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Grandparents Day in Spain

Name: Grandparents Day in Spain
Start: 2025-07-26T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-07-26
Location: Spain

Grandparents Day in Spain is held on July 26. Or Día de los abuelos y las abuelas. Date reflects the feast date of the Saints Anne and Joachim the grandparents of Jesus Christ. This event in the third decade of the month July is annual.

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Grandparents' Day is a commemorative day dedicated to the elderly in the family, which complements Mother's Day and Father's Day, in which one of the most important, endearing and influential figures in the family nucleus is honored. This day is celebrated only in some countries, with differences in the denomination, motivation and date. In some Christian countries, July 26 has been chosen as the day on which the Catholic liturgy commemorates St. Joachim and St. Anne, parents of the Virgin Mary and, therefore, grandparents of Jesus.

Spain, for its part, celebrates Grandparents' Day every July 26, a date also shared by countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Cuba.

They advise and guide their grandchildren to make the right decisions, they love unconditionally and they are a well of wisdom and knowledge from whom we have many things to learn. For all these reasons, it was necessary for them to have a day marked on the calendar.