{"id":7811,"date":"2021-03-19T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2022-02-28T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T07:16:09","slug":"cultural-tradition-of-vilnius-verba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/news-cat\/cultural-tradition-of-vilnius-verba\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural tradition of Vilnius Verba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>Sunday of Easter Palms (in Lithuanian: \u2018<em>verbos<\/em>\u2019) is celebrated one week before Easter, one of the main Catholic holydays. As&nbsp;palms are absent in Lithuania, juniper branches are traditionally used as the symbolic substitute. Unique hand-made <em>verbos<\/em>&nbsp;appeared in early 19th c in Vilnius region.<\/p>\n<p>Vilnius\u2019 <em>verbos<\/em> are made of dried natural herbs and flowers, often colored, orderly tied around a wooden stick. Creation and making&nbsp;<em>verbos<\/em>&nbsp;is crafting skill and time demanding process. Tradition of <em>verbos<\/em> production was registered into the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Verbos<\/em> has become a cultural symbol of Vilnius. Their use spread through various cultural events and festivals also becoming an exclusive souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>Crafts&#8217; Gallery <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sauluva.lt\/index.php?page_id=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sauluva<\/a><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;(Pilies 36\/Literatu St.3) &#8211; member of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/index.php\/crafts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vilnius Traditional Crafts Program<\/a><\/span> \u2013 demonstrates physical processes of crafting <em>verbos<\/em> and traditional coloring of&nbsp; Easter eggs.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday of Easter Palms (in Lithuanian: \u2018verbos\u2019) is celebrated one week before Easter, one of the main Catholic holydays. As&nbsp;palms are absent in Lithuania, juniper branches are traditionally used as the symbolic substitute. Unique hand-made verbos&nbsp;appeared in early 19th c in Vilnius region. Vilnius\u2019 verbos are made of dried natural herbs and flowers, often colored,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-cat","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21523,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/21523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vsaa.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}