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What is Dia de los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings Day, all about?
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What is Dia de los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings Day, all about?
Well we can all relax now that the holidays are over, put away the wrapping paper, store the decorations. Wait, no, what about "El Dia de los Reyes?" It's also known as 12th night, the feast of the magi and it's celebrated all over the world. Even here in the US. But what is it?
Children are dressed as kings in the Three Kings Day Parade in East Harlem on January 6, 2012 in New York City. The parade celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, marking the Biblical story of the visit of three kings to Bethlehem to visit the baby Jesus, revealing his divinity.
Children are dressed as kings in the Three Kings Day Parade in East Harlem on January 6, 2012 in New York City. The parade celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, also known as Three Kings Day, marking the Biblical story of the visit of three kings to Bethlehem to visit the baby Jesus, revealing his divinity.
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Well we can all relax now that the holidays are over, put away the wrapping paper, store the decorations. Wait, no, what about "El Dia de los Reyes?" It's also known as 12th night, the feast of the magi and it's celebrated all over the world. Even here in the US. But what is it?

Finally, the holidays are over, you can put away the wrapping paper, store the decorations, and relax. 

Well, not quite. Sunday is Dia de los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings' Day, an important holiday in Latin America and much of Europe and Russia.

Here to tell us about it is Stuart Ashman, who runs the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.