Three Kings Day

Three Kings Day

• Culture El Triunfo Festival Food La Paz Los Cabos Magic Towns Traditions
• 4 January, 2023

Just after the New Year celebration, Three Kings Day approaches, a family tradition that Mexico adopted from Spain with great affection, so that year after year this month smells like the famous rosca de reyes: a sweet dessert with an exquisite smell , highly representative of this season, which is not only a peculiar-looking bread, but each of its elements has a reason for being, even its circular or oval shape carries great meaning, because every January 6 the arrival of the Three Kings is expected, commemorating the moment where the child God or Jesus was born and they welcomed him with gold, incense and myrrh, in addition to that the three kings, Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar, had to perform a long trip to deliver these gifts, personally, representing with gold, value and purity, with incense, an offering of honor worthy of the gods and with myrrh a kind of prediction that at some point he was going to die like any other. or human being although after 3 days he would resurrect.

Now, in honor of what happened, the rosca de reyes was created, a spongy bread that due to its shape can represent a cycle, but in addition to that, it has delicious caramelized fruits on top since it seeks to represent a crown and its jewels , in addition to the fact that inside and as a surprise or a type of random game, representative figures of the child God are placed, some threads only have 3, others have 7, both numbers associated with the spiritual, the point of this tradition is that each member of the family take a piece of bagel and the one who gets “monkey” that is, the figure of the child God, will be in charge of bringing the tamales for the day of the candelaria that is celebrated on February 2. This tradition today has modified the bagel somewhat without neglecting its classic shape, but now we can find inside, in addition to the little monkeys, some delicious filling, such as caramel, hazelnut cream, among others, in the same way the fruit it has been changed for other elements, forming delicious and fun desserts, so go ahead and travel at this time of year, allow yourself to enjoy a classic or a modern bagel and have a great time, the Seven Crown Hotel wishes you happy holidays.