{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.casta-ada","code":"thing-q914381","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q914381/","name":"Castañada","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Castañada is a traditional autumn celebration centred on eating roasted chestnuts, notably observed in Catalonia around All Saints' Day, where it is called Castanyada.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise, describe and support a Castañada celebration while preserving its locally expressed traditions and distinguishing it from other autumn events.","scope":{"in":["Identification of a gathering as Castañada through its name, practices and community attribution","Relationship between the celebration's actual dates and the All Saints seasonal context","Preparation and sharing of chestnuts and locally associated festive foods","Family, school and community enactments and their participant roles","Transmission, adaptation and locally attributed meanings of the celebration"],"out":["Chestnut cultivation, botanical classification and commodity supply chains","Recipes and food production methods except where they explain a celebratory practice","The full religious observance of All Saints and commemorations of the dead","Halloween and other autumn festivals as independent traditions","Chestnut-selling occupations and businesses beyond their participation in a celebration"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Require explicit local identification or contextual evidence of Castañada; serving roasted chestnuts alone does not establish an instance.","Record an evidenced relationship to the All Saints season without making one exact calendar date a universal admission rule.","Distinguish a celebration involving shared food and social participation from a routine chestnut purchase or meal.","Treat Halloween activities within a jointly advertised gathering as associated components, rather than evidence that the two traditions are identical.","Test whether a regional chestnut celebration is locally identified with Castañada before treating similar foods as proof of equivalence."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"celebration-identity","name":"Celebration identity","description":"Establish which celebration the registry name denotes and what qualifies as an occurrence.","layers":[{"id":"name-and-community","name":"Name and community","description":"Connect the registry label to names used by hosts and participants.","findings":[{"id":"castanyada-working-identification","name":"Castanyada as the working identification","description":"The Catalan heritage inventory documents a Barcelona Castanyada associated with Tots Sants. This supports the working interpretation but does not establish the full scope of the registry entry. Source: [Generalitat festive heritage inventory](https://patrimonifestiu.cultura.gencat.cat/Tots-Sants-Barcelona-la-Castanyada).","questions":[{"text":"Does the registry's originating record identify Castañada specifically with Catalan Castanyada?","id":"castanyada-working-identification-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What name and language do this occurrence's hosts and participants use?","id":"castanyada-working-identification-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]},{"id":"recognition-boundaries","name":"Recognition boundaries","description":"Distinguish celebration membership from resemblance in ingredients or season.","findings":[{"id":"chestnuts-do-not-suffice","name":"Chestnuts do not suffice","description":"Recognition should combine community attribution and celebratory context; a chestnut dish, stall or unrelated harvest fair is insufficient by itself.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence identifies this gathering as Castañada beyond the presence of chestnuts?","id":"chestnuts-do-not-suffice-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"If another regional name is used, who establishes its relationship to this celebration?","id":"chestnuts-do-not-suffice-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"season-and-occasion","name":"Season and occasion","description":"Represent seasonal association, actual scheduling and the social setting of each occurrence.","layers":[{"id":"all-saints-timing","name":"All Saints timing","description":"Separate the festival's calendar reference from the date chosen for a gathering.","findings":[{"id":"reference-date-and-actual-date","name":"Reference date and actual date","description":"The Barcelona heritage entry describes eating panellets, chestnuts and roasted sweet potatoes on 1 November. Record each occurrence's actual date independently of this documented reference. Source: [Generalitat festive heritage inventory](https://patrimonifestiu.cultura.gencat.cat/Tots-Sants-Barcelona-la-Castanyada).","questions":[{"text":"When does this occurrence take place, and how do its hosts relate that date to All Saints?","id":"reference-date-and-actual-date-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Would a gathering outside the usual season still be recognised locally as Castañada, and on what grounds?","id":"reference-date-and-actual-date-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"hosting-and-participation","name":"Hosting and participation","description":"Describe how a shared celebration is convened and entered.","findings":[{"id":"gathering-format","name":"Gathering format","description":"Record whether the occurrence centres on a household meal, school activity or community gathering, and identify who hosts and participates without assuming all formats share one programme.","questions":[{"text":"Who convenes this Castañada, for which participants and in what setting?","id":"gathering-format-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What invitation, registration or contribution arrangements must an agent respect when helping someone participate?","id":"gathering-format-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"foods-and-enactment","name":"Foods and enactment","description":"Capture the food-centred practices and cultural activities selected for this celebration.","layers":[{"id":"chestnuts-and-accompaniments","name":"Chestnuts and accompaniments","description":"Record festive foods through their roles in preparation and sharing.","findings":[{"id":"local-food-repertoire","name":"Local food repertoire","description":"Use chestnuts, panellets and roasted sweet potatoes as documented prompts for inquiry, not a mandatory menu. Record substitutions, omissions and their local interpretation.","questions":[{"text":"Which foods are prepared or shared here, and which do participants consider characteristic of their Castañada?","id":"local-food-repertoire-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which food substitutions can accommodate participants while retaining the hosts' intended celebratory meaning?","id":"local-food-repertoire-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"castanyera-and-activities","name":"Castanyera and activities","description":"Distinguish food provision, character performance and participatory activities.","findings":[{"id":"castanyera-role-and-programme","name":"Castanyera role and programme","description":"A Barcelona district programme documents castanyera visits, puppets, songs and children's workshops. These demonstrate possible public formats without making them requirements for every occurrence. Source: [Horta-Guinardó Castañada programme](https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/horta-guinardo/es/noticias/llega-todos-los-santos-tiempo-de-castanas-y-panellets-a-hortaguinardo-1565215).","questions":[{"text":"Does the castanyera appear as a seller, performed character or representation, and what role does that appearance serve?","id":"castanyera-role-and-programme-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which roasting, storytelling, singing or workshop activities are planned, and which were actually carried out?","id":"castanyera-role-and-programme-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"meaning-and-continuity","name":"Meaning and continuity","description":"Represent attributed meanings, transmission and adaptation without inventing a single origin or authentic form.","layers":[{"id":"memory-and-origin-accounts","name":"Memory and origin accounts","description":"Separate participants' present meanings from claims about historical development.","findings":[{"id":"attributed-meanings","name":"Attributed meanings","description":"Record remembrance, family custom or other meanings only with attribution; evaluate historical origin stories separately from their use in contemporary storytelling.","questions":[{"text":"What meanings do participants give this Castañada, including any connection they make to deceased relatives?","id":"attributed-meanings-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What historical evidence supports each origin account, and what remains a narrated tradition?","id":"attributed-meanings-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"transmission-and-hybrid-events","name":"Transmission and hybrid events","description":"Track how hosts pass on practices and combine them with other seasonal activities.","findings":[{"id":"adaptation-with-local-attribution","name":"Adaptation with local attribution","description":"Describe changes through hosts' and participants' accounts, including which activities they identify as Castañada and which belong to a combined programme.","questions":[{"text":"What do hosts intend participants to learn or continue about Castañada through this occurrence?","id":"adaptation-with-local-attribution-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"If Halloween or another festival shares the programme, how do participants distinguish or intentionally combine its practices with Castañada?","id":"adaptation-with-local-attribution-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Castañada this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Castañada this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Castañada this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Castañada this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the celebration, its foods and customs from cultural sources.","Help organizers plan a celebration with safe roasting and food handling."],"mustNot":["Present the celebration as a branch of other autumn festivals and ignore its local roots.","Mock regional or linguistic traditions connected with it.","Encourage open fires for roasting where they are forbidden or unsafe."],"requiresHuman":["Changing a community event's traditional form or timing."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Local traditions are part of a community's identity, including in Catalonia its language.","Nut allergies and open fires are real hazards at public celebrations."],"affectedParties":["Local communities","Children at events","People with nut allergies"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns it; communities, schools and local associations keep the tradition.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q3092846","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.casta-ada","Wikidata: Q914381 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q914381)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Locally used celebration name: Verbatim name, language and attributed naming community","All Saints relationship: Explicitly associated; associated through documented scheduling; not stated; disputed","Occurrence schedule: Local calendar dates and times, with year and time zone where relevant","Celebration setting: Household; school; neighbourhood; cultural venue; other documented setting","Festive food participation: Food linked to preparation, roasting, sharing, tasting or symbolic display; planned or observed","Castanyera involvement: Seller; performed character; story or image; absent; undocumented","Attributed celebratory meaning: Participant-described family custom, seasonal gathering, remembrance, cultural transmission or other meaning, with attribution","Occurrence status: Proposed; scheduled; underway; completed; cancelled; uncertain"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Roasted chestnuts served in paper cones, with sweet potatoes and small marzipan cakes.","Chestnut sellers in traditional dress at autumn stalls."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Classify a candidate gathering using its locally used name, seasonal context and enacted practices.","Compare local Castañada celebrations without ranking them against an invented universal standard.","Plan a celebration around the host community's selected foods, activities and participation arrangements.","Explain the distinction between Castañada, All Saints observances and activities shared with Halloween.","Document adaptations and contested origin accounts with their sources and speakers."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Burns from roasting fires and hot chestnuts that burst.","Allergic reactions to nuts and marzipan."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Castañada celebrations bring families and communities together during autumn to share roasted chestnuts and locally traditional foods.","In Catalonia, the celebration is particularly associated with gatherings around All Saints' Day.","Related celebrations in northern Spain and Portugal have local names and customs that should be described according to the community concerned."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q914381: Castañada","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q914381","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Castanyada","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanyada","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Does vr.tr.casta-ada denote Catalan Castanyada specifically or a broader set of regional chestnut celebrations?","Which existing Vercy model, if any, already covers this celebration and should remain its single source of truth?","Which practices do different participating communities consider sufficient to recognise Castañada when characteristic foods or seasonal timing are absent?","Which historical accounts of its relationship to remembrance of the dead are supported by dated evidence?","How do participants describe continuity and change in school celebrations, diaspora settings and programmes combined with Halloween?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q914381/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q914381/spec.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-12T08:25:30Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"not-applicable","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-07T10:10:33+00:00: completeness 1.00; sense: Wikidata description; 2 live sources; review by codex: pass","interaction.properties":"Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.","interaction.interfaces":"There is no single dedicated standard or regulation governing Castañada as a cultural tradition across the regions where it is celebrated."},"score":1.0}}