The European festivals are joy filled and have a unique flavor of enjoying their lives in their own special way. The festivals consist of traditional rituals, film festival, carnivals, and bizarre types. July and August months bring a lot of festivity and cheer in the form of the tomato fights of Bunole, Spain when in the last Wednesday of August , the town turns into a bowl of tomato sauce, the running of bulls in the narrow streets of Pamplona Spain in the week of July 6 to 14 ,the people of Cooper's Hill of England Rolling Cheese down hills and the people of Palio Italy enjoying on July 2 and August 16 the bareback, breakneck horse race using whips more on the other riders than on horses.
The Christmas season is fun and festive time to be anywhere in Europe from a few weeks before the holiday until January 6 .Fortunately so far in Europe, Christmas hasn't yet been completely commercialized.
There are crèches or nativity scenes in chapels and public squares all over Europe. Some are modern, others are traditional. In the town of Oberndorf, north of Salzburg, Austria where Silent Night was written, it is sung with gusto on Christmas Eve and the world can watch the pope lean out his window in Rome at noon to give a mass blessing broadcast on December 25.
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