Christmas

Christmas, also known as Gabonak in Basque, is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Feast of Santo Tomas
The season starts with the feast of Santo Tomas. It is a celebration in which most people go out onto the streets to dance and eat talo with txistorra.

Christmas Day
On Christmas Day all the children in the Basque Country go to sleep early and they leave their shoes in the middle of whatever room in the house that isn't the bathroom or their bedroom. Olentzero leaves all the presents beside the shoes.

Epiphany
Just like on Christmas Day, children leave their shoes in the middle of the room so that Olentzero can put presents beside them.