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Christmas arrives in Barcelona, and with the usual festive figurines comes a strange Catalan
tradition, that of the Caganer or "Pooper".
Traditionally, a Caganer shows a peasant wearing a red beret and white blouse, bending over
and going to the toilet. But in recent years, an array of popular characters and celebrities
have also been captured with their pants down with nobody being spared.
I think it's incredible. It's funny. I've never heard of it, and I think we should really
start bringing it to America because it's a great tradition.
The figurines are often places under bridges behind haystacks or in the nativity scene
- the choice of Barcelona's mid-fielder Fabregas.
My Caganer has been in our nativity for three years now. My grandmother found it somewhere
and bought it, so it's a very beautiful tradition, and we have to keep it.
Yes, because nothing beats a figurine of yourself squatting behind a manger.