St George in England and Spain April 23, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : UK , trackbackAfter blogging on St David’s day and St Piran’s day I thought I’d better mention that today is St George’s day. The English tend to be a bit shy about their national day, well many of them, but that’s being changed now by pub landlords looking for more reasons to sell beer. “Celebrate St George’s day here on 21st, 22nd and 23rd April” urged The Golden Fleece, who earlier initiated “Mother’s day Weekend”.
The Pride of Spitalfields was decked with red and white balloons, and playing Chas and Dave Cds, just like any other day, almost.
I should have been in Barcelona according to wickepedia:
St. George’s Day is celebrated in all the Spanish autonomous communities from the old Crown of Aragon: Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia, with different intensity. St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, where he is known as San Jorge.
In Catalonia , on “Sant Jordi’s Day”, people exchanges a rose and a book. This tradition, which combines a rose as a symbol of love and a book as a symbol of culture, has turned April 23rd into a festive celebration which fills the streets and squares with book and flower stalls. It is a day for walking around and enjoying the spectacle of streets turning into open-air book shops.
Catalonia has exported this tradition of the book and the rose to the rest of the world. In 1995, the UNESCO adopted April 23rd as World Book and Copyright Day.
Copyright day?
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
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