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Cities Switch On Christmas Programs Across Spain as Argentina Marks Dec. 8 Holiday

Expanded lighting, belenes and markets are being used to draw visitors and keep festive programming running through early January.

Overview

  • Zaragoza rolled out a roughly €1.2 million lighting push featuring a 1.3‑kilometer Route of Light, a new Ferris wheel, an eight‑meter illuminated belén and the Boreal immersive show scheduled with timed evening passes through January 6.
  • Valladolid, Burgos and Gijón published daily lighting hours and locations, with Valladolid’s installations by Ximénez Iluminación and city‑center spectacles and videomapping set on defined dates.
  • Extremadura spotlighted major living and monumental nativity scenes as seasonal cultural draws, while Torrent celebrates the Purísima with a procession, fireworks and the evening inauguration of its Monumental Belén.
  • El Espinar officially lit its decorations with a children’s videomapping, opened the ‘La Navidad es Verde’ market and outlined concerts, contests and activities that extend into January.
  • Argentina observes the Inmaculada Concepción as a national holiday that customarily starts home tree‑building, with Salta’s Plaza 9 de Julio tree lighting at 21:00 and Jujuy parishes holding novenas and December 12 processions led by Bishop Daniel Fernández.