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Flashcards by Andrea Pan, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Rio de Janeiro | The mother of all carnivals! It is attended by over five million people, making it the biggest carnival in the world. The carnival is famous for its Samba Parades that feature 20-meter floats and thousands of performers. Over five hundred street parties take place across the city of Rio during carnival. |
| Viareggio, Italy | It is one of the most renowned carnivals in both Italy and Europe. Held annually for a month before the onset of lent. It attracts millions of spectators who come to view its amazing parades that feature incredible floats. |
| New Orleans Mardi Gras, USA | New Orleans Mardi Gras features numerous parades, costumed revellers and lots of merrymaking. Mardi Gras is known for the float riders throwing gifts to the crowd’s colourful plastic beads, which you will see everyone wear around their neck on Mardi Gras day. |
| Venice, Italy | This is the most extravagant and elegant carnival in the world. The carnival is famous for its revellers wearing traditional 18th century masks and costumes. Wearing masks, which dates to the 13th century, when people would disguise themselves to hide their social class. It is also famous for its luxurious masquerade balls and parties. |
| Trinidad and Tobago Carnival | It takes place the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It is without a doubt the best Caribbean carnival in the world. Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is famous for its colourful costumed band parades, wild rum-soaked parties and Caribbean music. |
| Notting Hill Carnival, UK | The Notting Hill Carnival, held annually in the end of summer in the trendy west London neighbourhood of Notting Hill. The Notting Hill Carnival is officially Europe’s biggest street party with an attendance by two million people. Notting Hill was created in the sixties to celebrate and represent London’s multicultural population. |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | The carnival is known for its crowded 24/7 street parties that fill all the streets and squares of the city. It also has parades, free concerts, dances, competitions and fireworks. People hit the streets wearing extravagant, colourful carnival costumes. Carnival closes with setting fire to a giant sardine. |
| Quebec Winter Carnival, Canada | This carnival gives the locals are reason to stop hibernating and just get outside and embrace the cold weather and drink a Caribou. A giant snowman is the mascot who lives in a five-story ice castle that gets remade every year for carnival. It features dog-sled racing, snow sculptures, snow baths, sleigh rides, balls, ice skating and nighttime winter parades. |
| Oruro Carnival, Bolivia | lt is an indigenous celebration that is about honouring Pachamama (mother earth) and Tio Supay (the God of the underworld). Carnival features a procession that lasts over 20 hours! Thousands of performers, dancers and musicians wearing gorgeous traditional folkloric costumes put on a massive theatrical parade. The parade tells the story of good triumphing over evil. It features the ritual La Diablada or the famous dance of the devils. |
| Crop Over, Barbados | This 300-year-old tradition marks the end of the sugar cane growing season. Crop Over is a celebration of Barbados' heritage, culture, music, dance, food and art. It is about embracing and celebrating life. The carnival festival even has its own mega-star ambassador, Rihanna, who joins the colourful mass celebrating Crop Over. |
| Nice Carnival, France | It is a pre-Lenten festival that runs for two weeks prior to Ash Wednesday. Nice Carnival features 11 different parades with thousands of dancers and musicians. It is famous for its Flower Parade that sees over 100,000 flowers thrown from the floats to the crowds. |
| Fasnacht in Basel, Switzerland | It lasts exactly 72 hours in what the locals call the three best days of the year. Basel Fasnacht features many traditions and customs that are centuries old. You will hear traditional music, see 20,000 traditional folkloric masked costumers parading around the town. There is also a beautiful lantern festival that lights up the city streets. |
| Barranquilla Carnival, Colombia | It is a pre-Lenten carnival that runs for four days prior to Ash Wednesday considered a must-see event. Carnival features amazing costumed parades, streets parties and a mix of Caribbean and Latin music. |
| Sitges Carnival, Spain | The Sitges Carnival is one of the biggest carnivals in Europe, with more than 300,000 people visiting every year. It is known for its wild street parties as well as being famous for its tolerance, so everyone is welcome to join the party. |
| Berlin Carnival of Cultures, Germany | The Carnival of Cultures, which takes place every summer in Berlin, Germany, aims to celebrate diversity and unity. It began in 1996 to protest against xenophobia and has continued to grow each year. Today, around one million people come to celebrate. Thousands of participants from all over the world showcase their cultures in a huge parade. |
| Mazatlán Carnival, Mexico | The carnival is famous for featuring an abundance of brass bands that line the Mazatlán ocean front boardwalk. The carnival also features lots of colourful parades and an incredible firework display. |
| Salvador Carnival, Brazil | There are no samba parades. Instead, Salvador Carnival is all about the blocos. It is officially in the Guinness Book of Record for officially being the world's the largest party. Salvador de Bahia is also the heart of Brazil’s Afro-Brazilian community. Afro-Brazilian music, food, dance, religion and martial arts traditions are still alive and well. |
| Aalborg Carnival, Denmark | The Aalborg Carnival runs for a week and consists of three main carnival events; The Battle of the Carnival Bands, Children’s Carnival and the Grand Parade. It is a unique carnival that occurs in Denmark’s fourth-largest city. |
| Rijeka Carnival, Croatia | Carnival season here runs for about a month filled with lots of parades, parties, music concerts. The carnival culminates in a Grand Parade that occurs on the Sunday preceding Ash Wednesday. The Grand Parade usually attracts around 100,000 spectators. |
| Ivrea Carnival, Italy | It is also known as the Battle of the Oranges. The town people divide into nine teams consisting of 4000 people. For three days, these participants throw 500,000 kilos of oranges at each other, as hard as one possible can. The Ivrea Carnival re-enacts the towns' freedom from an evil tyrant who was murdered back in the 12th century. |
| Recife and Olinda, Brazil | They feature many folkloric traditions that were influence from the Native Brazilian Indians. Recife is also famous for hosting the largest carnival parade in the world, with over 2 million participants joining in. |
| Junkanoo, Bahamas | Junkanoo is an exciting four-day carnival celebration that that showcases Bahamian culture and traditions. It is the only part of Bahamian society that is uniquely Bahamian. Junkanoo in the Bahamas is all about enjoying life and embracing your heritage with dancing, music, and joy. |
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