Families throughout the world brought the Christmas season to a close on Saturday, Jan. 6, with celebrations known variously as Three Kings Day (Dia de Los Reyes), Little Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany.
In Oakland, at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park’s annual fiesta, the festivities included live music, traditional holiday cake Rosca de Reyes (Three Kings Bread) and Mexican hot chocolate. Children made and decorated crowns and were also treated to a free toy.
In San Jose, the Children’s Discovery Museum held its 25th annual event. Activities for children included making and decorating crowns. A trio took on the role of the three kings, visiting guests and handing out gifts of chocolate coins.
In Venezuela, there were traditional go-kart races known as carruchas. In the Bronx, children lined up for gifts of toys and clothing. In Lithuania, people paraded through the streets. And in Hartford, Connecticut, the procession included celebrants dressed as the Three Wise Men riding camels.
Here’s a pictorial display of the local and global celebrations.
Chad Brown, Monica Medina and Fernando Lopez play the role of the three kings during the El Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos celebration, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, at the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Maddison Barajas, 4, of Oakland, uses star stickers to decorate a crown during a Three Kings Day Fiesta held at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Emma Interi, 12, left, smiles as Mariam Abuhamdiya, 7, both from Oakland, opens a gift during a Three Kings Day Fiesta held at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Volunteers help children decorate paper crowns during a Three Kings Day Fiesta held at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Nirvana Mazilli, 1, colors in a drawing of the three kings, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, during the El Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos celebration, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, at the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. This is the 25th year the museum has hosted the event honoring the Epiphany. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Men dressed as the Three Kings arrive on a homemade wooden cart, during the traditional street go kart race known as “carruchas,” as part of the Epiphany celebrations, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
The Three Kings, from left, Geraldo Rivera, Geraldo Polanco, and State Rep. Geraldo Reyes, D-Waterbury, begin their journey on Park Street in a procession to Pope Park, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. The event commemorates the Feast of the Epiphany and the Biblical story of the visitation of the three Magi bearing gifts for the newborn baby Jesus in Bethlehem. It was organized by Catholic Charities and SAMA – Spanish American Merchants Association. (Jessica Hill/Special to the Courant)
Geraldo Polanco, one of the Three Kings waves from his camel during a procession on Park Street, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. The event commemorates the Feast of the Epiphany and the Biblical story of the visitation of the three Magi bearing gifts for the newborn baby Jesus in Bethlehem. It was organized by Catholic Charities and SAMA – Spanish American Merchants Association. (Jessica Hill/Special to the Courant)
People parade through the streets as part of celebrations of Three Kings Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Epiphany, the 12th night of Christmas, marks the day the three wise men visited Jesus. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Lithuanian Orthodox Church worshippers light candles before the liturgy on Orthodox Christmas Eve in the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Lithuanians dressed as the Three Kings parade during the Epiphany Day celebrations in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Epiphany, the 12th night of Christmas, marks the day the three wise men visited Jesus. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
People attend a Three Kings Day celebration at Calvary United Methodist Church on Jan. 06, 2024 in the Morris Heights neighborhood of Bronx borough in New York City. The celebration offered families hot meals, winter clothes, toys, and other donated items. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Volunteers help to give away presents to children during a Three Kings Day celebration at Calvary United Methodist Church on Jan. 06, 2024 in the Morris Heights neighborhood of Bronx borough in New York City. The celebration offered families hot meals, winter clothes, toys, and other donated items. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
