Christmas! The most beautiful and most mysterious holiday of the year. The holiday, which carries the symbolism of the birth of new life, the coming of the Savior.

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The human race it for centuries combine with the image of the baby Jesus lying in the manger. Images that can excite even the most hardened of hearts and tune it to the frequency of peace and love. The image that has the power to transfer our thoughts into childhood, a period of great expectations and warm family atmosphere.

Merry Christmas mean to Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, and are in addition to Easter and Pentecost most important event of the church calendar. Christmas tradition is so strong that it is widely celebrated by people who profess Christianity.

Often, however, mistakenly associate mainly with Christmas Eve, when handing out gifts and families sit down to dinner. December 24 is not a direct part of Christmas, but on the last day of Advent and Lent originally day. Many believers still sees it as a first bite therefore accepts up after sunset. The Christmas holidays are starting December twenty-fifth, the date of the birth of Christ and continue the following day of St. Stephen. Christmas peak period and virtually ends on January 6 feast of the Epiphany, or Three Kings day.

hotels The Christmas holidays are hotels today nedomysliteln� include decorating the tree. This practice, however, in the Czech lands began to emerge only in the first half of the 19th century and is originally from Germany.

In pre-Christian times the Christmas period coincided with the celebration of the winter solstice, which falls on 21 or 22 December, when the northern hemisphere's longest night. After several days of apparent stagnation, the days begin to lengthen again. This period in ancient civilizations had great symbolic significance. For example, the ancient Greeks glorified December 25 as the birth of the sun god Helios.