EASTER WEEK

Easter is a traditional festivity in Valencia. This festivity starts when Holy week ends. Many families go to picnics in the countryside. The ‘’Mona’’ is a typical food of Easter Monday, and the most popular custom is of making a field trip to eat as a family.

The “Mona” is often consumed at days of Easter accompanied by Easter sausage and is usual break an egg on the forehead of another person. You can also accompany with chocolate if the “Mona” has been sprinkled with sugar and lacks the boiled egg. It is tradition to hike into the countryside to spend the afternoon eating and playing it off with a comet.

Traditionally the godfather gives his godson the “Mona’” on Easter Sunday after church.

Easter Monday is a tradition where two or three families or a group of friends go to eat to a place and make a feast in which there are plenty of lamb chops, grilled rabbit, paella and, above all, wine. In many towns the bakeries are competing to display on your showcase the most spectacular chocolate sculpture, which can be a model of a building a picture of a popular character or set of chocolate or nougat figures.

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