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April twenty-third is a
symbolic day in world literature.
It is the
International Day of the Book
This celebration came from a catalan tradition, The Festival of
the Rose.
Legend says that Saint George, Patron Saint of Catalonia, killed a dragon about to devour
a beautiful catalan princess
From the dragon's blood
grew a rosebush
The hero plucked the prettiest rose for the princess
Since the Middle Ages the traditional Rose Festival is celebrated in
Barcelona to honor love.
In 1923, this lover's “fiesta” became even more poetic to mark the nearly
simultaneous deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the two giants of literary history, on
April 23, 1616.
On this day streets are full of books.
Remember:
The best vehicle to travel wherever you want is a book
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