PORTUGAL: Largest Easter egg sets world Guinness record

Record ID: 750265

  • Title: PORTUGAL: Largest Easter egg sets world Guinness record
  • Date: 22nd March 2008
  • Summary: (L!3) ALCOCHETE, PORTUGAL (MARCH 20, 2008) (REUTERS ACCESS-ALL) ZOOM OUT FROM EASTER EGG FATHER AND BABY PLAYING NEXT TO EASTER EGG TILT DOWN FROM EASTER EGG TO FATHER WITH BABY (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) FREEPORT DIRECTOR NUNO OLIVEIRA SAYING: "We have received a certificate from Guiness indicating that we have the biggest decorated Easter egg in the world. The previous record holder was 8 metres high and was in Austria and we beat that by large measure. We have an egg with 14.91 metres. " GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS CERTIFICATE GENERAL VIEW OF EASTER EGG EASTER EGGS PAINTED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN CLOSE UP OF EASTER EGG PAINTED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN ZOOM OUT FROM EASTER EGG PAINTED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN TO CHILDREN PLAYING EASTER EGGS PAINTED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN ON OUTLET STREET TILT DOWN OF EASTER EGG PAINTED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN PEOPLE PASSING BY EASTER EGGS EASTER EGG
  • Embargoed: 6th April 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Portugal
  • Country: Portugal
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVAETTWSBGZUS0JXZ9VH6WUHIYFN
  • Story Text: A giant decorated Easter egg on display at a Portuguese outlet shopping center recieves Guinness record certificate as the largest in the world.
    A 14.91 metre-high egg on display at a shopping outlet near Lisbon has set a Guinnes record as the world's largest Easter egg.

    "We have received a certificate from Guiness indicating that we have the biggest decorated Easter egg in the world," the outlet's director Nuno Oliveira who was responsible of the construction told Reuters.
    The egg is made of plastic and it took six weeks for workers hired by the outlet center to build it. Hundreds of smaller eggs decorated by children from nearby schools, are also on display at the same site, fifty kilometres south of Lisbon.
    The previous record holder was an 8.3 metre-high egg from Austria.
    The egg will be on display until March 31.
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