Carnival
Generally bound to the Christian Festival of fatty Tuesday, the carnivals is a relatively widespread type of festival in Europe and South America.
One makes derive the word carnival from carn (for caro, flesh) and swallow, because one eats much flesh during the Carnival to compensate itself for the Abstinence imposed during the Lent; others, with more reason, make come this word from caro vale , i.e., good-bye the flesh. But they are rather whimsical etymologies there. The linguists retain only the Italian origin: carnevale , composed of edge (flesh) and levare (to raise, remove, remove).
They generally consist of a period when the inhabitants of the city leave disguised (even masked or made up) and find themselves for Chant er and Danse R in the streets, to throw Confetti S, possibly around a parade.
According to the religious calendar, the carnival begins with the Épiphanie (on January 6th), date which marks the end of the festivals of Christmas and stops the fatty Tuesday, beginning day before of the period of Lent.
In Germany, the carnival begins in theory the November 11th with 11:11 and finishes the following year fatty Tuesday.
The dressings-up of all kinds, the night and masked balls, the walks of the Sunday-Fat and the Shrove Tuesday are the principal recreations to which one delivers oneself during the Carnival. The Carnival of Venice and in general those of the southernmost countries are most famous and most brilliant. This use seems to be a remainder of ancestral popular holidays, such as the Bacchanales, the Lupercales, the Saturnales, the Fête of Insane the, the Ass, etc
Some famous carnivals
the Antilles
- Carnival of Trinity-and-Tobago, Trinity-and-Tobago
Germany
Belgium
- Carnival of Binche, Binche
- the Cwarmé de Malmedy, Malmedy
- the Laetare de Stavelot, Stavelot
- Carnival of Calamine, Calamine
- Carnival of Eupen, Eupen
- the Laetare , Carnival with Pit-the-City
- the Carnival of Alost
Brazil
- Carnival of Vigia de Nazareh C Para, Vigia de Nazareh C Para
Canada
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Carnival of Quebec, Quebec, Quebec (more important carnival of winter)
Colombia
- Carnival of Bogotá, Bogotá
- Carnival of the Blacks and the White, Pasto
Spain
- Carnival of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Canary islands
- Carnival of Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Tenerife
the United States
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Carnival of New-Orleans, La Nouvelle-Orléans,
France
- Carnival of the two banks of Bordeaux
- Carnival of Dunkirk, Dunkirk
- Carnival of Leuc, Leuc
- Carnival of Limoux, Limoux
- Carnival of Cholet, Cholet
- Carnival of Nantes, Nantes
- Carnival of Nice, Nice - (1st Carnival of France)
- Carnival of Paris, Paris
- Carnival biarnes of Pau * Carnival of Pézenas, Pézenas
- Carnival of Sergines, Yonne
- Carnival of Turns, Turns
- Carnival of Glazed, Glazed
- Cavalcade of Scaër, Scaër
- Carnival of Novels, Romans-sur-Isère, Drome
France (DOM TOM)
Italy
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Carnival of Massafra, Massafra
- Carnival of Venice, Venice
- Carnival of Viareggio, Tuscan
Netherlands
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Carnival of Limbourg, Limbourg
the United Kingdom
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Carnival of Bridgwater
- Carnival of Notting Hill, London
Swiss
Musics of carnival
- Steel-drum, Calypso then Soca: Trinidad
- Conga : Cuba
- Huayno: Peru
- Murga, Argentinian, Uruguay: Panama
- Samba, Centered, Forró, Maracatu: Brazil
- Guggenmusik: Swiss
- Mazurka, Beguine, Stake: Guyana
Films
- Carnival (film, 1953) of Henri Verneuil
- Carnival (film, 1987) of Ronny Coutteure
- Karnaval (film, 1999) of Thomas Vincent
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