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Påske og stillehelg i januar
Påske og stillehelg i februar
- Addis Ababa 🇪🇹 EthiopiaHudadi, the Great Lent fast · 10. feb – 2. mai (vanligvis)For the 55 days before Ethiopian Easter the Orthodox majority gives up meat, dairy and eggs.94
- Antigua Guatemala 🇬🇹 GuatemalaLenten processions · 15. feb – 27. mar (vanligvis)Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it.91
- Gondar 🇪🇹 EthiopiaAbiy Tsom, the Great Lent · 10. feb – 1. mai (vanligvis)The 55-day Orthodox fast before Fasika: most local restaurants switch to fasting food with no meat, dairy or eggs, which makes it the best time for shiro and vegetable platters and the hardest for a steak.91
- Cap-Haïtien 🇭🇹 HaitiRara season · 10. feb – 25. apr (vanligvis)From the first Sunday of Lent until Easter, rara bands walk the streets on Sunday nights with drums and bamboo vaksin horns, growing louder each week toward Holy Week.78
- Port-au-Prince 🇭🇹 HaitiRara season · 10. feb – 25. apr (vanligvis)Between the first Sunday of Lent and Easter, rara bands parade on Sunday nights with drums and vaksin horns.75
- Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 United StatesLenten fish fries · 4. feb – 23. apr (vanligvis)Every Friday in Lent, church halls, fire stations and bars across the city serve fish sandwiches with pierogies and haluski.52
Påske og stillehelg i mars
- San Pedro de Atacama 🇨🇱 ChileSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.97
- Kangaroo Island 🇦🇺 AustraliaEaster long weekend · 20. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday to Easter Monday is a four-day national long weekend, usually next to or inside the autumn school holidays.97
- Lanzarote 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.95
- Tenerife 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.95
- La Serena 🇨🇱 ChileSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.95
- Marrakesh 🇲🇦 MoroccoEaster week · 25. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)European school holidays fill the riads at the best time of year for the medina.94
- Puerto Madryn 🇦🇷 ArgentinaSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.94
- Viña del Mar 🇨🇱 ChileSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.94
- Las Palmas 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.93
- San Cristóbal de las Casas 🇲🇽 MexicoSemana Santa and Pascua · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Holy Week and the Easter week after it are Mexico's main spring break: schools close, domestic travellers fill hotels and long-distance buses, rates rise, and many offices and shops shut on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.93
- Mazatlán 🇲🇽 MexicoSemana Santa · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)Mexican school holidays land on Holy Week and the whole of Sinaloa and Durango drives to this beach.93
- Hermanus 🇿🇦 South AfricaEaster Passion Play · 20. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)On Good Friday evening a cast of local volunteers stages the life of Christ against the cliffs of the Old Harbour, with lights and music.93
- Valparaíso 🇨🇱 ChileSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.92
- Baguio 🇵🇭 PhilippinesHoly Week · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)The single busiest week of the Baguio year — booked months ahead, with much of Manila in town and the churches full from Thursday.92
- Margaret River 🇦🇺 AustraliaEaster long weekend · 20. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday to Easter Monday is a four-day national long weekend, usually next to or inside the autumn school holidays.92
- Cafayate 🇦🇷 ArgentinaSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.92
- Auckland 🇳🇿 New ZealandEaster coastal exodus · 20. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Four days off send the city north to the coastal towns and the Coromandel.91
- Guatemala City 🇬🇹 GuatemalaSemana Santa · 20. mar – 15. apr (vanligvis)The capital empties for the week — to Antigua, to the coast, to Atitlán — and the processions that stay are in Zona 1.91
- Guanajuato 🇲🇽 MexicoViernes de Dolores and Holy Week · 15. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)On the Friday before Palm Sunday the old mine works, plazas and shop doorways fill with flower altars and people hand out ice water and paletas in the street.91
- Fuerteventura 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.91
- San Miguel de Allende 🇲🇽 MexicoSemana Santa · 14. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)Two weeks of processions rather than one, starting with the Senor de la Columna walked in from Atotonilco before dawn on the Sunday before Palm Sunday.91
- Knysna 🇿🇦 South AfricaEaster long weekend · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.91
- Jeffreys Bay 🇿🇦 South AfricaEaster long weekend · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.91
- Mexico City 🇲🇽 MexicoSemana Santa · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)The capital empties for the week as families head to the coast, which makes it the easiest the traffic ever gets.90
- Funchal 🇵🇹 PortugalEaster week · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches.90
… og 397 til i mars.
Påske og stillehelg i april
- Jerusalem 🇮🇱 IsraelHoly Week and Easter · 20. mar – 10. mai (vanligvis)Western and Orthodox Easter often fall a week or more apart, so the Old City runs two sets of processions.96
- Larnaca 🇨🇾 CyprusOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Cyprus's biggest holiday: Good Friday processions, midnight Resurrection services with fireworks, then family feasts.96
- Lanzarote 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.96
- Tenerife 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.96
- Limassol 🇨🇾 CyprusOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 5. mai (vanligvis)Shops and offices shut from Good Friday and the city goes to the villages in the Troodos foothills.96
- Bethlehem 🇵🇸 PalestineHoly Week and Easter · 20. mar – 5. mai (vanligvis)Palm Sunday to Easter, with the Western and Eastern dates usually a week or so apart and pilgrims walking the road from Jerusalem for both.96
- Paphos 🇨🇾 CyprusOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 5. mai (vanligvis)The biggest week of the Cypriot year: bonfires outside the village churches on the Saturday night, lamb on the Sunday, and everything except the tavernas shut for two days.94
- Seville 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)Sixty brotherhoods walk from their churches to the cathedral over eight days and nights.94
- Mendoza 🇦🇷 ArgentinaSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.94
- Beirut 🇱🇧 LebanonEaster, twice · 20. mar – 10. mai (vanligvis)Lebanon keeps both calendars, so the country effectively takes two Easters some years and the closures are spread across several weeks.94
- Málaga 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 20. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Malaga's processions are the heaviest in Spain — thrones carried by two hundred men, moving through the centre from afternoon into the small hours all week.94
- Las Palmas 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.94
- Nafplio 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The Good Friday epitaphios processions come down through the marble streets to the waterfront, and the whole of Athens seems to have booked the same weekend.94
- Athens 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 28. mar – 5. mai (vanligvis)Athens empties for a week as the city goes back to the villages.93
- Heraklion 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Shops, museums and half the restaurants shut from Good Friday through Easter Monday while the villages roast lamb.93
- Rhodes 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Greeks travel for it, so the ferries and the island hotels fill before the foreign season starts.93
- Cape Town 🇿🇦 South AfricaEaster long weekend · 20. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.93
- San Pedro de Atacama 🇨🇱 ChileSemana Santa · 15. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.93
- Valletta 🇲🇹 MaltaGood Friday processions · 20. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis)Holy Week peaks on Good Friday, a public holiday when shops shut and costumed processions carry life-size statues of the Passion through town.93
- Nicosia 🇨🇾 CyprusOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Shops, museums and offices in the south close for the long weekend and the city empties towards the villages and the coast.93
- Byblos 🇱🇧 LebanonHoly Week · 20. mar – 10. mai (vanligvis)Byblos is a Christian town and Holy Week is its serious season, with processions out of the old churches and the port restaurants opening properly for the first time since autumn.93
- Marrakesh 🇲🇦 MoroccoEaster week · 25. mar – 20. apr (vanligvis)European school holidays fill the riads at the best time of year for the medina.92
- Funchal 🇵🇹 PortugalEaster week · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches.92
- Santorini 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 5. mai (vanligvis)The villages fill for the week: an effigy burned in Pyrgos on the Saturday, lamb on the Sunday, and the island open for business a fortnight early.92
- Valencia 🇪🇸 SpainSemana Santa · 15. mar – 26. apr (vanligvis)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.92
… og 438 til i april.
Påske og stillehelg i mai
- Paphos 🇨🇾 CyprusOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 5. mai (vanligvis)The biggest week of the Cypriot year: bonfires outside the village churches on the Saturday night, lamb on the Sunday, and everything except the tavernas shut for two days.95
- Paros 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The Ekatontapyliani in Parikia is one of the oldest churches in Greece and it fills for the Friday epitaphios.95
- Heraklion 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Shops, museums and half the restaurants shut from Good Friday through Easter Monday while the villages roast lamb.94
- Santorini 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 5. mai (vanligvis)The villages fill for the week: an effigy burned in Pyrgos on the Saturday, lamb on the Sunday, and the island open for business a fortnight early.94
- Mykonos 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The island's real new year: Greek visitors arrive, the first hotels unshutter and Chora goes from village to resort inside a week.94
- Zakynthos 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Zakynthos keeps a Venetian-influenced Easter with brass bands behind the epitaphios, and the island opens for the season the same week the charter flights restart.94
- Athens 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 28. mar – 5. mai (vanligvis)Athens empties for a week as the city goes back to the villages.93
- Rhodes 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Greeks travel for it, so the ferries and the island hotels fill before the foreign season starts.93
- Belgrade 🇷🇸 SerbiaOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.93
- Salamanca 🇪🇸 SpainLunes de Aguas · 30. mar – 5. mai (vanligvis)The Monday after Easter Monday, when the whole city takes hornazo, a pork and egg pie, down to the banks of the Tormes and eats outdoors.93
- Kos 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The first weekend the island wakes up: Greek families come out from Athens and the Dodecanese, the tavernas in Kos town reopen for it, and the spit-roasts are on the Sunday.93
- Niš 🇷🇸 SerbiaOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.93
- Naxos 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Naxos does Easter better than most of the Cyclades because it has villages rather than just a port.93
- Kefalonia 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Athens comes over for the long weekend and it is the moment the island wakes up: tavernas reopen, the ferries add sailings and the villages roast lamb on the Sunday.93
- Corfu 🇬🇷 GreeceCorfu Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The most Venetian Easter in Greece: philharmonic bands in the streets all week, then at eleven on Holy Saturday morning the old town throws clay pots of water off its balconies.92
- Nafplio 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The Good Friday epitaphios processions come down through the marble streets to the waterfront, and the whole of Athens seems to have booked the same weekend.92
- Jerusalem 🇮🇱 IsraelHoly Week and Easter · 20. mar – 10. mai (vanligvis)Western and Orthodox Easter often fall a week or more apart, so the Old City runs two sets of processions.91
- Chania 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The biggest weekend of the Greek year: the villages fill with returning families, lamb goes on the spit on Sunday and shops shut for days around it.91
- Limassol 🇨🇾 CyprusOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 5. mai (vanligvis)Shops and offices shut from Good Friday and the city goes to the villages in the Troodos foothills.91
- Novi Sad 🇷🇸 SerbiaOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.91
- Timișoara 🇷🇴 RomaniaOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.91
- Chișinău 🇲🇩 MoldovaOrthodox Easter and Blajini · 5. apr – 20. mai (vanligvis)Midnight services, then a week later Paștele Blajinilor, when families eat at the graves and the roads out to the villages jam solid for a day.91
- Milos 🇬🇷 GreeceOrthodox Easter · 1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)Greeks come home for it and the island effectively opens for the year the same weekend.91
- Bethlehem 🇵🇸 PalestineHoly Week and Easter · 20. mar – 5. mai (vanligvis)Palm Sunday to Easter, with the Western and Eastern dates usually a week or so apart and pilgrims walking the road from Jerusalem for both.91
- Bucharest 🇷🇴 RomaniaOrthodox Easter · 5. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)The city empties to the villages for the long weekend.90
… og 27 til i mai.