A carnival parade is a public celebration, combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season

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Carnival celebrations worldwide

Canada

Carnival in Yuh backyard Toronto, Canada. Caribbean Carnival (Caribana), celebrates its 41st anniversary in 2008. It is the largest Caribbean festival in North America.

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United States

Carnivals are also celebrated as Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Carnival in New Orleans. Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mardi Gras next year in New Orleans. Colors, fun, action....

Trinidad

To participate in Trinidad's 2009 Carnival in a popular band named Harts Click Here. Trinidad slang translation.

Spain

When Lent ends, the Saturday following Holy Week is celebrated in a festival in Murcia, Spain. Called the Sardine's Funeral Parade it marks the end of the period when it is mandatory to eat fish and vegetables only.

England

In England Shrove Tuesday is celebrated as Pancake Day, but apart from the serving of pancakes and occasional pancake races, and football matches, little else of Carnival survived the Reformation. Caribbean influence has led to the establishment of several "West Indian" carnivals, but these are not held in Carnival season. The leading festivities are Notting Hill Carnival in August (reputedly the world's largest), and Bridgwater in November.

Poland

In Poland the traditional way of celebrating the Carnival is kulig, a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the snow-covered countryside. The Polish Carnival Season includes the Fat Thursday - a day for eating paczki - and Sledziówka (Shrove Tuesday), or Herring Day (herring is a traditional Polish appetizer for drinking vodka).

Germany

German Carnival parades are held on Rosenmontag (Rose Monday), the day before Shrove Tuesday.

The meaning of Carnival

A carnival parade is a public celebration, combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season.

Some places are especially known for fantastic Carnival celebrations such as Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife, and Olinda in Brazil, Venice in Italy, Nice in France, New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama in the USA, Trinidad in the West Indies, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Cadiz in Spain. Carnival is a yearly event in Mexico celebrated with gusto each February. In Germany Cologne, Duesseldorf, and Munich are famous for their Carn masqueraders in parade ival celebrations, parades and costumed balls which, particularly in southern Germany, are called Fasching. Carnival is also celebrated in the southern Catholic provinces of the Netherlands - Noord-Brabant, and Limburg as well as in neighboring Belgium, England, and Poland which have their own unique experiences with Carnival.

Passionate, exuberant Rio comes alive when Carnival begins. As the temperature heats up, so do days of seemingly endless parades, balls and parties in Cidade Maravilhosa, or the "Marvelous City," as Rio is sometimes called. More on Carnival in Brazil. For a history of Carnival in Brazil Click Here. Celebrate Carnival in San Francisco.Purchase Carnival music.

The Origins of Carnival

The origins of carnival date back to the ancient Greek spring festival in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine. The

Romans adopted the celebration with Bacchanalia (feasts in honor of Bacchus, the Roman equivalent to Dionysus), and Saturnalia, where slaves and their masters would exchange clothes in a day of drunken revelry. Saturnalia was later modified by the Roman Catholic Church into a festival leading up Ash Wednesday. It quickly evolved into a massive celebration of indulgences - one last gasp of music, food, alcohol, and sex before Lent - before the 40 days of personal reflection, abstinence, and fasting until Easter (not exactly what the Church probably had in mind). 40 days of purging sins, preceded by a week filled with virtually every known sin. The word itself comes from Latin, "Carne Vale" or "Farewell to the Flesh". (Source Wikipedia.org)

Invitation to Travel

Dance to the music of drums, steel pans and the Samba. Experience Carnival like never before! Enjoy the Carnival experience of three countries-Guyana, Trinidad and Brazil. Each has a similar style but with different people and different music. Dance all day. Stay out all night... Guyana - is not quite Caribbean, and not quite South American. Guyana is the Caribbean because of its historical past, its quaint colonial architecture and friendly people. It is South American geographically and anthropologically, with land areas that would swallow most of the rest of the Caribbean combined.

Guyana is Eco Tourism country. Here jaguars roam, huge rivers are the major highways to the interior, indigenous Amerindians can be found leading traditional lifestyles, the waterfalls dwarf even the tallest buildings and Indiana Jones would be right at home searching for El Dorado, Sir Walter Raleigh's fabled City of Gold. This is Guyana… Trinidad is the true home of Carnival. When you dream of Carnival dream of Trinidad, dream of "Steel Pan & Drums", dream of "Rhythm and Enchantment..." Brazil - the mother of all Carnivals... Madness is in the air in Manaus. For seven days everything stops as beautiful bodies gyrate to the samba music of the Brazilian drums. Travel with our Portal and get the adventure you've never had before!

The Carnival Season

The Carnival Season refers to a specific holiday period covering the two weeks before the traditional Christian fast of Lent. Most commonly the season began on Septuagesima Sunday, the third from the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday, but in some places it started as early as Twelveth night, continuing until Lent. This period of celebration and partying had its origin in the need to use up all remaining meat and animal products such as eggs and butter before the fasting season. The celebration of Carnival ends on "Mardi Gras" (French for "Fat Tuesday", meaning Shrove Tuesday), the day before Ash Wednesday, when the rigours of Lent's 40 days of fasting and sacrifice begin. It sometimes lasts until Piñata Weekend, the first Saturday and Sunday of Lent. (Source Wikipegia.org)

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