November 1 marks the most important Public Holiday (Red Day) as we celebrate All Saints Day, a celebration to honor those who have died. All the local town halls, (Ayuntamientos) carry out improvements and maintenance of the local cemeteries for the families that all come back to their local villages to visit the graves of their loved ones and lay flowers.
Cemeteries in Spain are places of beauty and tranquility, they are very well kept and maintained, and often families will visit them weekly or daily to lay flowers or to just sit and remember.
After the visit to the cemeteries, often family groups will sit and eat and drink to celebrate and remember their loved ones.
In many Spanish regions, there are other things they do to celebrate All Saints day, in Catalonia, they have a festival where they roast chestnuts and eat snails in a sauce with a dough from corn flour called "motokil", whilst in the Canary Islands, they tell stories of the dead whilst eating pine nuts, chestnuts, and sweet wine or rum.
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