In , it falls on a Saturday, and some businesses may choose to follow Saturday opening hours. It's Christmas time in Warsaw, Poland. Railway stations are decorated with tinsel and Christmas trees. Christmas preparations begin days before December Houses and apartments are cleaned and adorned with decorations, including a Christmas tree.
Traditionally, Christmas trees are decorated with candles or lights, ornaments made of glass or eggshells, and wrapped treats on December At the beginning of December, shops and streets are starting to shine and Christmas Carols and songs fill every room.
Christmas Holidays start on the 24th of December. Once the first star is in the sky and all Christmas dishes are cooked, the family gathers around the table and the celebrations begin. There is a wide variety of Polish Christmas Eve traditions and they really depend on the region of Poland. The most common and popular of Christmas traditions are laid out below:. Sharing Christmas wafer — usually takes place before the main supper.
During this moment, family members wish all the best to each other. Serving twelve dishes referring to the twelve apostles — well, the truth is that Christmas is really about food and eating delicious dishes. In reference to the twelve apostles, there should be twelve dishes present at the Polish Christmas dinner table. What can you find there? Every dish should be at least tried as it brings good luck for the upcoming 12 months of the new year.
So prepare yourself for a massive feast and probably trying something you had never eaten before. Preparing an extra seat for the unexpected guest — in case a homeless person or a traveller from far, far away comes to your home during Christmas Eve, an extra seat and cutlery are prepared in case such a person comes, they can join the hosts and celebrate the holidays.
Sometimes you will find a free seat at the table. It is left for relatives or travelers. Poles believe that no one should be alone during the holiday. Therefore, they invite friends or neighbors who have no one to have dinner with. Among the traditional Christmas, dishes are Christmas Eve carp, Jewish-style carp, the herring, pierogi, and poppy seed cake.
Poland really loves its Christmas carols. And there are thousands of them. One even nearly became the national anthem. Sometimes on Christmas Eve both adults and children go to their neighbors and family. As a reward, they receive money or sweets. When midnight comes many Polish people are going to the Christmas mass. Pasterka is a midnight mass celebrated by Roman Catholics during Christmas between 24 and 25 December across Poland. Maybe only the custom of Christmas fortune-telling, which in the past was considered as determining the course of events for the entire coming year, has not survived.
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