European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The rites of Spring european style ornamental Glaza Agga symbolize tha season. By Marian Hamilton staff writer no matter what your taste Europe has an easter festival for you. They Range from Gaudy tourist attractions to generic celebrations of Spring to solemn rites marking one of the Christian world s major religious holidays. In the Othberg Germany last weekend Wood smoke mingled with barnyard smells. Housewives sold jams and jellies. Marzipan easter bunnies sat Cheek by jowl with pictures of Christ. Youngsters careened through the crowds on stilts roller skates and even ponies adding to the special ambiance of the easter festivities. It was a typical easter test and the streets of the tiny Village Southeast of Frankfurt were crowded with Booths crammed with the interesting and the mundane everything from traditional handicrafts to last week s ninja turtles comic books. Not All the Booths were geared to turning a profit. In some artisans demonstrated How modern Glass designs can be made with a Bunsen Burner and How yarn can be spun using nothing More than foot Power. Regional food and drink As Well As just a place to sit were available for the hungry thirsty or just Plain weary. The local museum sponsored an easter egg Market and also recreated easter customs of the last two centuries. These festivals Are not limited to Germany. With the coming of Spring similar seasonal events pop up All Over Europe and Many continue after the Holiday. The common thread is the attempt to show How local people live and work. Italy celebrates with parades passion plays folklore events and festivals Sicily has some especially interesting events including an easter egg ceremony in which women in 15th-Century costumes give decorated eggs to the Public and a Quot dance of the devils Quot symbolizing the fight Between Good and evil. Nas Simonella has an easter egg flashlight Hunt. Unusual events in Germany include an International easter jazz festival in Stuttgart and a motorized easter egg Hunt in Wesel. Spain hosts holy week celebrations in almost All major cities and a Post easter festival of decorated eggs in Asturias province. Other events in Europe include London s easter Parade with Cockney costumes bedecked with pearls rhinestones and buttons International easter festivals in Lucerne Switzerland Biarritz France and in Munich Augsburg and Darmstadt Germany. There Are even easter horse races in Copenhagen Denmark tha Othberg museum featured easter Agga past and Prasant above Willa a Glaza Browar Laft Howad How Glaza Mamanta can a Mada using a Bunyan Burner. Cristina Bandal decorates easter Agga hungarian style. Rosemarie Vetter demonstrates the old fashioned Craft of spinning to festival visitors. The sock la for Comfort rather than style. \ or Idt a amps photos by Ken George it easter pest s Here Are some of the Spring and easier less scheduled around Europe Austria easter Market fre Yung Vienna through april 19 Belgium easier egg Hunt Park Beloeil april 19-20 easter Parade Herve april 20 bands floats and fireworks. Denmark easter horse races Klampe Horg Galop Bane Copenhagen april 16 France easter festival Biarritz april 18-20 Germany International easter jazz festival theat Chaus Stuttgart april 16-20. Easter festival Munich april 16-20. City Tours easier Brunch concerts. Easter Volk fest Darmstadt april 18-20. Easter fair Augsburg april 18-May 3. Includes Volk fest. Spring festival Hannover april 18-May 10 motorized easter egg Hunt for old timers and youngsters Wesel april 20. Italy Maundy thursday Parade Cagliari april 16 easter parades Taranto april 16-17. Pre easter festival san Fratello Sicily april 16-17 includes parades with participants in devils costumes passion play Gino a Taranto province april 16-18 Good Friday parades Marsala Sicily Alt Asselta Sicil Bevagna Calitri Chieti Civitavecchi rom Subbio la Aquila Mirabella Erclano Sessa a Runca Sorrento Naples and Vercelli april 17. Easter egg flashlight Hunt youth teen Confer Simonella Nas april 17. Passion play Gela Sicily april 18. Easter Parade Aci Reale Sicily april 18 traditional costumes. Holy week Calt Massetta through april 18 parades passion play concert. Easter parades Dormio and Lanciano april 19 easter egg ceremony Piana Degli Albanesi Palermo april 19. Women in 15th-Century costumes give eggs to Public explosion of the cart Piazza Del Duomo Florence april 19. Cart of fireworks exploded to represent holy no dance of the devils prizzi Palermo april 19 easter enactment. Spain Maundy thursday Parade verges Gerona province. April 16. Festival of decorated eggs Pola de Siero Asturias province april 21. Switzerland Good Friday parades mend Risio april 16-17 International easter festival Lucerne. April 16-20 easter egg Hunt Gramentz april 19 United kingdom easter egg Hunt Leeds Castle Maidstone Kent. England april 18-20 easter Parade Battersea Park London. April 19 floats bands clowns majorettes Pearly Kings and Queens Page 14 a the stars and stripes wednesday april 15, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 15