Celebrations

The Lord delights in watching Bolivians trying to outdance one another to please the Gran Poder

Special Romanian Easter rites include painted egg tapping, night vigils, and perfume attacks to bring girls good luck

Orthodox Easter or "Velikden" is one of the largest and most important holidays in Bulgaria

Feel the beauty of traditional ceremonies and taste delicious foods

Numerous processions, Passion plays, and the Way of the Cross—religious traditions make it the most spectacular week

Exhilarating and scary at the same time, processions of hooded penitents are held all across the island

Holy week is a great chance to observe the Dominican Republic at its best

No matter where you go for Santa Pasqua in Sicily, you'll find a totally unique experience

The "penitents" in pointed hoods, barefoot "Nazarenes", and religious statues take over the streets for a week of solemn processions

The holy week in Colombia is celebrated with colorful religious performances and ceremonies

The miracle that is believed to occur on Orthodox Easter Saturday for centuries

The event to celebrate the home-coming of Bishop Paolino in 431

A religious holiday marked by processions and family gatherings

Discover Las Palmas de Gran Canaria full of passion, sorrow, and devotion

The most important holiday in Spain when every city holds amazing and emotional celebrations

Feel the spirituality of Crete during the biggest religious holiday in the country

There is no better place to experience Holy Week than the Holy Land, where it all occurred

Venezuela's tropical Holy Week celebrations will add spirituality to your vacation

Rolling drums, trumpets, and hundreds of religious worshippers in bright and colorful dress is the hallmark of Easter in Madrid

From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday: pray, love, and have fun!

Take to the streets to see elaborate and dramatic processions and honour the most important week in the Christian calendar

Local festivities often blend Spanish Christian traditions with native Indian celebrations

Watch a small sleepy seaside town of Saintes Maries de la Mer turns into a noisy and wild carnival with Gypsy dancing and music

This ancient religious ritual survived till today and represents the most famous festival in Cusco

Valencia's close relationship with the sea has contributed to the unique celebration of the Holy Week

Easter festivities are not complete without colorful carpets covering the main streets of Comayagua and Tegucigalpa

Cypriot Easter is all about colorful eggs, candle processions, and huge bonfires

One of the largest annual holidays for the Catholic Church

Visit the city during the week of spectacular religious processions and delicious Easter treats

A busy week packed with more than 30 emotional street processions

Joining this colorful parade is a great way to get to know Spanish traditions and customs

Christians all over India celebrate Easter loudly and authentically

A massive religious shrine built by a priest contains thousands of rare stones and minerals and is considered the largest humanmade grotto in the world

Dramatic hooded robes, the smell of wax in the air, and the overall sense of deep mourning ensure a mysterious​ atmosphere

For New Orleanians, Easter is a special time with more parades!

A major holiday in Nepal is celebrated with interesting rituals to observe

Easter in Florence is memorable for splendid fireworks display

Join colorful pointed hoods processions carrying the Holy Statues through Ibiza Town

Deemed world's greatest Easter Week Festival, local celebrations amaze with fervent and colorful ceremonies

Holy Week has its traditions so special to Seville

Beautiful religious ceremonies and colorful processions make this time special

The week before Easter is of a huge importance and has plenty of interesting traditions to observe in Costa Rica

The most colourful Easter procession in Brazil paves its way along the four-kilometre flower carpet in Ouro Preto

Enjoy the fireworks from one of the many gondolas in St. Mark's Basin

December marks the peak of colorful religious celebrations held monthly in Andacollo

A colourful religious ceremony honouring the Hindu God of War with offerings and piercings

To mark the feast, Toronto hosts a huge Passion Play, the world's largest Easter parade, and countless egg hunts

Colorful religious processions are the main highlight of the Holy Week in Tuscany

May the blessings of Sri Ganesha be upon you all! Immerse yourself into one of the most widely celebrated festivals in India

The celebration of San Sebastiano in Sicily can easily top every patron saint festival in the whole Italy

Discover unique Easter traditions of Cusco, Ayacucho, and Arequipa

Join locals in one of Ecuador's biggest holidays

The celebration of the Catania ma​​rtyr is one of the central events in this region of Sicily

The religious festival that will amaze you

One of the biggest events that are​ socially important for Nepalese, features a huge decorated chariot moved around the city of Patan

Have you ever seen gold in the air?

Towns of Paucartambo and Pisac near Cusco are home to a festival dedicated to Virgen del Carmen, a ceremony well worth attending

Immerse yourself in one of the biggest religious gatherings ever

Colourful religious processions of priests and Chilean cowboys mesmerise street-walkers on their way to the sick

Empathize with the locals over the darkest pages in the world's history

One of the holiest days for Buddhists, celebrates the day when 1250 disciples of Buddha gathered for his preaching. The holiday includes one of the most spectacular ceremonies in Buddhism

India's first sea bridge, second longest in the country

A traditional feast day in the lovely little town of Fréjus

St Andrea, a patron and protector of Amalfi, is widely celebrated twice a year

It is a colorful ceremony parading through the streets of Cusco, celebrating both Catholic and Inca tradition

A little medieval town of Guardia Sanframondi situated about 60 km from Naples, hosts the mystical medieval event every seven years

When the question is where to travel for Easter, the cradle of Christianity is certainly a top destination!

A mixture of pagan and Christian traditions, Lomisoba is a colorful insight into Georgian culture

Hindu devotees dance with heavy and prickly kavadis decorated with flowers and peacock feathers and pour life-giving milk to honour Murugan

Calm your mind and practice wholesome meditation in a Lao Buddhist temple

This feast showcases Italian culture in America's melting pot

A vibrant religious festivity dedicated to the patron of the city of Valencia

The pilgrimage to the most famous place of Marian apparitions

A small village of 1000 residents comes to life with a million of flamboyant pilgrims and their frantic celebration of the Virgin of el Rocío

This festival represents a special religious tradition of carrying decorated crosses up the hill

The colourful pageant unites the city through its history and beliefs

Delve into regional peculiarities of Easter celebration in Indonesia

This 300-kilometre pilgrimage festival lasts nine days and is famous for free food and fun activities

A remarkable mixture of pagan and Christian traditions turns into sombre but festive celebration of skull in the city of La Paz

See for yourself a miraculous statue of baby Jesus brought by Magellan

Watch dancing demons, try eel espinagades, and have your dog blessed in Mallorca on the Sant Antoni celebrations

Enormous characters set afire to guide ancestors to the other world

"Three-step, one bow", Dana acts, candlelit procession and other rituals are performed to worship Buddha

The people in Provence are very protective of their traditions and this annual event is a good examp​le​

Celebrated to pay respect to the Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha in Kandy

Join hundreds of Hindus at the mass pilgrimage during the Maha Shivaratri celebration

A colourful horse pilgrimage is the highlight of Easter Monday in Bavaria

Each dance, performed at this festival, is an old story that combines costumes, masks, and sacred knowledge

In the Myanmar Buddhist tradition boys under the age of twenty have to enter the Buddhist Order

This feast celebrated on the last Sunday before Easter is especially important for the Kraków residents

One of the most significant events in Christianity opens the Holy Week with a palm walk

On the eve of the Virgin Mary’s Nativity Florentine streets and balconies are overwhelmed with the lanterns’ light

A pilgrimage visited every year by thousands of believers

The destination for followers of different religions, Adam's Peak or Sri Pada is surrounded by legends

Join the massive procession and colorful celebration to remember the dead

An ancient and unique Dance of the Death

A 22-hour procession is believed to heal and give miraculous powers

Witness the most extraordinary and spiritual celebration that includes fasting and body piercing

Scary rituals of self-flagellation are part of the annual mourning for the Prophet Muhammad's grandson

Amazing works of art made from flowers and other greenery decorate the towns around the Canary Islands for only a few days each year. Don't miss a chance to see them

Once a year, streets flood out with drummers playing congo for an unusual celebration

A creative tradition to celebrate the patron of the village of Cucuron

The full moon celebration is one of the most significant holidays for the Balinese Hindus

A Spanish festival of fire and horses dedicated to St. Anthony

Take part in numerous colorful processions honoring the saint

Las Turbas is the most popular traditional procession taking place during the Holy Week in Cuenca

Tens of thousands of Roma people annually gather in Costești to celebrate the Birth of Virgin Mary

Saint George is the second most important saint for Cariocas and his holiday is celebrated with a lot of excitement

Visit the birthplace of Lord Krishna and discover this ancient Hindu festival

Immerse yourself in Maha Shivaratri—discover overall definition of the Hindu galaxy and honor Lord Shiva with the believers

This ceremony helps people to bind one's inner spirits to the body for good health and luck

Easter religious procession with candles and music

Don't miss a chance to get a closer look at the religious traditions of India

The most award-winning festival of the Philippines

Among the "saint days" in the Maltese church calendar, the Feast of Saint Paul is one of only a handful that has the status of a national holiday

The town of Romont is home to an unusual Easter tradition

The day that marks three most important events in Buddha's life with beautiful ceremonies

The Hindu festival of light popular in South India

This is one of the biggest carnivals in Peru, which combines both Christian and prehispanic rituals

Rio has its holiday not on the day of foundation, but on the day of the patron—St. Sebastian

This is a period marked by Buddhist Lent, which lasts three months and makes the monks stay at a single monastery

To worship the Water Goddess, people of Do Son district organize the buffalo fighting festival

This bright festival is unique to the Tashi Lhunpo monastery and attracts thousands of pilgrims and visitors

A massive yoghurt festival that involves religious and cultural celebrations and attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators

One of the most notorious festivals in the world, the pig-chopping festival in Nem Thuong raises both approval and criticism (note: violent content)

The period lasting for a month when monks are offered various goods is also known as Thod Kathin or Kathina

One of the celebrations that light up the gloomy winter season

A massive religious celebration and candle-lit procession in Ponce

Pay tribute to the Venetians who died during the great plague of 1630

Witness the impressive and passionate pilgrimage happening annually at San Lazaro Church in the town of Rincón

A series of traditional marches take place in the small towns of Wallonia

The unique performance held during the feast of San Sebastián in Diriamba

At this time, Tibetans honor Sakyamuni, visit temples and monasteries and bring donations to monks

About a million local and international visitors flock to the city of Puri to witness this amazing Hindu festival

A man dressed as a devil jumps over the babies to cleanse them of the original sin

The celebration of women that marks the beginning of monsoon season

Imagine yourself among hundreds of Buddhist monks, carrying bowls of lotus flowers in a holy procession around the city. This is how Buddha’s Birthday is celebrated in Cambodia

Celebrate St John’s day and summer solstice in Monte-Carlo

Locals honour Saint Stanislaw who is believed to have raised the dead!

Stabbing and not bleeding ritual of protecting the island from the bad spirits

Join the colorfully dressed Cavalcade of the Three Wise Men to greet the newly-born Messiah

One of the oldest religious processions in Belgium

The day that starts with a prayer ends with a fierce battle of the rice cakes

A symbolic and spectacular ending to the Christmas holidays

The last day of the New Year's celebrations features one of the most colourful festivals

A beautiful ceremony to honor a 19-year-old Corsican woman—the patron saint of Monaco

Epiphany is a great holiday in Barcelona celebrated by La Cabalgata de Reyes Magos

Honour the most well-known samurai heroes from the Edo period

One of the wildest festivals in Catalonia

Twice a year, the Holy Land of Jordan opens its numerous sacred sites to the pilgrims from all over the world

Being there and watching the performance is an excellent way to dive into the traditional religious atmosphere of Tibet

This festival is a tradition which Peruvians believe to be a way of Christ protecting them from earthquakes