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• Here in Bescanó, in Christmas we do the quina and the nativity alive.

• That organizes and participates the village people.

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• The quina is a typical Christmas game.• Is a game typical of Catalan region

and Valencia. It is also popular in France.• The mechanical is similar to bingo, as

each player has a card with  numbers from 1 to 90, with a different distribution of numbers to each, and consists of mark the numbers that the parrot sing.

The numbers are arranged in rows of five, which in turn are three rows of six squares.

The first player to make a fifth row of numbers win a little price, the game continues, until one player full the carton, then the person shout “QUINAAAAA”, the parrot goes there and checks if its truth, the winner win's the big price.

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Nativity alive or Nativity alive or nativity scene nativity scene

• A nativity scene is a representation of the birth of Jesus by people living and building a rural environment or landscape or architectural interest.

• The representations are usually performed during the months of December and January, coinciding with the Christmas holidays.

• They do two or three performances in three days during the evening.

The people are involved (children, mothers, fathers, grandparents...) and each one represents a character like shepherds, soldiers, St. Joseph, the Three Kings, "el caganer" ...

People who organized leaves costumes and implemented the sets.Between the sets, there are real animals (dogs, horses, young cows, sheep, donkeys ...)