Halloween and All Saints Day has gone, now comes the end of autumn and Galicia celebrates the chestnut fiesta of Magosto. This is a traditional festival celebrated in November, whereby the main ingredients are chestnuts and wine.
People get together in the village square or streets to roast chestnuts on the open fires and drink young red wine, everyone will drink, sing, dance and tell stories around the fires. At the end of the night people will blacken their faces with the remaining ash and jump over the remaining fire, this will bring luck.
The origins of this tradition are remote, but everyone agrees it's a celebration of the year's harvest and an opportunity to eat the plentiful chestnuts provided by Galicia's forests.
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