17 Best Places To Celebrate Easter Around The World In 2025

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Easter is one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year, and is widely celebrated all over the world.

For anyone looking to celebrate this Holy holiday, you might be wondering where in the world to go?

Easter is celebrated in many different ways all over the world. In the Greek Island of Corfu, they throw clay pots from their windows, and in the Caribbean country of Bermuda, they fly kites this time of year.

There are more holiday traditions and celebrations to witness around the world than just Easter egg hunting and attending Church services.

If you’re thinking you might want to celebrate in a different way this year, here are some of the best places in the world to celebrate Easter!

Check out these Easter traditions from around the globe and the history behind them.

Holloko, Hungary

In the small town of Holloko in Northeast Hungary, Easter is celebrated with a tradition known as locsolkodás, or “Sprinkling” in English.

This popular Hungarian Easter Monday tradition sees boys playfully sprinkle perfume, cologne, or nowadays just water, over a young woman’s head, and ask for a kiss.

People used to believe that water had a cleaning, healing, and fertility-inducing effect.

This tradition also takes place in Poland.

Haux, France

In the town of Haux in France, a giant omelette made with 15,000 eggs that feeds 1,000 people is served up in the town’s main square.

The story goes that when Napoleon and his army were traveling through the south of France, they stopped in a small town and ate omelettes.

Napoleon liked his so much that he ordered the townspeople to gather their eggs and make a giant omelet for his army the next day.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Besides being crazy football fans, there’s a crazy tradition of creating straw dolls to represent Judas (the apostle known for betraying Christ) and hanging them in the streets and beating them up.

And many times politicians involved in scandals become Judas.

But, it’s not all aggression, and on Easter Saturday, called Sábado de Aleluia, inspires mini versions of Carnival in many small towns to celebrate the end of Lent.

This is celebrated all over Brazil, but for travelers, it’s best witnessed in Rio de Janeiro.

Seville, Spain

One of the biggest Easter celebrations in the world takes place in Seville. The tradition of Semana Santa is where 52 different religious brotherhoods parade through the streets manifesting the crucifixion.

This week-long precession from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday has thousands watching, and features marching bands and decorated candle lit floats heaving with Baroque statues from the town’s churches, illustrating the Easter story.

This tradition has been going on since the 16th century and is one of the most emotional tributes to the Easter story in the world.

Skansen, Sweden

Easter in Sweden sounds a lot like Halloween to me, with the children dressing up as Easter witches wearing long skirts, colourful headscarves and painted red cheeks.

All across the country, children go from door-to-door in their neighborhoods trading paintings and drawings in the hope of receiving sweets. It’s like trick or treat but Easter style!

This tradition is usually seen in small villages more than cities, but you can witness this culture at the open-air museum in of Skansen in Stockholm that showcases Swedish culture and traditions. 

They put on an Easter market selling decorative eggs, and on Maundy Thursday, there is free entrance to children dressed as Easter witches and wizards and can make brooms and participate in arts and crafts.

Corfu, Greece

The traditional of “Pot Throwing” of Corfu takes place on the morning of Holy Saturday.

People throw pots, pans and other earthenware out of their windows, smashing them on the street.

Some say the custom of throwing of pots welcomes spring, symbolizing the new crops that will be gathered in new pots. Some say it scares evil spirits away.

Others say it derives from the Venetians, who on New Year’s Day used to throw out all of their old items.

Bali, Indonesia

There are around seven million Catholics in Indonesia, when Christianity was brought here by Portuguese missionaries.

During Easter weekend, statues from this time are carried through the streets across the country.

Young men consider it an honour to be chosen to play Jesus and be tied to the cross as a vigil to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This tradition takes place in various locations across Indonesia, but you can watch it in Bali.

Prague, Czech Republic

On Easter Monday in Prague, there’s a tradition in which men spank women with handmade whips made of willow and decorated with ribbons.

According to legend, the willow is the first tree to bloom in the spring, so the branches are supposed to transfer the tree’s vitality and fertility to the women.

This is meant to be playful spanking all in good fun and not to cause pain.

Florence, Italy

A huge, decorated wagon is dragged through the streets of Florence by white oxen until it reaches the cathedral.

When Gloria is sung inside the cathedral, the Archbishop sends a dove-shaped rocket into the cart, igniting a large fireworks display.

This tradition is called Scoppio del Carro (explosion of the cart), and is followed by a parade in medieval costumes.

Bermuda, Caribbean

On Good Friday in Bermuda, the Bermudians celebrate by flying homemade kites, eating codfish cakes and hot cross buns.

The kite flying tradition is said to have begun when a local teacher from the British Army had difficulty explaining Christ’s ascension to Heaven to his Sunday school class.

He made a kite, traditionally shaped like a cross, to illustrate the Ascension.

Sofia, Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, people don’t hide their eggs – they have egg fights – and whoever comes out of the game with an unbroken egg is the winner!

They are also assumed to be the most successful member of the family in the coming year.

In another tradition, the oldest woman in the family rubs the faces of the children with the first red egg she has colored, symbolizing her wish that they have rosy cheeks, health and strength.

Nuremberg, Germany

Whilst in many countries Easter eggs are hidden and children hunt for them, in Germany Easter eggs are used as decorations and displayed on trees and prominently in streets.

Some of the trees have thousands of multi color eggs hanging on them.

The Nuremberg’s Easter Market is one of the largest Easter markets in the country, and has nearly 100 booths.

Washington D.C., United States

In the United States, the President hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn on Easter Monday.

The tradition, believed to date back to the early 19th century, involves children rolling a colored hard-boiled egg with a large serving spoon.

See more things to do in Washington DC.

Sydney, Australia

All around Australia kids get excited about Easter because of Easter egg hunts, participating in their schools Easter bonnet parade, getting a chocolate Easter Bilby (an Australian alternative to chocolate bunnies) or to attend the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

This 12-day event began in 1813, and is the largest annual ticketed event in the country, with more than 828,000 attendees on average.

It’s not so much a celebration of Easter, but of Australian culture, and ticket money goes towards agricultural programs, education, and youth.

In 2025, the Sydney Royal Easter Show will welcome a royal visit from King Charles III. Here are some of our favorite things to do in Sydney.

Malta

In Malta, Easter is celebrated with processions where the locals carry their statues of Jesus and Mary through the streets.

This is also a time of togetherness and family, and many of the locals attend church services at this time.

They also eat a species Easter delicacy called figolli, which is a sweet almond-filled pastry shaped like either a fish, rabbit, and or the Holy cross, which they exchange with friends and family.

Antigua, Guatemala

In Antigua in Guatemala, Easter is celebrated with one of the most colorful festivities in the world.

Semana Santa, also known as Holy Week, is a week-long festival in which the cobbled streets of Antigua are decorated in a carpet made of flowers, sawdust and religious objects.

It’s a deeply cherished tradition in Guatemala, and is filled with elaborate processions that commemorates the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Vatican City, Rome

The Vatican City is an iconic place to visit for Easter weekend as its where the Pope will give his Easter address from the Via Crucis, or Stations of the Cross, in Rome near the Colosseum on Good Friday.

As well as the address from the Pope, a huge cross with burning torches is set alight, which is then blessed by the Pope.

The Pope then gives an Easter mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica.

La Pasquetta, known as the Monday after Easter Sunday, is also a public holiday. Here is a 3 day itinerary of Rome.

Final Thoughts

We hope this guide gave you some inspiration for where to celebrate Easter around the world this year.

As for us, we know as long as there’s a place where the Easter Bunny can hide some chocolate eggs for an egg hunt in the back garden, then we’re on to a winner!

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