1. LENT
AND
EASTER
Lent and Easter celebrations in Catalonia
By students in 5th and 6th year
School El Castellot
La Múnia – Castellví de la Marca
Catalonia - Spain

2. THE OLD LENT HAS
SEVEN LEGS BECAUSE
THERE ARE SEVEN
WEEKS IN LENT

3. Old Lent
The Old Lent “Vella
Quaresma”is an
old lady who has
seven legs.

4. OLD LENT’S LEGS HELP US COUNT THE FORTY DAYS
IN LENT.

5. THE OLD LENT
We cut one of her legs every Friday,
until Easter.
She has a small present for us each
week!

6. On 13th April we’ll
celebrate Palm
Sunday and people
carry palms.
We go to church to
get our palms
blessed.

7.  Our palms are made of palm leaves.
They can be of different colours. They’re
decorated with bows and sugar crosses.

8. In Spain they have processions during the Holy
Week. They carry big Saint sculptures along
the streets. They’re very long.

9. EASTEREASTER

10. Easter cake - “Mona”
• Easter is a traditional
festival. We celebrate it
giving a “mona”.
• For Easter our godparents
give us a chocolate cake
“mona”. It’s traditional to
put colourful feathers or
chocolate figures.

11. In Catalonia we celabrate Easter.
We eat a round cake with chocolate
figures: Eggs, hens, balls or any popular
character.

12.  It is a cake with
chocolate,cream or
nothing. Usually
decorated with
chocolate
figures,colourful
feathers and chicks

13. My godfather gives me the “Mona”
(chocolate cake) with the figure I want
(Pacman for example) and my godmother
gives me a present.

14. EASTER EGGS
We decorate
real eggs with
pictures
related with
Easter. And we
write
postcards.
By the way,
THANK YOU for your
Easter postcards. We
liked them very much!!

15. THE “MONA”
In Easter we eat “the mona “. “Mona” is the tradicional
Easter cake. They are a present from godparents
(uncles or grandparents usually).
It’s decorated with colourful feathers.
In the mona we put a chocolate figure.
In the old times, “mona” was not a cake but a “tortell”
with real eggs on it. There were as many eggs as the
child’s age.
Tortell
Easter
cake/mona

16. Easter traditions:
Most people eat the “mona”, or Easter cake on
a picnic in the countryside on Easter Monday
“Caramelles” are
traditional songs
sung on Easter

17. Lent and Easter celebrations in Catalonia
By students in 5th and 6th year
School El Castellot
La Múnia – Castellví de la Marca
Catalonia - Spain
HAPPY EASTER!!!
Thank you
for your attention
;)