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One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

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Easter is the biggest religious holiday in Ukraine. Most of Ukrainian people celebrate Easter a week later than catholic world. We are Orthodox (like Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro etc). Easter Sunday was at April, 8, this year.

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In Ukraine Easter is celebrated during few days. There is usually no work done, much food consum and many hours spend in church, as well as with family and friends. In Ukraine Easter is called “Velykden” (The Great Day).

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The most prominent secular symbol of the holiday is Easter egg. We call it in Ukraine “pysanka”. The word “pysanka” comes from the verb “pysaty” (to write). We have old traditions to decorated Easter eggs in each Ukrainian region.

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There’s an Easter eggs exhibition at the center of Kyiv every year. Can you imagine 500 gigantic Easter eggs in one place? It’s really amazing!

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But this year there's a big surprise for visitors.There is not only eggs. Easter bunny – traditional symbol of Catholic Easter – appears this year in Ukraine! 374 different bunnies in Kyiv. Awesome!

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Exhibition will work until April, 22. Come to Ukraine!!!

What do you think @OSAMA @ AlejandraMaría  @SarahKa @MiaMaria @BishowvijayaP @HelloSamsonR @AkmalB  @Julien44 @Jesi @NunungAfuah

 

 

 

Kyiv, Украина
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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

OMG @NatalkaR this is very big easter bunny & Eggs :-)))

I remember i have  pysanka gift shape from Ukraine 🎉🎁🎉🎁🎉🎁🎉🎁

Very nice post and Country :-)))

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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

Wow very beautiful @NatalkaR

 

Thank you for the wonderful post Natalka. I really enjoyed it. 😀😀😀

 

Cheers

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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

@NatalkaR that exhibition looks awesome! I love how creative the eggs and bunnies are. My favorite is the bunny with bunnies drawn in it. Your photos were great too, they showed how many statues they are, it's different reading it from a number than seeing it. 

I wish I could go ☺️

Thank you for tagging me and for sharing this with us!

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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

Wow @NatalkaR, what a beautiful post. I love exhibition of Easter eggs.

My egg is a bit more traditional (and smaller), coming from KharkivIMG_20180413_002211.jpg

 

 

A present from a friend during my working experience in there.

In Italy, we use chocolate eggs for EasterIMG_20180329_193458.jpg

 

 

Sometimes they are very big, like this one

 

Thanks a lot for sharing

 

Ermes

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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

@ErmesT thank you so much!!!! I don't know about your work in Ukraine! amazing! 

I love your Ukrainian Easter egg! :-)))))))))

And I like very much Italian tradition with chocolate egg. It's very tasty and cute!

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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

@Jesi @Badruddeen @OSAMA thanks for your nice words!!!!!!!!!!!! 

@JustineOBrien @ValeriaAumasque did you see Ukrainian Easter bunnies? :-))))))))))))

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Re: One day in Kyiv: 374 Easter bunnies and 500 gigantic Easter eggs

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It was really coolIt was really cool

 

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Incredible holiday