Easter in Greece is the most important religious celebration, marked by traditions like dyeing eggs red on Red Thursday to commemorate Christ's blood and clinking the eggs together on Easter Sunday to see which is strongest. On Good Friday, people visit churches to pay respects to Christ at his Epitaph. Special foods associated with Easter include tsourekia sweet bread, magiritsa soup eaten after the Easter church service, and ovelias lamb roasted outside homes. Easter falls during spring weather, giving Greeks another reason to relax and enjoy the holiday before final exams.

1. Easter in Greece is the most important
religious celebration and dyed eggs
one of its most characteristic
symbols!

2. So the custom is that on “Red Thursday"
-the one before Easter Sunday- all
housewives dye their eggs red (in
memory of Christ’s blood) and decorate
their house with them putting the eggs
in beautiful baskets. The same eggs will
be clinked on Sunday and the one who
chooses the strongest egg in the family
is the winner.

3. Another important religious custom of these
days is the one that happens on Friday before
Sunday Easter. That day all churches have
Christ’s “Epitaph” in them. All people go to
them and pay their respects to Christ
(remembering his death and looking forward

4. As far as food is concerned Easter has
many special dishes and sweets made only
at this time of the year. One of the most
characteristic ones is “tsourekia” (you can
see them in the picture behind) which are a
kind of sweet bread perfect to accompany
your milk or coffee. Also a special soup
called “magiritsa” that we eat after we come
back from church at Sunday night. Last
but not least “ovelias” which is lamb baked
in a specific way outside the houses and it
is eaten on Sunday Easter!

5. Above all Easter is another holiday and
since it is usually in the middle of spring
when the weather is so fine we have another
good reason to enjoy it for it is our last
chance to relax before the final exams…So
again have a Happy Easter!!!

6. Above all Easter is another holiday and
since it is usually in the middle of spring
when the weather is so fine we have another
good reason to enjoy it for it is our last
chance to relax before the final exams…So
again have a Happy Easter!!!