Christmas traditions in Slovakia

In Slovakia, Christmas celebrations begin with AdventMerry Christmas is “Veselé Vianoce“ in Slovak languageWe also celebrate „Saint Nicholas“ (Mikuláš) on the 6th of December.

Christmas Carp

Potato salad

Christmas cabbage soup

A lot of people eat christmas cabbage, but there arealso families who eat mushroom soup on Christmas

It‘s usual to bake gingerbread every Christmas.Gingerbread is a kind of a sweet pie or a cookie.

It‘s made of flour, honey, sugar, eggs. You can also add nuts or cinnamon for better taste.

Each gingerbread gets decorated.

Gingerbread

Christmas Wafers

On every Christmas dinner, we eat Christmas wafers with honey and a tiny piece of garlic.

It‘s a tradition in every family.

Traditions• After the dinner, we cut an apple in half

and if the core is pretty (Looking like a star), that means you are going to be healthy the whole year.

• A candle is lit up, it‘s a symbol of Christmas

• We throw nuts into corners so we will have food for the whole next year.

Christmas presents

Every Christmas, we give our friends and family presents.

It‘s because we need to show them that we depend on them and also, we thank them this

way for the whole year.

Nobody should be alone on Christmas.

Christmas Carols

We also sing christmas carols, to make the effect of Christmas even more effecting!

The most popular ones are Tichá noc (Silent night) and Poďme bratia do Betlema (Come

my brothers to Betlehem).

BetlehemPeople are used to

prepare Betlehems in the churches.

They are often made from wood.

The biggest Betlehem in Slovakia is in Rajecká Lesná

Thank you for

your attention!

Mirka Gyetvenová, VIII.A