New Year's Eve in Puerto Rico

The festival of New Year is celebrated worldwide with great excitement and enthusiasm. Puerto Rico is a Caribbean Island and it is a self-governing commonwealth of the United States of America. New Year's Eve in Puerto Rico is a time for celebration with friends, family members and relatives. The most important custom that is associated with New Year, before the New Years Eve celebrations begin is the cleaning of the inside as well as the exterior of the house as the citizens of Puerto Rico belief, that the condition in which they would welcome the New Year, that is the condition that would prevail with them in the coming year.

The citizens of Puerto Rico decorate their homes for the eve of New Year with various kinds of lights, balloons, streamers, silver and golden accents, different kinds of ribbons and other various decorative items that differ from each other in their structure, form as well as color. The display of fireworks is an integral part of the celebrations on New Year's Eve in Puerto Rico.

The most important tradition that is associated with the festivity of New Year's Eve in Puerto Rico, is the starting of the eating of twelve grapes by the inhabitants of Puerto Rico, when there are only twelve seconds left for the arrival of the New Year as it is believed by the citizens of the Puerto Rico, that those people who would be able to finish those twelve grapes by midnight, good luck would stay with them for the rest of the year.

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