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Discounts for Barcelona
March 20, 2010 by drewloupsen · Leave a Comment
Typically persons join Easter in Spain through the religious processions in the streets although, what about the Easter eggs? Permit me to identify you about the Catalan description!
In Barcelona, the tradition states that Godparents carry out to provide an Easter egg to their godson or goddaughter. And in Catalonia we unwavering to manufacture this chocolate egg a tad further ‘exotic’-we christen it ‘LA MONA’!
Barcelona easter is really a fantastic time to be in the city. Come and enjoy it – why not even stay in an apartment and feel like a local during the holiday period. Oh-Barcelona.com offer a great range of apartments.
La mona is a cake with a shape complete of chocolate on top, routinely a fantastically vast shape with coloured feathers all around. As an example,, as I was a kid I got a giant football crafted from chocolate or a exceptionally big chicken with small eggs around it!
The most illustrious bakeries in Barcelona compete trying to do the biggest ‘mona’ of all and the most shocking one. Can you imagine a cake/mona that is essentially Shrek’s castle?
If you are going to be in the city then why not take advantage of barcelona easter offers from the Oh-Barcelona blog. There you can find all the info you need on what to do in Barcelona whether you are on holiday or living there. Especially great tips on festivals such as Easter!
The ‘monas’ have become so trendy that even on the nationwide TV news they talk about the leading and more unanticipated ones. I recollect last year how they talked about a mona that was 1 metre tall – it was the soccer player Eto’o!
Don’t permit this Easter pass by without trying one of the delicious ‘Monas’! However, in other areas of Spain they have other small cakes that may be found
