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  2. Carnival - Wikipedia

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    Carnival in Rome, c. 1650 Rio's Carnival is the largest in the world according to Guinness World Records. [1]Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, [2] consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

  3. Carnival in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Carnival in Italy is a farewell party to eat, drink, and have fun before the limitations and solemnity of Lent. About a month before Ash Wednesday , Italians celebrate over many weekends with parades, masks, and confetti .

  4. Carnival of Venice - Wikipedia

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    The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia; Venetian: Carneval de Venèsia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday ( Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras ), which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday .

  5. Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria - Wikipedia

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    Carnival Thursday is called Altweiber (Old women day) in Düsseldorf or Wieverfastelovend (The women's day) in Cologne. This celebrates the beginning of the "female presence in carnival", which began in 1824, when washer-women celebrated a "workless day" on the Thursday before carnival.

  6. Mardi Gras - Wikipedia

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    Mardi Gras (UK: / ˌ m ɑːr d i ˈ ɡ r ɑː /, US: / ˈ m ɑːr d i ɡ r ɑː /; [1] [2] also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. [3]

  7. Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Wikipedia

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    The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been celebrated since the time of the earliest European settlement, and possibly earlier. In 1605 Gaspar Luis Hidalgo alluded to the habit of reversing the sexes in dress. [citation needed] Early written references date from the end of the 18th century, in the writings of visitors.

  8. Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht - Wikipedia

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    This changed when, influenced by Romanticism, carnival started to develop. Beginning in cities like Cologne, where Fastnacht was increasingly being organized by the intellectual middle class instead of the working class, carnival quickly established itself throughout central Europe. The original Fastnacht still existed, but was driven back more ...

  9. Rijeka Carnival - Wikipedia

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    About a century ago Rijeka lived its carnival life more intensively than any other town in this part of Europe. Carnival parades were organized as well as carnival balls with the presence of Austrian and Hungarian aristocrats, Russian princesses, German barons, earls and countesses from all over Europe.