Nochevieja means New Year's Eve in Spanish, and it's a pretty big deal, with lots of parties and every one staying out until 2 the next afternoon. Unfortunately for USal students, most of them are home, or at least not in Salamanca, for New Year's Eve, so the students organized their own New Year's Eve party, on the 12th of January, which conveniently happens to be the day before they put up the giant Christmas tree in the Plaza Mayor. Mostly, Nochevieja is a huge party, about 50,000 people big, but it has all of the trappings of traditional Spanish New Year's, including the twelve grapes (which are replaced by gummies) that you are supposed to eat at every chime of the cathedral bell at midnight. Other slight modifications in the university version of New Year's Eve, included a live band and the president of the university counting down to midnight and lots of advertising, including the orange wigs that are in all of the pictures.
The people that I celebrated Nochevieja with before the Plaza Mayor was completely overflowing with people.
More advertising, plus a nice "Happy Holidays" message.
The Plaza Mayor filled past capacity. Plus the really horrible Christmas lights that they hung all around the Plaza Mayor, and, since we're in Spain, of course they flashed.
Midnight!
Happy New Year's (2 weeks early)!We did not stay out all night (we didn't even make it to 1) because we all had finals the next day for our IES classes, but it was still really fun, despite the noise and crowd.
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