How the New Year is celebrated in different countries. New Year in Iceland How New Year is celebrated in Greenland

Despite its small population, Greenland is widely known for its colorful and varied festivities.

Christmas is one of the main holidays on the island. During this period, the whole "set" of events typical for this period takes place, colorful Christmas stars are hung in the windows of almost all houses, Christmas trees are put up (usually they are set up on the first Sunday of Advent), and cozy family or community holidays are held. On Christmas Eve (December 24), children go from house to house with religious songs, and this holiday is usually preceded by a festive children's procession in honor of St. Lucia (December 13-19), held throughout the country. According to Greenlandic tradition, Christmas stars and other decorations cannot be removed until January 6th, that is, Twelfth Night, so during the Christmas period, local settlements have a very picturesque view.

New Year in Greenland is celebrated in the same way as in most European countries, with numerous balls, receptions, receptions, fireworks. An interesting feature of the island is the arrival of the New Year twice - the first is the Danish New Year (at 20.00), and then the Greenlandic one, local time.

One of the most colorful and colorful events in the Greenlandic calendar is the celebration of the End of the Polar Night, which usually takes place in January - February. In March, Nuuk hosts the famous International Snow Sculpture Festival (www.snow.gl), parallel to which unique competitions are held: the Lake Ferguson Masters in Kangerdlugssuak (Westgrönland) and the World Ice Golf Championship in Umanak (Nordgrönland), which are a kind of Ice Golf World Championship. In early April, the most extreme three-day ski race in the world begins in Sisimiut (although there are many such in the local sports calendar). On Easter Eve, villages north of the Arctic Circle hold a dog sled race and an Arts Festival.

The national holiday of the island of Greenland - the Festival of the longest day of the year (June 21) - is considered one of the oldest on the planet (all the polar peoples of the Earth have similar holidays). All cities and settlements of the island literally explode on this day with numerous musical and ethnographic festivals, solemn ceremonies and banquets, obligatory church services, sports competitions (primarily competitions of sea kayakers and hunters), as well as indispensable "caffemilk" ceremonies (it should be noted that that the procedure for preparing and drinking Greenlandic coffee is a complex ritual that has long turned into a kind of small party). Museums and cultural centers celebrate the national holiday with special exhibitions, and the country's only nationwide television channel, KNR, describes in detail the course of the holiday in the most remote settlements.

Every three or four years, Greenland hosts the famous Conference of the Circumpolar Peoples - a week-long cultural forum of all the peoples living beyond the Arctic Circle. Another large festival - Asivik - is a kind of cultural and political forum, which is usually held in mid-July and is famous for its performances of traditional folk theaters, dancing to the tambourine and drums, as well as numerous concerts of folk music groups. The Qaqortoq Music Festival is held in late June/early July, with the Nuka Marathon starting right after.

EVERY COUNTRY IS DIFFERENT!

Even where there is no snow, it is easily created! Fortunately, in the world there are many different traditions regarding the same holidays. New Years is the best example of this. It is enough to come up with a New Year's party, say, in the Irish or Brazilian style, in order to be transported romantically to the other side of the world without leaving home. Although, of course, it’s much more interesting to plunge into the New Year’s reality of foreign countries by taking a plane ticket and going on a conceptual journey…

BRAZIL

As soon as the waves of the ocean are illuminated by the last rays of the setting sun, Brazilians and tourists from all over the world who have arrived in Rio begin to cheerfully see off the outgoing and celebrate the New Year. For nothing, unlike Russia, in Brazil at this time, summer is in full swing. The city is generously decorated with luminous artificial Christmas trees the day before. The holiday by the sea starts at 10 pm. Thousands of people dressed in white are enjoying life on Copacabana Beach in the light of a grand fireworks display, sparks from which fall into the ocean. And in the lagoon di Freitas, an 80-meter Christmas tree, installed right on the water, shines!

Closer to midnight, countless pops of opening champagne corks merge into an uninterrupted cannonade. The decisive seconds before the onset of the New Year, the Brazilians are counting down on the Atlantic coast, and immediately after that, a magnificent pyrotechnic show begins.

The Brazilian New Year's Carnival is an incredibly colorful mass celebration, with which people appease the spirits, following the traditions of Afro-Indian ancestors. Every year they prepare gifts for the African goddess Imanzha, the patroness of sailors. These gifts are candles, which are set on wooden stands, set on fire and launched into the water, making cherished wishes. If the candle does not go out for a long time, then, with a high probability, the desire will come true. And Brazilians also throw white flowers into the water and believe that if they are not thrown ashore by a powerful surf, the dream will certainly come true.

CUBA. NEW YEAR - DAY OF KINGS

Unlike Europe and the USA, New Year in Cuba is celebrated on a larger scale than Christmas. This is explained by the fact that it is on January 1 that Cubans celebrate the anniversary of the revolution of 1959, which was significant for them, after which the celebration of Christmas in the country was generally banned for “socialist reasons”. Only in 1998, thanks to the visit of Pope John Paul II, Cubans were again allowed to celebrate Christmas, but the primacy still remained with the Day of the Kings.

In Cuba, the New Year is known as the Day of the Kings. And all because instead of Santa Claus and Father Frost, the New Year's ball on Liberty Island is ruled by three kings and sorcerers - Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar, who, according to the biblical story, saw the Star of Bethlehem and, following it, came first to Jerusalem, and then to Bethlehem, where they bowed to Mary and the baby Jesus and brought them gifts.

According to tradition, before the New Year, Cubans fill all available containers with water, and when the clock strikes twelve, they pour it out through the open windows into the street. This means that the old new year has ended happily, and the new one should be as clean as water. And instead of a Christmas tree in Cuba, they dress up araucaria. This tree with flat needles can grow up to 90 m in height, but it can also be quite small, decorative, very suitable for a home environment.

The clock on a festive night in Cuba strikes only 11 times, and then rests. The twelfth blow falls exactly on the New Year. And there is also a custom to eat a grape with each stroke of the clock and make a wish! Thus, for each of the twelve months of the coming year, there will be one grape, and it makes sense to remember which berries turned out to be sweeter, which less, because sweet berries will have favorable months, sour ones - not so much. And it is also believed that if you walk around the house with a suitcase during the fight of the clock, then unusual adventures and travels will certainly await you.

AUSTRALIA

Australians make up for the lack of snow, reindeer and sleds in their own way. For example, Santa Claus can easily appear from the sea, on a bright surfboard.

Unlike us, Australians do not consider New Year's Eve a home holiday, preferring to cruise in a noisy crowd through numerous pubs and have fun in the open air on the embankments, squares and parks.

But numerous microstates around the Green Continent have very intricate New Year traditions. For example, the inhabitants of the Caroline Islands change their names every year. This happens as follows: waking up on the first day of the year, all family members, covering their mouths with their hands, pronounce their new names in each other's ears. And one of the relatives at the same time desperately beats the drum. This is how he saves information from evil spirits, who, according to local beliefs, are trying to eavesdrop on them.

And the people of Micronesia are making money! To do this, they go to the forests, find red feathers there and glue them together in the form of a circle. The circle in the end is huge and weighs about 10 kg. It turns out that these very circles serve as the local currency. They can be used to buy groceries in local stores and even redeem for a bride. True, if the bride was born beautiful, you will have to add an incredible amount of red feathers to get her.

ICELAND

In Iceland, the New Year begins to be celebrated as early as noon on December 31: bonfires are burned and circled around them with songs and dances. It is curious that the mission of Santa Claus, who gives gifts, is carried out by a whole company of trolls and elves from thirteen "Christmas boys" - Jolasveinn / Jolasveinn.

Starting on December 13, the Joulasweinns begin to appear alternately at night to get together by Christmas. Moreover, each troll has its own name and intricate character. So if there is a knock on the door in the house, behind which there is actually no one, mutton disappears or licked dishes are found, then the owners perfectly understand whose tricks they are.

Well, by December 13, children put a red boot on the windows so that each of the Christmas naughty people can put gifts there. The biggest present - just in time for Christmas - is brought by Joulasweinn Candlestick. Well, kids who play pranks run the risk of finding a potato in their boot instead of a gift!

DENMARK

There are two Santa Clauses in Denmark - Ülemanden and Ülenisse. Ulemanden is a big Santa Claus, and he has elf helpers. And Yulenisse is the younger Santa Claus, a little old man who lives in the forest and rides a cart pulled by foxes. Julenisse is dressed like a dwarf - in wooden shoes, knee-length pants, a blouse, a waistcoat, stockings and an invariable cap.

For a whole year, Julenisse makes Christmas gifts in her hut, and in December she moves to people and settles in a barn as a Brownie: she looks after the animals, helps the hostess with festive chores. Watching children.

In Denmark, on New Year's Eve, everyone puts on funny hats, and tables are decorated with balls and horns. The main dishes of the New Year's table are fish and potatoes. At midnight, the hostess serves a huge bowl of sweet rice porridge with a secret on the festive table. The fact is that a nut or almond is hidden at the bottom of the bowl with this porridge. It is believed that if an unmarried girl gets a nut, then the next year the wedding cannot be avoided.

It is customary for children in Denmark to give a wooden or plush Christmas tree with a troll peeking out from under the coniferous paws for the New Year. The Danes believe that the forest prankster is the embodiment of the soul of the tree.

By the way, Danish foresters have come up with a great way to save their forests from poachers who cut down Christmas trees before the New Year. On the eve of the holiday, they treat the trees with a special compound that does not smell of anything in the cold, but in a warm room it exudes an extremely unpleasant suffocating smell.

At six o'clock in the evening on December 31, the Queen appears on Danish television, addressing citizens with New Year's greetings. At midnight, Danish television shows the clock of the Copenhagen City Hall, the Danes drink champagne and treat themselves to kransekage - a pie in the form of a cone of several layers of different sizes. The Prime Minister's speech is traditionally broadcast on the evening of 1 January.

GREENLAND

The New Year traditions of Greenland are intriguing with their unusualness. They seem to be forged by harsh arctic conditions, but that's the beauty of it! 90% of the country is inhabited by Greenlandic Eskimos (kalaallits), the remaining 10% are predominantly Danes and other Europeans. You can imagine how curious the mixture of New Year's customs they created.

Greenlanders celebrate the New Year twice a night and congratulate each other twice “Happy New Year!” ("Kiortame pivdluaritlo!"). This is explained by the fact that the Danish New Year comes at 20.00, and the local, Greenlandic, as expected, at midnight.

Greenland Santa Claus - Grandfather Yuletomte. And it is he who gives gifts to children.

Undoubtedly, in Greenland there are the most unusual New Year's gifts in the world: figurines of polar bears, deer and walruses carved from ice, as well as sealskin mittens, walrus tusks, national clothes made of skins, decorated with amulets embroidery.

New Year's decorations in Greenland are also different: both familiar to Europeans and unique, purely local ones. Traditional Christmas stars are glued to windows, Christmas trees, candles. And besides this, the Greenlanders decorate their houses with amulets that give good luck - figures of walruses, seals and Inuit deities carved from bone, soapstone and wood.

But the New Year's table in Greenland is a completely different story. In addition to more or less understandable dishes: fish baked on coals, jerky, seafood and seabird eggs, the festive menu contains dishes that make Europeans uncomfortable. Let's put it this way: the Christmas table in Greenland is a mystical dream of a raw foodist.

Kiviak – rotten seal meat stuffed with seagulls. To prepare this dish, the head of a poor seal is cut off, and plucked gulls are stuffed into the stomach. After that, kiviak is immersed in permafrost for 7 months, and by the New Year they are removed and served at the table. This exotic culinary masterpiece tastes like a rather sharp old cheese.

Hakarl – rotten shark meat. For its preparation, the giant Greenland shark is also buried in permafrost for several months. Hakarl looks like cheese cut into cubes. True, it is better not to inhale the “aroma” of this dish, because even the stinkiest Swiss cheese smells like violets in comparison ...

Hakarl

Mattak is a thin layer of subcutaneous whale blubber.. It is served to the festive table raw, in small pieces.

Fresh liver of seals and gulls - Served as is, without seasoning or processing at all.

From drinks, Greenlanders prefer tea (aka soup), seasoned with salt, lard and spices, as well as coffee and deer milk.

NORWAY

The Norwegian New Year is celebrated under the auspices of the dwarf Julenissen and the legendary goat, for which dry oat ears are left in every family on a festive night. Julenissen gives children only small souvenirs, while adults give each other only matches - as a symbol of home comfort and warmth.

In Oslo, the holiday begins on the morning of December 31st. Norwegians spend the whole day before the New Year skating, skiing, sledding and snowboarding. They spend the whole day with their family, and in the late afternoon they meet with relatives and friends at family parties. Therefore, bars and nightclubs are not crowded on New Year's Eve. Those who like to rejoice in the crowd go to the City Hall and, exactly at midnight, open champagne there, congratulate each other and admire the colorful fireworks.

Of course, it is very interesting to spend the New Year in the Norwegian part of Lapland - in the homeland of Santa Claus - surrounded by fabulous elves and gnomes. There there is a Reindeer Breeding School, a Sami theater and the Nordic Institute, in addition, there are almost 100 thousand deer for 3 thousand local residents.

SWEDEN

In Sweden, on New Year's Eve, it is customary to break dishes at the neighbors' doors.

As you know, until the 15th century, the Swedes celebrated the New Year on the night of December 31 to January 1, and on March 25, in accordance with the agrarian cycle, since it was more convenient for the peasants who mainly inhabited the north of the country at that time.

In the Middle Ages in Sweden, the New Year was celebrated on both March 25 and January 1. Only during the reign of King Gustav Vasa (1523 - 1560) a single date was fixed - January 1.

In ancient times, the Swedes had a New Year's tradition of dropping molten lead into the water in order to predict the future by the shape of the resulting figures. It was believed that if the shape of the lead resembled a crown, the girl was expected to get married soon, if a coin, it was worth expecting a profitable year.

In our time, the Swedes often, instead of lead, drip melted wax from burning candles into the water, as before, guessing the future with the help of the resulting figures.

As for signs, the first guest in the house - a man - foreshadowed a good year, but if an elderly woman came first, the coming year did not bode well.

And in order to be healthy throughout the year, one should eat an apple on the first of January.

Unlike Christmas, it is customary in Sweden to celebrate the New Year with large groups of friends - going to concerts, restaurants, just walking around, grabbing champagne in unlimited quantities.

The most numerous festivities take place in Stockholm, in Skansen Park, from where since 1977 Swedish television has been broadcasting the New Year's Eve live. There is also a broadcast from the New Year's concert from the Vienna Philharmonic.

AUSTRIA

In Austria, it is considered an unwritten commandment to hear the solemn sound of the “Peace Bell” installed on St. Stephen's Cathedral on New Year's Eve in Vienna. Thousands of people gather on Cathedral Square on December 31st. In the old days, in this country, it was considered a good omen to meet a chimney sweep, touch him and get dirty. It was believed that it brings great happiness and good luck.

NETHERLANDS

On New Year's Eve, on the streets of Dutch cities, especially Amsterdam, decorated with lights, car sirens hum almost continuously and fireworks sparkle in the sky.

Back in November, a local Santa Claus named Sinterklaas sails from distant Spain to the Netherlands. It is difficult to say why exactly from Spain, but it has been considered so since ancient times. Moreover, he arrives on a personal, richly decorated ship with a large retinue, requires special respect for his person.

Arrival of Sinterklaas

At the pier, Sinterklaas is solemnly welcomed by the mayor of the city and a whole delegation of officials. And directly on national television, the mayor of Amsterdam hands Sinterklaas a symbolic key to the city, while endowing him with many powers. For a month and a half, this character arranges night walks and distributes sweet gifts in the form of large chocolate letters with their initials to obedient children.

And naughty children will meet with the Black Peters, who arrived in the retinue of Sinterklaas in medieval pirate costumes with whips, with faces smeared with black soot, chains, ropes and rods in their hands, who can jokingly punish mischievous people and threaten to take them with them to Spain. It is not surprising that children in these months become simply “silk”.

The holiday is usually celebrated at home with the family. A traditional New Year's sweet is "Christmas wreath" with almond filling. Quite often it is made in the form of animals - usually pigs or cows. A traditional drink for the New Year's table is "slem" - hot milk with the addition of sugar and spices.

A traditional New Year's gift in the Netherlands is a rare tulip bulb in a stylish mug and a homemade card decorated with ribbons, sparkles and shells. Children are given gifts in early December - starting from the day of St. Nicholas. From early morning, the kids are looking for them in the shoes prepared in the evening.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, the first day of the new year is taken very seriously. People try to behave correctly, not to borrow money and wear only new things. It is believed that a person himself determines his future for the whole next year. If the first day of the New Year is fun, then this will be the whole year.

And adults have their own New Year tradition. Women prepare a pie for men, in which a bean or a pea is placed. So, the one who gets a piece of pastry with a bean becomes the king for the whole New Year's Eve, and chooses a queen and retinue.

BELGIUM

Preparations for the New Year holidays in Belgium begin in November. At the same time, the first brightly decorated Christmas trees appear, and the very first Christmas markets open. A trip to the Brussels New Year's Bazaar is especially attractive for lovers of gastronomic tourism, because before Christmas an international culinary festival takes place in Brussels, where you can taste delicious dishes from around the world. In a word, the Christmas mood is felt everywhere, warming mulled wine flows like water.

Of course, Brussels remains the center of New Year's celebrations. Bright costumed processions and performances take place on the Grand-Place and spread throughout the city.

Belgian New Year traditions are very similar to Dutch ones. The Belgians also believe in the "magic of the first day", believing that a person's behavior on the first day of the New Year can be used to judge what awaits him in the coming 12 months.

Therefore, in Belgium it is customary not to occupy the first day of the New Year with anything, and besides, be sure to put on new things on this day.

In order to have prosperity in the house, the housewives set a New Year's table abounding in dishes with the indispensable presence of veal sausage, truffles, rice, boar meat and all kinds of sweets and wine. Moreover, in each region there is a special type of festive waffles and cookies.

New Year's drink, as well as in the Netherlands, is considered "slam" - a mixture of hot milk and tea, with the addition of sugar, cinnamon, lemon peel, saffron, cloves and nutmeg.

IRELAND

In Ireland, the festive New Year's Eve is usually spent at home - with family and friends. However, half an hour before the battle of the Chimes, the inhabitants of Dublin go to the central square and have fun from the heart. And just before the New Year, the doors of the houses open wide so that failures and evil spirits leave it. And anyone who wants can come to visit whoever he wants. The guest will be seated in a place of honor, treated to a glass of good wine and said: “For peace in this house and throughout the world!” Even casual passers-by on New Year's Eve in Ireland are treated to pastries.

On New Year's Eve, girls put different herbs under their pillow before going to bed - mistletoe, clover, ivy, and even lavender. According to legend, it is on New Year's Eve that you can see your future spouse.

There are always a lot of traditional Irish and European dishes at the New Year's Irish table. A mandatory New Year's treat is a seed cake - a cookie or a cupcake with cumin. In addition, during the New Year holidays, the housewives prepare three puddings: for Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Eve.

HUNGARY

According to the Catholic calendar, December 31st is St. Sylvester's day, which is why the New Year's holiday itself is often called Sylvester. So, on this day, or rather, New Year's Eve, the Hungarians make a lot of noise, have fun (mostly on the street), so shops and street tents work all night, and the most popular product is a variety of pipes and horns. Well, in addition to all this, hot pork sausages are sold everywhere.

Budapest is one of the most beautiful New Year's capitals in Europe. In the park near the Heroes' Square there is a huge Time Wheel hourglass, which, according to tradition, is turned over at 12 o'clock, and it starts the countdown of the new year - there is exactly 12 months of sand in it. Thousands of Hungarians and tourists come to watch this ceremony.

For those who celebrate the New Year at home, a traditional treat is served at the festive table - a roast pig, which, fortunately, needs to twist its tail. It is not supposed to treat a bird or fish on this night, because, according to popular belief, happiness can sail away or fly away.

Well, if there is no piglet, then it can be successfully replaced by a generous dish of sausages, which are sold in huge packages before the New Year in Hungary.

As for New Year's drinks, in addition to champagne, wines, cocktails, and aperitifs, the Hungarians have the so-called "kramampouli", the preparation of which is considered a special ritual. This is an explosive mixture of wine, rum, sugar, strong brewed tea, dried fruits, candied fruits, lemon and orange peel, as well as a handful of almonds and walnuts, with the addition of cinnamon and cloves ...

BULGARIA

In Bulgaria, on New Year's Eve, they acquire an indispensable attribute of the holiday - dogwood sticks. On the first of January, children congratulate relatives and friends by lightly hitting with these sticks. With the last stroke of the clock of the outgoing year, the lights go out in all houses for 3 minutes: these are the minutes of New Year's kisses that replace toasts.

Bulgarians rejoice if someone sneezes at the New Year's table. They say it brings good luck.

JAPAN

In Japan, New Year is celebrated on January 1st. The Japanese are afraid of evil spirits that can enter the house along with happiness and wealth. Therefore, in order to keep themselves out of trouble, the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun hang bundles of straw in front of the entrance to houses and apartments. And as soon as the New Year comes, the Japanese laugh happily.

VIETNAM

On New Year's Eve in Vietnam, it is customary to release live carp into rivers and ponds. According to legend, a god swims on the back of a carp, who goes to heaven on New Year's Eve to tell there how people live on Earth.

BURMA

In Burma, the New Year is celebrated with a water festival. Thus, people cheerfully escape from the heat. When meeting, the Burmese pour water on each other from different dishes, thus wishing each other happiness in the New Year.

GREECE

In Greece, there is a custom according to which, exactly at midnight, the head of the family goes out into the courtyard and smashes a pomegranate fruit against the wall. If its grains scatter around the yard, the family will live happily in the new year.

Going to visit, the Greeks bring a mossy stone with them as a gift, and leave it in the hosts' room. They say: "Let the money of the owners be as heavy as this stone."

PORTUGAL

In Portugal, on the eve of Christmas, it is customary to give a "Christmas cake" with almonds and candied fruit. By the way, surprises are also baked into such a muffin - a figurine or a medal. The one who finds it will be lucky all year long, and prosperity will come in his house.

SPAIN

In Spain, before the New Year, boys and girls draw lots: the names of the brides and grooms are written on scraps of paper. Thus, young people "pull out" their betrothed. Sometimes the procedure takes place near churches, and the established couples must portray lovers until the end of the festivities.

Sources of information: 4tololo.ru, www.eva-hiorst.ru, turizm.ru,www.zlatoshveika.com, www.best-country.org, womanadvice.ru, swedenlife.ru.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN:,

WHERE TO GO FOR CHRISTMAS?

Greenland is the largest island in the world, we know about it from school years. A country of high mountains, huge icebergs, fjords and bare rocks. From the window of the plane, a view of the endless desert opens, in places jagged mountain peaks are visible in the endless snow. But luckily the snow...

New Year in Greenland

Greenland is the largest island in the world, we know about it from school years. A country of high mountains, huge icebergs, fjords and bare rocks. From the window of the plane, a view of the endless desert opens, in places jagged mountain peaks are visible in the endless snow. But snow, fortunately, is not the only attraction in Greenland.

Nature brings unexpected gifts here - unexpectedly green meadows and delicate flowers breaking through the edge of the glacier. The center of Greenland is buried under an ice cap in winter and summer. It was here that the huge iceberg that ruined the Titanic was born.

The eastern coast of the island is cut off from the world by pack ice; people hardly live here. This deserted area has become a real reserve for rare species of birds, animals and arctic plants. The West Bank is famous for its largest fjords. This part is inhabited, the capital Nuk is also located here with 15 thousand metropolitan residents. A very large part of Greenland lies north of the Arctic Circle, and there is no sun during the long winter months. In the summer, Greenland becomes an ideal haven for a huge number of birds.

Why go to Greenland?

To see what you have never seen before. You won’t surprise Russians with snow, but in Greenland the landscapes are completely surreal and pristine. Where else can you see a football match against the backdrop of icebergs? Pretty multi-colored houses that look like flowers in the snow, whales raising fountains of spray among the fjords and the majestic northern lights are all worth seeing.

The cuisine in Greenland has not changed much since people learned how to make fire. The locals prefer food that is not thermally processed. Raw whale or walrus meat with fat, offered to the table, makes an indelible impression on everyone. You probably won't eat it, but be aware that the locals almost never catch a cold, which means they have remarkable health.

Fishing in Greenland thrives in a completely natural way. Here you can taste delicacies that are not found anywhere else in the world. The most popular drink among the Greenlanders is tea with deer milk. Where else will you try it? Another national drink is kaffemic. It consists of coffee, three types of alcohol, whipped cream and sugar.

One of the main holidays in Greenland is Christmas. Beautiful Christmas stars are hung in all windows, Christmas trees are set up everywhere. Celebrate Christmas with families and communities. According to an established tradition, the stars and other Christmas decorations are not removed until January 6, when the 12th night of Christmas comes, so the settlements during this period are very picturesque.

In Greenland, as in other European countries, they celebrate with fireworks, numerous balls, buffets and receptions. It is interesting that the New Year is celebrated twice on the island - at 20.00 they celebrate the Danish New Year, and later - Greenland, local time. The traditional dish on the New Year's table is, of course, venison. If you want to visit a real New Year's fairy tale, with stars, sparkling snowdrifts, snow creaking merrily under your feet, go to Greenland.

Consent to the processing of personal data

I hereby, being the Customer of the tourist services included in the tourist product and an authorized representative of the persons (tourists) specified in the Application, give my consent to the Agent and his authorized representatives to process my data and the data of the persons (tourists) contained in the Application: surname, name, patronymic, date and place of birth, gender, citizenship, series, passport number, other passport data indicated in the passport; address of residence and registration; home and mobile phone; E-mail address; as well as any other data relating to my personality and the identity of the persons specified in the Application, to the extent necessary for the implementation and provision of tourist services, including those that are part of the tourist product formed by the Tour Operator, for any action (operation) or set of actions ( operations) performed with my personal data and data of persons specified in the Application, including (without limitation) collection, recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, changing), extraction, use, transfer (distribution, provision, access), depersonalization, blocking, deletion, destruction of personal data, as well as the implementation of any other actions provided for by the current legislation of the Russian Federation, using automation tools, including in information and telecommunication networks, or without using such tools, if the processing of personal data without using such funds corresponds to the nature of the actions (about transactions) performed with personal data using automation tools, that is, it allows, in accordance with a given algorithm, to search for personal data recorded on a tangible medium and contained in file cabinets or other systematized collections of personal data, and / or access to such personal data, and also for the transfer (including cross-border) of these personal data to the Tour Operator and third parties - partners of the Agent and the Tour Operator.

The processing of personal data is carried out by the Agent and his authorized representatives (Tour operator and direct service providers) in order to fulfill this agreement (including, depending on the terms of the agreement, for the purpose of issuing travel documents, booking rooms in accommodation facilities and with carriers, transferring data to consulate of a foreign state, resolving claim issues when they arise, providing information to authorized state bodies (including at the request of courts and internal affairs bodies)).

I hereby confirm that the personal data transferred by me to the Agent are reliable and can be processed by the Agent and his authorized representatives.

I hereby give my consent to the Agent and the Tour Operator to send me e-mails/information messages to the e-mail address and/or mobile phone number provided by me.

I hereby confirm that I have the authority to provide personal data of the persons specified in the Application, and I undertake to reimburse the Agent for any costs associated with my lack of appropriate authority, including losses associated with the sanctions of the inspection authorities.

I agree (to) that the text given by me of my own free will, in my interests and in the interests of the persons specified in the Application, consent to the processing of personal data is stored electronically in a database and / or on paper and confirms the fact of consent to the processing and transfer of personal data in accordance with the above provisions and take responsibility for the accuracy of the provision of personal data.

This consent is given for an indefinite period and can be revoked at any time by me, and in terms of a particular person, the subject of personal data specified in the Application, by the specified person, by sending a written notification to the Agent by mail.

I hereby confirm that my rights, as a subject of personal data, have been explained to me by the Agent and are clear to me.

I hereby confirm that the consequences of withdrawing this consent have been explained to me by the Agent and are clear to me.

This Consent is an annex to this Application.