April Poland

Easter

Poland is a country full of unique traditions and customs, especially when it comes to holidays. As Easter is the most important holiday, even more than Christmas, we would like to tell you a few things about it so you won’t be surprised if you get a chance to celebrate it in our country.

As you might know the entire week before Easter is called Holy Week, and during that time there’s a lot of things going on here.

Palm Sunday

Exactly 7 days before the main celebrations take place, people gather for a procession with palms in their hands. This is the moment when they begin to celebrate. 

Blessing of the easter baskets

It is blessing the food that will be eaten during the Easter feast. Of course, you won’t spot people bringing tables full of many traditional dishes right to the front of the church (it would be funny though) instead, a small amount of the most important food like eggs, bread, meat and butter are put inside the basket. It’s a very important tradition in Polish culture so you can often spot entire families participating in it.

Holy Sunday

Sunday morning in this case means the big, traditional, family breakfast. It starts with sharing of the blessed food we’ve already talked about between family members. It’s also a time of small talk between each other during which everyone wishes each other and themselves all the best. After that, the main activity takes place – eating. We won’t lie to you! Some people may say that Easter is all about tradition, celebration, meeting with family but deep down they know that it’s also mainly (or all) about food. After the breakfast is finished, people take a walk and enjoy the rest of the day.

Easter Eggs

In Poland eggs are not only used as food on the table. As well, they’re an important part of the Easter tradition. Children decorate them with paints, crayons, stickers, tissue-paper etc. After they’re ready they are used as a decoration for the Easter table and they’re also a part of the Easter bucket.

Wet Monday

You do everything that make others all wet. Don’t be surprised when you see a small boy running around with the big bucket of water ready to pour it out on a random girl he sees. The most dangerous places during that day? Churches, parks, small streets, squares…well to be honest, you can’t feel 100% safe anywhere ;).

 CARPETA APRIL