Mirna Brlosic has prepared a beautiful and informative presentation with the basic facts of Easter in Croatia

1. Easter in Croatia
Mirna Brlošić

2. Lent
Lent is a period of penitence and fasting.
It starts 40 days before Easter Sunday.
In Lent many Christians commit to fasting as well as
giving up certain luxuries or quitting some habits
(smoking, drinking, cursing,...)

3. Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter celebrated in
commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
They are taken to a church to be blessed. After the blessing, they are
hung around the house as a protection against bad luck and evil spirits.
Since palms are scarce in Croatia, olive or rosemary
branches are an acceptable substitute.

4. Palm Sunday
In some parts of Croatia people are washing their face with water
from the plastic basin in which they previously put flowers.
In that way you are paying homage to water, flowers, spring and
youthfulness.

5. The Easter observances continue throughout Holy Week. In many towns, there are
different ceremonies and processions every night.
1. Maundy Thursday 2. Good Friday
(You should eat only once in a day and not eat meat)
3. Holy Saturday 4. Easter

6. Easter
Easter is the holiest day of the year in Croatia.
Symbols: rabbits, easter eggs, chick

7. Easter eggs
„pisanice” brightly painted eggs
Before paint became common, villagers used natural dyes
made from plants and vegetables.

8. Easter eggs
an Easter egg „fight” - a game that is played before every meal
Everyone chooses an egg from a basket and hits it against their
adversary's egg. The winner is the one who emerges with an
intact egg.

9. Food
The foods in the baskets are blessed (usually the day before) and
eaten for breakfast on Easter morning.
The traditional breakfast food: ham, eggs, raw radishes, spring
onions and horseradish.

10. Presents
If you want the Easter bunny to bring you presents, you
need to make a nest the day before. The nest is usually
made out of fresh grass or straw.
Most common presents are chocolate eggs, chocolate
bunnys, money, a toy. You don’t get as many presents as
you would get for Christmas.

11. Easter in Osijek
Biker bunnys (but only one or two are
actually dressed as a bunny) are giving
chocolate to the people gathered on the main
square.
Huge egg hunt is organised in the center.
Children are seaching for the chocolate eggs
that are hidden all around the main square.