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The Annual Easter Egg Display in Kiev Ukraine

The Ukrainian Pysanky Festival

Imagine a square packed with brightly painted giant Easter eggs? We were in Kiev this week and visited Sophia Square which is filled with these beautiful works of art from various artists from all over Ukraine for the annual Easter Egg Festival.

In fact there are over 500 eggs packed in the square all with different designs.

It is a Ukranian tradition to exchange these painted eggs or “pysanky” and apparently the Ukranians were decrorating their eggs in this elaborate fashion long before Christianity arrived in the country.

However, during the Orthodox Church’s Holy Week it has now become a tradition for Sophia Square to be transformed with hundreds of these beautiful fibreglass eggs.

As you admire the various designs which range from flowers, to biblical stories, to copies of famous paintings, animals and flowers, there is music to accompany your visit emanating from large speakers set out on the square.