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<div style="float:right;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:Puerta_de_Alcalá,_Madrid,_España,_2017-05-18,_DD_14.jpg|230px]]</div>The '''Puerta de la Compañía''' ({{wp|English language|English}}: ''Gate of the Company'') is a {{wp|Neoclassical architecture|Neo-classical}} monument and gate in the city of [[Monsa]]. Built between 1596 and 1604 in honour of the [[South Seas Company]] by the Prince [[Carlos IV of Monsa]], it has transformed into an icon of the city.  
<div style="float:right;margin:1em;">[[File:Châteauneuf-sur-Cher-Basilique-NDDE-Crèche-Noël-01.jpg|200px]]</div>'''Christmas in Great Nortend''' is a widely celebrated holiday, as in most {{wp|Christian}} countries. As one of the [[Nortish Rite#Calendar|great high festivals]] observed by the [[Church of Nortend]], it commands a place in the religious life of the nation second only to Easter. As such, Christmas is normally celebrated focussing on religious tradition, commemorating the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, although more secular customs have always been a staple of the season since its inception in Great Nortend with the arrival and spread of Christianity in the 8th century.  


The gate is the result of a series of similar structures that were built at different periods. Until 1594, the gate was called Puerta de Zabala and it was going to be with the gate built in 1604 when its name changed and had a similar appearence to today's gate. It was commissioned to be emerged years after the creation of the South Seas Company by the Prince Carlos IV of the principality and the architect in charge of the work was [[Gerardo del Henar]], whose others works in the city contemplated the General Archives and several squares during a period of important changes in the urban design of Monsa. The gate substituted a previous one that existed in the same place as part of the walls that surrounded Monsa and whose gates marked the entrance to the city from the south. Although when it was completed the gate remained one of the entrances to the city, the work was one of the initial phases of the first enlargement of the grid of Monsa, which continued during the next century with the construction of several palaces in the neighbourhood of [[Conquistadores]]. However, the gate resulted severely damaged during conflicts and the Exponential invasion of the principality. Because of to this, it was going to be in 1681 when the Prince [[Fernando III]] commissioned the reconstruction of the gate on its actual form to the architect [[José de Alcobenda Bueno]].
Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but is followed by various festivals until Epiphany on January 6th, making the „Twelve Days of Christmas”. Christmas is preceded by the six weeks of Advent which is characterised by penance and fasting. Hence, when the Christmas season, called Christmastide, arrives, it is all the more spectacularly marked by festivities, feasting, shopping and general merriments. Christmas is also the beginning of the Christmas term, one of the four quarterly terms of the [[Civil year of Great Nortend|civil year]] which begins on Michaelmas, September 29th, in the Michaelmas term. ('''[[Christmas in Great Nortend|See more...]]''')
 
The structure was conceived following a {{wp|Neoclassical architecture|Neo-classical}} architectural style and emulating similar {{wp|triumphal arch}}es in other Astyrian capitals. With the tearing down of the walls surrounding Monsa, the area surrounding the gate was named ''Plaza de la Compañía'' (Square of the Company), with the gate forming one of the principal axes of the city and being transformed into part of a roundabout, which connects the Conquistadores Boulevard with the Avenida del Sitio and the Francisco Ruiz de Áravo St.
 
With the consolidation of the enlarged city, during the start of the 19th century, the gate started getting an important status among the Monsan population and tourists that arrived to the city. It was going to be in 1964, when it was named a [[Council of Government|Construcción de Interés Cultural]] by the [[Council of Government]]. ('''[[Puerta de la Compañía|See more...]]''')
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Christmas in Great Nortend is a widely celebrated holiday, as in most Christian countries. As one of the great high festivals observed by the Church of Nortend, it commands a place in the religious life of the nation second only to Easter. As such, Christmas is normally celebrated focussing on religious tradition, commemorating the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, although more secular customs have always been a staple of the season since its inception in Great Nortend with the arrival and spread of Christianity in the 8th century.

Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but is followed by various festivals until Epiphany on January 6th, making the „Twelve Days of Christmas”. Christmas is preceded by the six weeks of Advent which is characterised by penance and fasting. Hence, when the Christmas season, called Christmastide, arrives, it is all the more spectacularly marked by festivities, feasting, shopping and general merriments. Christmas is also the beginning of the Christmas term, one of the four quarterly terms of the civil year which begins on Michaelmas, September 29th, in the Michaelmas term. (See more...)

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