3. NEW YEAR EVE On the New Year Eve there is a great festival with fireworks and rockets. In Catalonia the people praise the new year meeting friends or family usually in their own homes or restaurants or in the centre of the city. Here, everybody eats twelve grapes, one for each stroke of the clock and when everyone ends the grapes, the people open their drinks and start a great party and a new year. Some people eat olives or mandarin grains instead of grapes. Also is typical of Catalonia that the girls wear a red piece of underwear.