 11 pm on Christmas evening. This took after by Midnight Mass to rejoice the birth of Jesus Christ.

Christmas Activities for Children and Family

During December the entire "Ta' Qali" region is changed into a 'Christmas Village' for right around 2 weeks. It has excitement for all the families. At the Popeye Village Fun Park in Mellieha, a territory is changed over into Santa's Toy Town. Here youngsters can watch around 200 enthusiastic elves. They can set up the toys that Santa will convey to kids across the world on Christmas evening. They can play amusements, see Malta's biggest den, and watch string-puppet displays and adore an amusing lunch.