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It represents the difficulties that Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin faced in finding room when travelling to Bethlehem. In it, groups of children go from house to house singing a traditional song requesting lodging (posada). In each house, the owner responds with refusal (also in song), until they reach the designated site for the party, where the owner recognizes Mary and Joseph and allows them to come in.

It is especially celebrated in Mexico.

Posadas City lays in northeastern Argentina, it is the capital of the Misiones Province. Its population is approximately 296,500 ( as of 2003).

Posadas is a town in Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain; see Posadas, Córdoba .

J. Posadas was a Trotskyist leader who broke with the Fourth InternationalThe Fourth International was an international organisation of Trotskyist communists. It was founded in 1938 in Paris, with the backing of Leon Trotsky, to serve as an alternative to the Stalinist Comintern (the Third International) The Fourth Internationa and founded his own movement, the Fourth International (Posadist)