Traditional Easter horse ride held in Czechia's Lukavec

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  • Title: Traditional Easter horse ride held in Czechia's Lukavec
  • Date: 20th April 2025
  • Summary: Traditional Easter horse ride held in Czechia's Lukavec SHOTLIST: LUKAVEC, CZECHIA (APRIL 20, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE TYING RIBBONS TO HORSES’ MANES, TAILS 2. PEOPLE PREPARING HORSES (TWO SHOTS) 3. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SINGING WHILE RIDING HORSES / EXTERIOR SHOT OF CHURCH /PEOPLE RIDING HORSES 4. MUSICIANS PLAYIG INSTRUMENTS 5. VARIOUS OF MAN ON HORSE HOLDING CROSS / PEOPLE KISSING, TOUCHING CROSS WHICH IS HOLD BY MAN HORSE / PEOPLE RIDING HORSES / PEOPLE SINGING WHILE RIDING HORSES SCRIPT Fifteen people in black suits ride their decorated horses on Sunday (April 20), as part of a festival held on the occasion of Easter, in Lukavec in Moravian-Silensian region, Czechia. Václav David, seventy-five years old, is unlikely to take the saddle for the first time in 58 years. He is the one who has kept the tradition alive for the last decades. Thanks to him, it has survived the coronavirus pandemic and the associated government measures. Václav David said he is recovering from heart surgery and may not ride again this year. One of the most important German customs in Fulneck (eastern in Czech Republic) is the Easter ceremonial horse rides around the grain (in German Osterreiten, also Kreuzreiten), which is still maintained in Lukavec near Fulnek. This ancient Christian custom from the 17th century is preserved only in Lukavec in the Czech Republic. The Ride Around the Aspen, as the Ride Around the Aspen is also called, starts regularly at 1:00 pm on the Sunday before Easter Monday at the church in Lukavec. The rider at the head of the procession carries a cross with which he blesses families, buildings or fields and future crops. Along the way, the metal cross is venerated by the locals, who in return offer the riders alcohol to warm them up. The riders sing a 15th-century song, Risen from the Dead. On returning to Lukavec, the song Hallelujah, Hail Our Dear Saviour is sung and played.
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