LA MONA DE PASQUA or the Catalan Easter Cake - 2018

            Feliç Pasqua!         Happy Easter!              Feliz Pascua

Moltes gràcies per la seva afectuosa valuosa visita. Tingueu un bon i fantàstic dia!
Muchas gracias por su amable visita. 
Con el deseo de que tenga un y plácido día 

ENGLISH
In Catalonia the Mona's Day can be on Sunday or Monday and since my Mother used to it on Monday that is why this "mona" has been eaten at my daughter's home today.It can be said that the tradition of chocolate's "mona" has made that many of the best chocolate sculptor in the world are Catalans.##Barcelona (ACN).- According to Catalan tradition, the Easter Bunny skips Catalonia. However, kids do not skip chocolate for Easter. In Catalonia, children get chocolate figurines that top a special cake: the “Mona de Pasqua”. This sweet gift is traditionally offered by godfathers on Easter Monday, although nowadays the day depends more on convenience than on tradition. This year, the Patissier Gild of Catalonia expects to sell a similar amount of “mones” (the plural of “mona”) than previous years. In total, they expect to sell some 660,000 “mones”, according to Joan Turull, the Gild’s Chairman. However, cakes and figurines may be smaller because of the current economic climate, explains Turull, a trend that started two years ago when the economic crisis began to bite. The chocolate sculpture that tops the special cake can take very different shapes and sizes. They range from small chocolate eggs to one-metre-high castles made entirely out of chocolate. In addition, traditional figurines such as houses and animals are joined by Barça players or cartoons, such as Hello Kitty, Doraemon or Rapunzel.

CATALÀ
Segons el Costumari Català de Joan Amades, la mona ja és citada amb aquest nom en el segle XV,[2] tot i que al diccionari Gazophylacivum Catalano-Latinum, de Joan Lacavalleria, publicat a Barcelona l'any 1696, "mona" té encara només una definició purament zoològica. Però el Diccionari de la llengua castellana, de la Reial Acadèmia Espanyola de la Llengua, ofereix ja en la seva edició de l'any 1783 la següent definició: "Catalunya, València i Múrcia. La coca o rosca que es cou al forn amb ous posats en ella amb closca per Pasqua de Flors, que en altres parts de la península Ibèrica anomenen hornazo".
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Taken in: Spain / Catalonia / Barcelona / la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample (show map)

Taken on: March 29, 2018

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