Part of learning about Italy should always include trying the culinary delicacies- I recommend to my students to try the traditional foods like Colomba cake at Easter and certainly Panettone at Christmas alongside its lesser known sibling Pandoro.
Shh! Don't tell English children but Easter eggs in Italy are so much better- they are enormous and contain gifts inside. I remember my grandmother giving me one every Easter- such a lot of excitement unwrapping the large beautifully foil- wrapped egg and discovering the present inside. I don't mean Kinder egg style microscopic presents either. An Italian Easter egg is an English egg on steroids and it's the same with the present.
Here's a text I used with one of my Italian beginners to talk about Easter.
Of course, Easter isn't just about eating and Italy is a catholic country where religion still plays a dominant part in many Italians' lives. Here's a clip from Easter in the Vatican and it shows one of the Easter rituals on Holy Thursday. The washing of feet at Easter is a Christian ritual symbolising humility, service, and imitation of Jesus’ actions at the Last Supper
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