Saint Patrick´s day is celebrated in Ireland and it is on 17th of March. It symbolizeS Saint Patrick´s death.
In this festival all the people are dress with green clothes, because the green colour is a lucky thing.
Another lucky things are the Spring, shamrocks and Chicago river, because all this things are green.
If you aren´t dress of green in that day, the people can pinch you. It is a american tradition. They think that the green colour could make you invisible to avoid pinches. In the beginning of the St Patrick´s day, the people dressed of blue.
There are a lot of traditions in St Patrick´s day. For example the Irish people eat meat with sprouts.
Also, if you see a Leprechaun you should have catch him because it has a pot full of money and gold.
Another Irish food are potatoes, fish, broccoli and carrots.
Saint Patrick´s legend tells that he throw out a lot of snakes of there. And the people make some jokes related with this success.
One traditional drink are the beer. Without drinking Black Irish beer the celebration isn´t the same.
In Spain, Saint Patrick´s day is celebrated too. It is join in Galicia, in a village of Pontevedra. This party is join there because this city has association with the Irish tradition. And more or less 4.000 people join it.
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