Lithuania

Lithuania keeps sutartines polyphony, cross-crafting and carnival traditions.

Music & dance Spirituality & rites Crafts Food & cooking

Knowledge in this place

Sutartines polyphonic songs

Sutartines polyphonic songs

Interlocking multipart singing, inscribed on the UNESCO list.

Cross-crafting

Cross-crafting

The carving and raising of wooden votive crosses, inscribed on the UNESCO list.

Spirituality & rites

Uzgavenes Shrovetide

Uzgavenes Shrovetide

A masked winter-chasing carnival with wooden masks and an effigy burning.

Spirituality & rites

Vilnius verba bouquets

Vilnius verba bouquets

Dried-flower Palm Sunday bouquets bound in dense colourful columns.

Saltibarsciai cold borscht

Saltibarsciai cold borscht

A bright pink chilled beet-and-kefir soup eaten in summer.