Carnaval is another important holiday for Spanish-speaking countries. Carnaval is one of the wildest holidays occurring on February twelfth to the seventeenth. It is usually a five day celebration. “Carnaval is celebrated generally with parades, costumes, floats music and dancing in the streets” (“Carnaval in Mexico”). During Carnaval everyone participates in a series of events and activities. The tradition is to throw and break cascarones, confetti filled eggshells, over each other. Carnaval is like State fairs that the United States celebrates.
Holy week is a religious celebration that starts on the Sunday before Easter and ends the day leading up to Easter Sunday. Each city in the Spanish-speaking countries has its own unique Holy week celebration. Holy week is when civilians present a story of the passion of Christ in a series of processions through the streets showing stories from the fall and rise of Jesus Christ. Each day there is a group of processions picked form one brotherhood in the city, made up of floats that are carried from their church to the cathedral and back