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Matteo Argilla
It comes from the Greek: pascha, in turn by the Pasah aramaic, and properly means "to go further", then "passage". The Jews remembered the passage through the Red Sea from the slavery of Egypt to liberation. For Christians, it is the feast of the passage from death to the life of Jesus Christ. Easter  is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrectionof Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.  In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the fiftieth day, Pentecost Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the season of Pascha begins on Pascha and ends with the coming of the fortieth day, the Feast of the Ascension. Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts which do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars which follow only the cycle of the sun; rather, its date is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew Calendar. The First Councilof Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April while in Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian Calendar. Because of the 13-day difference between the calendars between 1900 and 2099, 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian Calendar. Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May on the Gregorian calendar.

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D'Amore Matteo

For Christians, the Easter egg is a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Painting Easter eggs is an especially beloved tradition in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches where the eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the cross. Easter eggs are blessed by the priest at the end of the Paschal vigil and distributed to the congregants. Painting easter egg tradition is very common in Europe, especially in the North Europe and in the slavic countries.

The Easter egg trees are a very common decorations in Great Britain. People usually put branches in a vase hung with decorated eggs for doing the Easter trees. Today many homes hang the painted or dyed Easter eggs and other decorations on real trees in their yards (if they have them) to add a colorful touch and a festive spirit to the whole neighborhood.

An Easter basket is a special basket, painted, decorated and used in Easter celebrations or egg hunts for eggs and candies.

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Tonelli Manuel
EASTER EGG
The Easter egg is a traditional object, which in time has become one of the symbols of the same Christian festivity, along with the dove. In Christianity it symbolizes Jesus' resurrection from the tomb. The tradition of the classic chocolate egg is recent, but the gift of real eggs, decorated with any kind of design or dedication, is related to the Easter holiday since the Middle Ages.Eggs were distributed to family and friends as a gesture of affection and friendship. Even today, as in the past, the eggs are painted by hand and decorated and it is from this ancient tradition that the famous Fabergé porcelain eggs were born, with precious stones and golden inlays commissioned centuries ago by Russian czars.

EASTER BUNNY
Also the different Easter calla that are proudly displayed in shop windows also it appears a cute Bunny brings the eggs. Its presence is not accidental but refers to the gare since the early days of christianity it was taken as a symbol of christ. In addition the hare, with the characteristic of her clothing that changes color according to the season, was indicated by Sant'Ambrogio as a symbol of the ressurection.

THE CROSS
He symbolizes the man with open arms, in a relaxed  positions, but at the same time also the cosmic tree that sustains the world. Its structure evokes the division of Eden into four parts and the year in four seasons.

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Andrea Neri
Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter. It is the fifth day of Holy Week, and is preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday. Christians remember it as the day when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and established the ceremony known as the Eucharist. The word Maundy" comes from the French word, "Mande," meaning "command" or "mandate” and is taken from the command given by Christ at the Last Supper, "love one another as I have loved you.” In Britain, the Queen takes part in the Ceremony of the Royal Maundy. In the 17th century, and earlier, the King or Queen would wash the feet of the selected poor people as a gesture of humility, and in remembrance of Jesus's washing the feet of the disciples. Suffice to say that doesn't happen any more, in fact the last monarch to do this was James II.

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Mariusz Marturini
Good Friday is two days before Easter Sunday. It is always a day between the end of March and the end of April, but the exact date is different each year because it depends on the position of the moon. Both Good Friday and the following Monday (known as Easter Monday) are public holidays in the UK (known as "bank holidays": banks, offices, schools and many shops are closed). Many people use this four-day holiday as a chance to travel, so roads and airports are usually very busy. It is traditional for people to eat hot cross buns on this day. These are current buns which are marked with a white cross (representing the cross on which Jesus died). The buns are cut in two and toasted, and when they are ready butter is spread on top. These days it is increasingly common to eat the buns at room temperature (without toasting them). It is also traditional to eat fish instead of meat for the main meal of the day.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE BUTTERWORTH CHARITY
Another traditional event on Good Friday is the Distribution of the Butterworth Charity. It takes place outside the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, which is an Anglican church in a road called Cloth Fair in London's West Smithfield area. Another Good Friday tradition takes place in a pub in a part of East London known as Bow.

In the early part of the 19th century there used to be a cottage here where a widow lived with her only son. He went out to sea, promising his mother that he would return for Easter. So on Good Friday the mother baked a hot cross bun and waited for her son to arrive. He didn't come. At the same time the next year she made another bun, still hoping that he would come back. Every year a hot cross bun is baked specially and a member of the Royal Navy is invited here to place it in a net above the bar, where buns from previous years are kept.

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Davide Simonelli
Easter Monday is a holiday in England and one of the Major English tradition is the botte-kicking.
The bottle-kicking is an old Leicestershire custom that takes place in the village of Hallaton on Easter Monday.
The tradition claims that the custom began when two ladies of Hallaton were saved from a raging bull by a startled hare, distracting the bull from its charge. They showed their gratitude to God for sending the hare by donating money to the church on the understanding that every Easter Monday, the vicar would provide a hare pie, twelve penny loaves, and 2 barrels of beer for the poor of the village. The Hallaton villagers would fight each other for the food and drink, and on one occasion, the residents of the neighbouring village of Medbourne joined the fray and stole the beer. The Hallatonians cooperated to retrieve the spoils, thus beginning the village rivalry that continues to this day.
There are virtually no rules to the bottle-kicking, except that there is no eye-gouging, no strangling, and no use of weapons. In the early afternoon, the hare pie is spread on the ground at a dip at the top of Hare Pie Bank,which is possibly the site of an ancient temple. Each bottle is then tossed in the air three times, signaling the start of the competition.Each team tries to move the bottles, on a best-of-three basis, across two streams one mile by any means possible.

The contest is a rough one, with teams fighting to move the bottles over such obstacles as ditches, hedges, and barbed wire. Broken bones are not unheard-of, and emergency services are generally on standby.

After the game, participants and spectators return to the village. Those players who put in an especially good effort are helped up onto the top of the ten-foot-tall Buttercross, and the opened bottle is passed up for them to drink from before being passed around the crowd.

The festive day normally draws to a close with participants and spectators retiring to pub for drink and banter.

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Hallaton won the traditional Bottle Kicking match against neighbours Medbourne 2-0 on Easter Monday. The scores came after a dramatic 53 minute first "barrel" with a touchdown by Chris Arnold, and a more predictable 55-minute second, scored eventually by Zak Morton. Event chairman Phil Allan said: "Everything went to plan for Hallaton.

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Tacchetti Alessandro.
An egg hunt is a fun game during which decorated eggs or Easter eggs are hidden for children to find. Real hard-boiled eggs, which are typically dyed or painted, artificial eggs made of plastic filled with chocolate or candies, or egg-shaped chocolates of various sizes are hidden in various places. The game is often played outdoors, but it can also be played indoors. The children typically collect the eggs in a basket. When the hunt is over, prizes may be given out for various achievements, such as the largest number of eggs collected, for the largest or smallest egg, for the most eggs of a specific color, consolation prizes or booby prizes. Eggs are hidden in difficult ad various places, to help children of varying ages.

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Lombardi Lorenzo

And now, let's prepare our hot cross buns! The process is quite long, but the result is really incredible and these English sandwiches can become a perfect recipe for breakfast or a snack.

The recipe and preparation of hot cross buns is:

HOT CROSS BUNS: INGREDIENTS FOR AVERAGE 24 SANDWICHES.

60 ml of water at room temperature
120 ml of milk
4 tablespoons of melted butter
1 egg
500 grams of flour
4 tablespoons sugar
1 yeast dough
1 tablespoon cinnamon
means of nut spoon nutmeg
1 pinch of clove powder
half a tablespoon of salt
90 grams of raisins
40 grams of candied

PREPARATION (RECIPE):

1. Heat the milk and add the yeast, stir until this has dissolved and let stand for about 5 minutes;

2. Mix the milk with the yeast, sugar, salt, melted butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and eggs and when the first compound will become smooth gradually add the flour; once ready, letting the dough rest for 45 minutes covered with plastic wrap.

3. After this time, re-knead for about 5 minutes then add raisins and candied fruit. Give the dough in the shape of a ball and place it in a greased baking sheet, leaving to stand for about 24 hours so that all the moisture is absorbed.

4. He spent 24 hours to resume the dough quickly with your hands then divide it into many panettini great little less than a fist, and let them stand still for at least 1 hour and a half;

5. Once grown on the surface of a cross practice, sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake in a hot oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees then at 180 ° for another 15 minutes.

6. Once ready frosting sandwiches with royal icing which must be applied on the cross on the surface.

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Tonelli Gian Marco

Typical Easter meals of English tradition is Leg of lamb stew with various herbs, many seasonal vegetables such as peas and carrots, the inevitable potatoes and lots of mint sauce.
There are also lots of pies: these various cakes where a crispy crust enclosing a delicious filling that can be as salty as sweet.

You can eat also the traditional roasbeef, often cooked on the bone and then cut into thin slices. Served with gravy, this is really a refined and timeless dish!

At the end of lunch, Easter eggs are inevitable, strictly made of chocolate; in the past they exchanged and consumed boiled eggs, painted with different colors and various patterns. They have now been replaced, in fact, the most modern and tasty chocolate egg.

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Loi Tamara
Egg jarping is a traditional game played in Great Britain at Easter.
Egg harping is called also egg fight, egg tapping, egg knocking, egg pacqueing, egg boxing and egg picking.
This game is played between pairs of competitors who repeatedly knock the pointed ends of their eggs together until one of the eggs cracks; the final winner is the one who breaks the greatest number of other eggs.
In the past players tried to cheat using eggs made of cement, alabaster or marble.
I think that egg jarping is a nice easy game especially for children.

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Isacco Folegnani
A tipical Easter game in Great Britain is "egg-and-spoon race".In this game which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line.Competitors race either individually or in teams in the manner of a relay race.If the egg falls from the spoon then competitors may be required to stop, retrieve, and reposition their egg; or to start again;or may even be disqualified. Common methods of cheating include sticking the egg to the spoon, or holding onto the egg with one finger. For an extra challenge, contestants might carry the spoon with both hands, with their teeth, or have their hands tied behind their backs. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day.

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Tedeschi Silvia

Easter was once a traditional day for getting married, that may be why people often dress up for Easter. Women would make and wear special Easter Easbonnets.
An Easter bonnet is an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or especially in an Easter parade.There were so many different bonnets of different shapes and sizes but they were all fabulous. It represents the tail-end of a tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year and the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption.
People participating in an Easter parade traditionally dress in new and fashionable clothing, particularly ladies' hats, and strive to impress others with their finery.
Today in Battersea in London there is a special Easter Parade, where hand-made bonnets are shown off.

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Gabriele Giovannucci

Egg tossing, egg toss, or egg throwing is a game associated with Easter. The egg was a symbol of the rebirth of the earth in Pagan celebrations of spring and was adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the rebirth of man at Easter.

In one version of the game the idea is to toss an egg so it falls on the ground without breaking. This is possible on, for example, grassy meadows.

In medieval Britain there was an egg throwing festival held in the churches at Easter. The priest would give out one hard-boiled egg which was tossed around the nave of the church and the choirboy who was holding the egg when the clock struck twelve would get to keep it.

Egg tossing is also known as a team competition with basically the following rules, although the exact details may vary: one member of a two-person team tosses an egg to another; iIf the egg does not break, they step apart and the toss is repeated. The contest continues until one egg is left unbroken. (A popular variation uses water balloons.)

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Laura Ottolini

THE HOT CROSS BUNS:
The hot cross buns are traditional English Easter cakes that are prepared quickly and are nothing more than sweet rolls stuffed with raisins. The buns are little ones, square and feature a frosted cross that recalls the Jesus's crucifixion.       (Pic. no.1)

THE SIMNEL CAKE
The Simnel cake is a cake flavored with dried fruit and spicy from ginger, which is then covered and decorated with 11 balls of dough with almonds to symbolize all the apostles except Judas. (Pic. no. 2)

THE BUNNY CUPCAKES
The bunny cupcakes are small cupcakes of different colors decorated with bunnies funny faces. (Pic. no. 3)

THE CHEESECAKE
The double Easter cheesecake is a normal cheesecake covered with chocolate mousse and decorated with the chocolate eggs inside a cream cheese. (Pic. no. 4)

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Manuele Belbahloul
Egg rolling is a traditional Easter game often played on Easter Monday. Participants choose dyed, hard-boiled Easter eggs and place them along a starting line on top of a hill or slight incline. Contestants release their eggs and cheer them on as they roll downhill. In some versions of the game players push the egg along rather than simply let it roll. The earliest known Egg- rolling games took place in Paris in 1587. Danish folklorists have also documented the existence of the custom in their country as far back as the sixteenth century. The earliest record of the game in England dates back to 1694.   Egg- rolling customs can be found all across Europe. Egg-rolling contests often take place in northern Britain on Easter Monday.    Contestants choose what they hope to be prize-winning Easter eggs and line up at the top of a hill. Egg-rolling rules vary from event to event. In some places the winner is the person whose eggs roll the farthest distance. In others victory attaches itself to the person whose egg survives the most rolls intact. In the United States a well-known egg-rolling contest takes place each year on Easter Monday at the White House.This contest dates back to before the Civil War (1861-65). In those days the main event took place at the Capitol building, where an assortment of Washington's children launched their eggs down the terraced lawns of the building'swest front. While the public enjoyed itself at the Capitol building, the president's family sometimes hosted small egg-rolling parties on the White House lawn. The children of Presidents Abraham Lincoln  and Andrew Johnson were known to have enjoyed these parties.