In Spain on Easter kids receive La Mona de Pascua, it is a chocolate figure decorated with feathers and chicks. Those chocolate works of art range from simple chocolate eggs to elaborated chocolate scenes from Disney movies and Barca football players. The price of such chocolate gift also varies a lot, from 10 Euros for a simple egg up to 100 Euros for a nice house with couple of chocolate figures around it.

Apart from La Mona de Pascua the Easter sweet bread and Bunyelos de viento (air bunyelos) are sold. The Easter bread reminds me of Russian sweet bread (сдобные булочки) and there is a boiled egg placed in the center of it. Sometimes the eggs are decorated with a sticker. And yes, lots of colored feathers and Easter chicks accompany the bread.

Today all the children in Spain commenced their Easter vacations, the vacations always start the week before Easter. We strolled with our children through the city and looked at the Easter decorations of the cafes and at Monas de Pascua. We got an Easter bread at Crusto and it was really good. Here are some images of Barcelona’s cafes decorated for Easter.

Crusto, Carrer Muntaner 363, Barcelona

Easter Bread at Crusto, Carrer Muntaner 363, Barcelona

Easter bread with two chocolate eggs (instead of boiled eggs) at Crusto, Carrer Muntaner 363, Barcelona


Easter chocolate eggs at La Criolla, Carrer Muntaner 423, Barcelona

La Criolla, Carrer Muntaner 423, Barcelona

Chocolate figures at La Criolla, Carrer Muntaner 423, Barcelona

Monas de Pascua in a pastisseria at the cross of Carrer Muntaner and Ronda General Mitre, Barcelona

Monas de Pascua in a pastisseria at the cross of Carrer Muntaner and Ronda General Mitre, Barcelona

Monas de Pascua in BoPan, Carrer Muntaner 536, Barcelona

BoPan, Carrer Muntaner 536, Barcelona

Monas de Pascua at Canal, Carrer Muntaner 566, Barcelona

Monas de Pascua at Canal, Carrer Muntaner 566, Barcelona
Monas de Pascua at pastisseria Serra 9, Plaza Joaquim Folguera, Barcelona