Easter chocolate eggs March 15, 2008

A very nice Easter Italian tradition is to exchange chocolate eggs. Confectioners have prepared hundreds of chocolate eggs so in the shop windows of our cities, towns and villages you can see a big choice of eggs: big or small, made of milk chocolate or plain chocolate

decorated with sugar or wrapped with coloured paper

Every egg contains a surprise. Children are always very curious and they would like to break the egg before Easter to see the present in it but the tradition says that Easter eggs can be broken only on Easter morning . So they have to wait.

Generally in children eggs we find bracelets, rings, earrings, gadgets , key-rings, small toys ; they are not precious presents but all the children are very excited when they break their eggs.

Arianna and Ludovica class 2C Scuola Media Vivaldi Alessandria

Easter March 15, 2008

Easter is called “Pasqua” in Italy.

It is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus which Christians believe occurred the third day after his crucifixion.

It is a movable date, not fixed. This year it is on March 23rd.

In Italy Easter is celebrated by the Church but there are also non religious traditions and a lot of good recipes.

March 15, 2008

We are going to explain some of the most interesting Italian Easter traditions

Kids of class 2A Scuola Media “Vivaldi” Alessandria