Christmas Eve in Czech Silesia

Christmas Eve in Opava Silesia

Here Christmas Eve was vilija. Around Klimkovice boys spent the weeks after St Nicholas secretly making whips, “to welcome the Christ Child properly on vilija” — and after supper ran to the village green to crack them as loudly as they could.

More Christmas Eves nearby

• Christmas Eve in the Hlučín Region
• Christmas Eve in Těšín Silesia (Těšínsko)
• Czech Christmas Eve, hour by hour