Easter 2025

[karadekoolaid]

Easter monday here too and we are wondering if the shops are open. I think they might be. Semana Santa (Easter) is a week long celebration here but the weeks up and mondays not a bank holiday in Spain so there's a chance.

Yep, Semana Santa has just finished here, as in all Spanish-speaking countries. It runs from 13th April (Palm Sunday) through to 20th April (Easter Sunday) and then it's, supposedly, back to normal. No Easter Monday here, but official holidays are Thursday, Friday and Sunday, so there's very little commerce open from Wednesday until today.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Yep, Semana Santa has just finished here, as in all Spanish-speaking countries. It runs from 13th April (Palm Sunday) through to 20th April (Easter Sunday) and then it's, supposedly, back to normal. No Easter Monday here, but official holidays are Thursday, Friday and Sunday, so there's very little commerce open from Wednesday until today.

Here they have 'bridging holidays' so if a holiday falls near another holiday they join them up and take a week or a long weekend.

They get 14 public holidays 8 are national holidays and the individual municipalities decide on the rest.
As there are over 8000 municipalities in Spain this generally means no-one has a clue when anythings open, and of course they generally place them one day away from a national holiday so a bridging holiday in-between is allowed. They do like a party

 

[msmofet]

We had my homemade meat filled canneloni.
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YUM!

Have you posted the recipe? If not PRETTY please.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

I just finished packing up all of the leftover Honey Baked Ham.
Sent a plate of food home with Mom and got another probably 4-5 more meals for DH & I in the deep freeze.
The Ham Bone I froze as well, I'll get to that later - not sure yet what I'll do with it ...