Today, Sunday April 12, is Orthodox Easter Sunday, the culmination of the Great and Holy Week, the most important religious holiday in Greece.
The annual commemoration of Easter – called the Great and Holy Pascha in the Greek Orthodox tradition, with Pascha meaning “Passover” in Aramaic – is one of the two major travel and holiday periods in the country, with urban-dwellers traditionally heading for the provinces, ancestral villages and islands, and many returning to their ancestral towns and villages.
The other is the August vacation period, which starts around Aug. 1 and culminates in another major religious feast day: the Dormition of the Virgin on Aug. 15.
Easter Sunday in Greece is characterized by the outdoor roasting of a lamb or goat on a spit, on grills and large ovens; the gathering of family and friends, often in a rural setting, and the exchange of red eggs – which have been dyed on Holy Thursday – which when cracked against each other symbolize Christ’s resurrection from the dead and birth into eternal life.
The exit of urban dwellers this Easter has again been characterized as one of the biggest in recent years, taking advantage of the relatively good weather.
Source: tovima.com
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