Lasata Secului - Marginimea Sibiului
A young man jumps over
a fire during a celebration marking the upcoming Clean Monday, the
first day of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Christian church
calendar, on the hills surrounding the village of Poplaca, Sibiu county,
in the central Romanian Transylvania region, Sunday, March. 13, 2016. Romanian villagers set
light to piles of used tires and lit fires in the Transylvanian hills in
a ritual that marks the beginning of Orthodox Lent before Easter. (AP
Photo/Andreea Alexandru)