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Traditional Easter ‘Mones de Pasqua’ at home during home confinement
Bakeries expect sales of seasonal cakes to fall by half, but around 200 offer home delivery
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Easter in Catalonia: processions, desserts and traffic jams!
'Setmana Santa' -or Holy Week- is one of the country's busiest holiday periods, with processions, cakes, and half a million vehicles on the roads
Culture
Catalonia celebrates a bumper Easter
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The ‘Mona’, the everlasting Easter sweet tradition
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700,000 artisanal Easter cakes expected to be sold this year
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“Mona de Pasqua”, the Catalan Easter cake topped with chocolate figurines
Catalan tradition dictates godfathers to offer a “Mona de Pasqua” to their godsons or goddaughters for Easter Monday. The cake goes with a chocolate sculpture or figurine, which in some cases are true masterpieces. Chocolate houses, chocolate trains or popular cartoons made out of chocolate are some of the creations that top the cake. Catalan patissiers expect to sell 660,000 “mones” this year, although smaller ones due to the economic slowdown.