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Twinbus Travel Agency - travel through Easter
Romania, Poland, Portugal,
Cyprus, Spain, Greece
Palm Sunday Dyed and painted eggs
Blessed by priest traditional food
Going to the Church for the ceremony with all the family Easter Monday- Wet Monday
( young men and bys spray perfume on the girls and
women )
Different date for Easter time- early may this year-
same as Greece and Cyprus
Romania
Cornelia- Brasov
Dyed and painted eggs.
Sponge cakes and ,,pasca,,brought to
the church to be blessed and then eaten at Easter
Going to the Church with the family at
night , at Easter Eve, taking light to bring it
home and to the graves of our deads.
Valy Romania
Painting eggs Making palms, celebrating
Palm Sunday Going to the church with
the basket full of food to be blessed
Celebrating Easter breakfast with family, eating blessed food.
Easter Monday is called Wet Monday (after the
practice of men and boys pouring water on women
and girls)
Poland
Jolanta - Poland
Portugal
Traditions of Holy Week. Painting eggs Making cards
Alice - Portugal
Spain Processions Palm Sunday Paint eggs (in school)
Maite - Spain
Greece Attending the evening mass during all
days of the Holy Week. Celebrating Palm Sunday and eating fish. Eating only
vegetables and legumes during the whole week. Crucifixion of Christ on Holy
Thursday evening and dying eggs red in the afternoon. Decorating the Epitaph
with flowers on Holy Thursday night and taking it around the town on Holy Friday evening.
Going to church on Holy Saturday evening and lighting big candles at 00:00
with the holy light that comes from the Church of Resurrection in Jerusalem.
Celebrating Easter Sunday with the whole family. Visiting our villages and
eating roast lamb.
Stavroula - Greece
Easter is the greatest holiday in the Orthodox Church. Holy Week is dedicated to church-going and to baking. Palm Sunday -Olive leaves are put
into pillow-case-like sacks which are taken to church; there they are kept for forty days after
which they can be used for incense burning. On Thursday most women do their Easter baking
of "flaounes", a kind of cheese cake found in Cyprus Eggs are dyed as well. Traditionally they
are dyed red with a special root called "rizari"žHolly Thursday commemorates the Last
Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles. Good Friday begins with everyone taking flowers to church so that the young girls can decorate the
"Epitafios" ~ Holy Sepulchre On Saturday evening everyone goes to church with a candle. When the priest proclaims that
"Christ has risen", all candles are lit and everyone greets everyone else with "Christos anesti"
~Christ has risen, to which the other answers "Alithos anesti" ~ Indeed He has risen Everyone
celebrate Easter Sunday with their family
Cyprus
George Cyprus