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Culture

Lithuanian Easter Traditions

During Easter celebrations, Lithuanians don’t use the images of cute and
fuzzy bunnies hiding their eggs all around. Instead, they have the Easter
Granny. This charming old lady known as Velykų Bobutė is the one that
brings the Easter eggs to the children, although it is true that she has some
bunnies that act as her assistants and help to decorate the eggs and load her
cart before she goes to deliver them. Easter is a very important time for
families in Lithuania, where everybody gets together to share large amounts
of delicious food and decorate Easter eggs with natural dies such as boiled
red onion skins, which are then scratched to make a design in white.

The ancient Lithuanians the sky. Black eggs represent egg to see which one would
believed that coloring or the ground. Yellow eggs break. The family member with
decorating the eggs gave them represent ripe corn and wheat the surviving egg would have
even more magical and mystical at the harvest. great luck and prosperity for
powers, so the eggs were the upcoming year. The person
decorated and cherished by all. who taps or touches an egg gets
The original egg decorating was to keep it. The game goes on
done with natural herbs, trees, until all the eggs are collected.
flowers, and roots. The most The person who collects the
ornate eggs were dipped in hot most eggs will have the best
wax to make beautiful designs. luck and good harvest for the
They were colored and upcoming year.
decorated as a sign to the Pagan
Gods on what was needed. For
example: if they hoped for a
sunny year for the village, they
would paint eggs with a sun. If
they needed more rain, they
would paint raindrops.
The color of the eggs also had Eggs were used in games – one
meaning. The red eggs such game was called tapping
represent life. The green eggs the egg. Each family member
represent the awakening of would pick an egg. Each would
vegetation. Blue eggs represent tap another family member’s

The Prado Museum

A National museum that is reference to our culture and history, no
doubt is The Prado Museum. It is located in the very centre of
Madrid and where you can learn about Spain walking along its
corridors.
European artists such as Velázquez, Goya, Raphael, Rubens, and Bosch
(among other major Italian and Flemish artists), is housed in an 18th-
century Neo-Classical building opened as a museum in 1819.

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