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Merry Christmas in La Vanguardia Readers' Photos, with Santa Claus saying goodbye until next year while contemplating the sunrise on Gavà beach, in Baix Llobregat.
This past night, this popular Christmas character has distributed many gifts to girls and boys, but also to all older people, making his magic and Christmas spirit unforgettable.
This is how, after a night of hard work, Santa Claus watched the sunrise on Christmas Day from Gavà beach before returning home.
As can be seen in the image, he is even about to touch the sun with his nose, a result of the optical effect and perspective of the photograph.
As a curiosity, the military organization for air control of the United States and Canada, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), has once again followed, as it did every Christmas Eve 68 years ago, in the footsteps of Santa Claus, who first visits New Zeeland and Australia, where it gets dark earlier, and then continues through Asia, Africa and Europe to end in America.
So that the little ones in the house could follow Santa Claus in real time, Norad enabled the website www.noradsanta.org for another year with a map where they could see him jump from continent to continent.
The page, available in nine languages - English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean - also indicated how many minutes were left until their next stop and contains a counter for gifts distributed. At the time of publishing this article there were a total of 7,883,693,263.
