{"id":3091,"date":"2018-10-24T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/la-castanyada\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:18:36","slug":"la-castanyada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/la-castanyada\/","title":{"rendered":"La Castanyada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of November &#8211; the All Saints\u2019 Day &#8211; in Catalonia we celebrate\u00a0<strong>La Castanyada<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This tradition consists in eating roasted chestnuts,\u00a0roasted sweet potatoes and &#8216;panellets&#8217;, a typical catalan sweet consisting in little balls made of marzipan and pine nuts, usually combined with muscatel, a sweet wine.<\/p>\n<p>The roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes are sold all around in street corner stalls from the beginning of October.\u00a0The point is to eat something warm as the weather turns colder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Panallets-e1508754253623-300x200.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t miss them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>History:<\/p>\n<p>The origins of the Casta\u00f1ada tradition date back to the end of the XVIII century when the bell-ringers, since they had to ring all the bells during All Saints\u2019 Eve, used to feed themselves with chestnuts, sweet potatoes and panellets in order to maintain strength and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1st of November &#8211; the All Saints\u2019 Day &#8211; in Catalonia we celebrate\u00a0La Castanyada.\u00a0 This tradition consists in eating roasted chestnuts,\u00a0roasted sweet potatoes and &#8216;panellets&#8217;, a typical catalan sweet consisting in little balls made of marzipan and pine nuts, usually combined with muscatel, a sweet wine. The roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lafransatravellers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}