Xmas in Spain - Holy Innocents Celebration

This is one of the most popular and entertaining Christmas traditions in Spain. December 28 is the day when everyone is allowed to play practical jokes and when it is customary to buy joke articles in Christmas markets.  It is a feast similar to our April Fool’s.

Its name comes from a religious holiday in honor of the young children who were slaughtered by the order of King Herod.

Nowadays the religious aspect has been forgotten and it's a day to play practical jokes. Even TV shows and newspapers are all about this topic. One of the most widespread jokes on this day is to stick a figure cut out of white paper on someone's back (without them realising). The word in Spanish for this practical joke is an "inocentada.

Frida Kahlo Expo

My question is why if it's a holiday in Spain, the Mexican Consulate is closed? It's not a holiday in Mexico. And furthermore, why is their expo place closed?  These were the questions I asked myself when I tried to see the Frida Kahlo expo at the Mexican Consulate in Madrid. Why advertise if you are going to be closed to the public?

As a Mexican-American living in Spain, I was really surprised to find that this expo was closed. We found other Americans perplexed and complaining that they had come all the way to Madrid for this expo and now they didn't know what to do or where to go.

Of course living here for so long, I had a second plan, but I felt sorry for them.