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Traditions of Europe

Carnival, Midsummer, Christmas markets, Easter, the village fête and the long Sunday lunch. 714 traditions on EveryParampara so far.

Countries

🇦🇱 Albania 27 🇦🇩 Andorra 4 🇦🇹 Austria 50 🇧🇾 Belarus 30 🇧🇪 Belgium 40 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 49 🇭🇷 Croatia 33 🇨🇿 Czechia 20 🇩🇰 Denmark 26 🇪🇪 Estonia 18 🇫🇮 Finland 34 🇫🇷 France 91 🇩🇪 Germany 115 🇬🇷 Greece 69 🇭🇺 Hungary 22 🇮🇸 Iceland 20 🇮🇪 Ireland 77 🇮🇹 Italy 114 🇽🇰 Kosovo 20 🇱🇻 Latvia 18 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 2 🇱🇹 Lithuania 22 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 14 🇲🇹 Malta 15 🇲🇩 Moldova 11 🇲🇨 Monaco 1 🇲🇪 Montenegro 13 🇳🇱 Netherlands 29 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 26 🇳🇴 Norway 38 🇵🇱 Poland 70 🇵🇹 Portugal 27 🇷🇴 Romania 39 🇷🇺 Russia 102 🇸🇲 San Marino 1 🇷🇸 Serbia 44 🇸🇰 Slovakia 19 🇸🇮 Slovenia 25 🇪🇸 Spain 96 🇸🇪 Sweden 45 🇨🇭 Switzerland 34 🇺🇦 Ukraine 47 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 201 🇻🇦 Vatican City 3

Cities and towns

Rome 30 London 26 Moscow 18 Dublin 17 Vienna 16 Athens 14 Venice 14 Paris 13 Seville 12 Kraków 11 Riga 11 Valencia 11

On the calendar

Diwali Durga Puja Baisakhi Guru Nanak Gurpurab Rath Yatra of Puri Tihar and Bandi Chhor Divas Hidirellez Parsi New Year Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Simchat Torah

🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreChristmas Eve The evening before Christmas, marked by church services, family meals, and gift preparations across Christian cultures.Festival · Dinner

🇷🇸 Serbia and 5 moreSerbian ChristmasБожић A three-day midwinter observance focused on oak logs, floor straw and family gatheringsSpiritual · Dinner

🇵🇱 PolandWigilia Poland's meatless Christmas Eve supper, begun when the first star appearsTable custom · Feasts and festival meals 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland and 3 moreLittle ChristmasNollaig na mBan A January feast day marking the close of the twelve days of ChristmasSeasonal · Dinner

🇩🇪 Germany and 5 moreSaint Sylvester's Day A Christian feast day and year-end celebration marked across Europe and beyondSeasonal · Dinner

🇭🇷 CroatiaBadnjakBadnji dan A Christmas Eve oak log burned in the hearth across Croatia to welcome the holiday.Festival · Fasting and breaking the fast

🇷🇸 Serbia and 5 moreĐurđevdanЂурђевдан A spring festival and feast of Saint George kept across the Balkans and Eastern EuropeFestival · Feasts and festival meals

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Serbian Christmas: Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Wigilia: Przykuta, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Christmas Eve: Carl Larsson, Public domain, source
Saint Sylvester's Day: Unknown medieval artist in Rome, Public domain, source
Badnjak: Vidonjac, CC BY 2.0, source
Đurđevdan: Anonymous Russian icon painter (before 1917) Public domain image (acco, Public domain, source

The weekly EveryParampara

Every week: one tradition from somewhere new, what is being celebrated around the world this week, and one idea explained.