when in 1966, President Johnson signed a proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as the day of the father in all the United States, the celebration quickly spread to Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa where is held the third Sunday of June as it marks the initial tradition.
However, there are countries that celebrate it on another date and add other curiosidad:
in Germany, there are two celebrations associated with father’s day. On the one hand learning is celebrated on 21 may, day of the Ascension of Jesus and is a national holiday. On the other hand, Herrentag is a traditional celebration consisting of boys make a trip only going up a mountain with carts with wine or beer and regional food.
In Spain, Portugal, Bolivia and Honduras we celebrate the 19 March , in the way that we all know. We met in family and give a gift as he did in his day Sonora.
Our Italian counterparts maintain the same day but used food to give a tribute . In some villages of Sicily are often make large feasts of food in the main square, and the poor are invited to share the table with her children. But not only in Sicily is celebrated with food that all Italy prepares a famous sweet: the “Zeppole di San Giuseppe”, a delicious sweet fried bread rings coated with a rain of nevada sugar and stuffed with cream custard and fruits in syrup.
On the other hand, in Brazil is celebrated every second Sunday of August and in the Dominican Republic, the last Sunday of July.
As we have seen, in its early father’s day had a purely familiar character and anything commercial, but with the passing of the years, stores began to take advantage of this holiday.
