Columbia, not to be confused with the South American nation of Colombia, celebrates New Year on January 1, in accordance to the Georgian calendar.

Celebrations on New Year’s Eve in Columbia

During the time of the New Year, and in particularly on New Year’s Eve, the whole of Columbia can be sensed to be in a mood of high spirits. Most of the people celebrate the time in the typical New Year Eve parties organized all over Columbia, in all small and big party places, night clubs, pubs, and discotheques. Usually, most of them are alcohol free, and thus, one can find many people coming in along with their entire families, including small kids and wives. There is a special New Year’s Eve party organized specially for teenage people.

Other than these party places, Columbia also offers adequate entertainment options to art devotees and culture followers as well, by hosting number of cultural programs and art display shows in most of the major cities of Columbia. There are many theatre shows, live music shows, dance performances, and other performances of various genre performed by local as well as eminent artists from the nation and world on New Year’s Eve in Columbia. Other than that, children can have some great New Year celebrations in the children’s processions, face painting competitions, fates and fairs, and number of adventure rides.

In Columbia, New Year is considered as a time, when one should prefer to spend as much time as possible with family, friends, and community, in the mentioned order of preference. As far as celebrations along with family and friends are concerned, people organize feast for them on New Year’s Eve in their houses, or farmhouses or personal party places. These are more of private affairs. On the occasion, the special feast as organized boasts of some very special traditional dishes for all the guests of the evening, with a fine champagne or wine must necessarily be on the offer.

One of the highlight aspects of New Year’s Eve in Columbia is the evening procession, which march through the streets to conclude at Courthouse Square, which hosts some of the most spectacular and splendid New Year’s Eve celebrations in Columbia. The fireworks show planned for the midnight of New Year, is considered to be the best in town. Apart from cheering for the moment, and dancing to the traditional and modern tunes of music, people do make sure to be a part of the traditions of resolution sculpture and burden burning barrels on New Year’s Eve.

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