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sightseeings are available as a separate unit or may be combined with others for
a special price offer.
 What
is Shrove Tuesday?
Shrove
Tuesday celebration was particularly popular in Zemaitija. In some
Zemaitian villages these traditions have survived to the present
day. The traditional figures in the carnival are the loan Kanapinis
(the Hemp Man), Lasininis (the Fatty), a "Jew" offering his
goods in broken Lithuanian, a "Gypsy" looking for
something to pilfer, and a great number of other funny, caricature
masks. Men disguise themselves as women, and vice versa.
The old maid More - a female symbol of the clash between winter and
spring - is trundled about in a cart. In one hand she usually holds
a flail and in the other a broom, for she cannot make up her mind
whether she should continues flailing last year's harvest or start
sweeping the yard and do the spring-cleaning. Shrove Tuesday
celebrations are full of humour, jokes, superstitions and fortune
telling. It is a popular.
People do not do any hard work on Shrove Tuesday. They go on swings
and merry-go-rounds, visit friends, enjoy sledding down the slopes
while others try to pour water on them. All this is done to make
"flax grow tall", to ensure hens lay more eggs, birds do
no damage to the corn, and so on and so forth.
The
price for a group of 3-5 people – 115
EURO
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