Argentina Celebrations

Argentina is well known for its Argentina celebrations. With numerous national and public holidays being the integral part of Argentina, Argentina celebrations have gained popularity all across the globe. The most popular Argentinian celebrations are the Columbus Day and the World Tango Festival. We even know Argentina as ‘the country of tango’! Hence, we know that World Tango Festival is a grand jubilation time of the year in the whole of the nation.

World’s eighth largest country is Argentina. The entire southern half of South America falls under this country. It covers an area of 2.8 million square km. Argentina is well known for its expansive deserts, impressive waterfalls, and world’s tallest mountains. It has diverse lands that range from undomesticated areas in southern Patagonia to the active capital of Buenos Aires in the north. This special nation is an amalgamation of ethnic and diverse range of groups. It is indeed a country of Spanish and Italian immigrants. The most striking feature of Argentina is that one of the largest Islamic mosques in Latin America is situated here.

Argentine people enjoy many national as well as public festivals and holidays. Some of the Argentina celebrations include public holidays observed in Argentina. These are:

• New Year's Day.
• Epiphany.
• Carnival.
• Holy Thursday.
• Good Friday.
• Labor Day.
• Revolution of May.
• Corpus Christi.
• Independence Day.
• Death of General San Martin.
• All Saints’ Day.
• Bank Holiday.
• Christmas.

Besides, some of the national festivals and celebrations of Argentina include:

• Anniversary of San Martin’s Death or ‘Dia de San Martin’.
• Malvinas Day or ‘Dia de las Malvinas’.
• Flag Day or ‘Dia de la Bandera’.
• Columbus Day.
• World Tango Festival.

Columbus Day and World Tango Festival is the heart of Argentinian festival and celebration. World Tango Day is celebrated for a week or for say, about ten days. Columbus Day is celebrated in order to honor the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World around 1492.

You can know about these two festivals in detail by clicking the given links. Keep browsing the pages of Celebrationsonnet to get more detailed information on festivals and celebrations of Argentina.