Easter Egg Sculpure Raised in the Croatian Town Koprivnica
Balkan Travellers
The sculpture was elevated on the occasion of the Catholic Easter which was celebrated last Sunday in Croatia, where nearly 90 per cent of the population is Catholic.
The creation was donated by the Koprivnica-Križevci county, of which Koprivnica is the capital, and the county’s Tourism Union. It was made by painters and sculptors from the village of Hlebine, one of the centres of Croatian naïve art.
The wooden egg was placed in a special nest, the media reported.
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