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Article Title: Venice Carnevale

Festival Name: Venice Carnevale

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

I went to Venice for two nights during Carnevale and stayed a week. The only reason I left was because it ended. I felt like a character in Ernest Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises", unable to decipher day from day or hour from hour.

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Article Title: Carnevale Di Venezia: Baby It's Cold Outside

Festival Name: Carnival of Venice

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

My Venetian friends had invited me to come to Venice for Carnevale, saying I could use a studio apartment kept for family and friends. This was an offer I couldn't refuse, so I arranged my schedule to be in Venice the last week of Carnevale.

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Article Title: The Quebec Winter Carnival - A Festival of Heritage and Family Fun

Festival Name: Quebec Winter Carnival

Festival Country: Canada

Festival Type(s): Winter, Carnival, Party

The dancing Bonhomie was my first introduction to the Quebec Winter Carnival, a blow out of fun, food and entertainment in the midst of the city's cold winter days. Held in the first part of February, it a fun way Quebecers outwit the harshness of winter, transforming the city into one massive outdoor party.

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Article Title: Carnaval! Quebec City's Frozen February Frolics

Festival Name: Quebec Carnaval - Carnaval de Quebec

Festival Country: Canada

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

I'm sitting in a small cafe just off the Place Royale in Old Quebec sipping delicious cafe au lait and munching on a flaky croissant as snowflakes settle gently on the gathered snow mounds outside the door. The sub-freezing air outside frosts the cafe window and the wind blows in crisp gusts. Giant icicles hang from the eaves of centuries-old buildings along the narrow street. It's February--Carnaval time in Quebec.

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Article Title: London's Calypso Carnival

Festival Name: Notting Hill Carnival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

But all that changes on the August bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street party and second only in the world to Rio's Carnaval - swings and sways its way into W11.

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Article Title: Mardi Gras - The Greatest Free Show on Earth

Festival Name: New Orleans Mardi Gras

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras

Throw me something, Mister! Throw me something!' shout thousands of street revelers to costumed riders on larger than life floats as they shower glittering trinkets over the scrambling crowd below. Parades--60 formal ones at last count and many other informal ones--fantastic costumes, elegant balls and intricately designed tableaux, all essential parts of Mardi Gras, one of the wildest celebrations in the country.

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Article Title: Mardi Gras Sneak Preview

Festival Name: New Orlean's Mardi Gras

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras

Many people do not realize this, but Mardi Gras or rather, CARNIVAL, begins on January 6, the Epiphany, or Kings Day. The parties and parades begin on a very small but widespread scale until the climax on the Wednesday before Lent which is Fat Tuesday.

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Article Title: Mardi Gras For Families

Festival Name: New Orleans Mardi Gras

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Mardi Gras, Carnival, Street Parade

We saw first hand what the city fathers of New Orleans have been saying all along; Mardi Gras in New Orleans is mainly a family event

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Article Title: The Spirit of Carnaval

Festival Name: Carnaval

Festival Country: Brazil

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

Carnaval can be smelt and breathed in the air of Rio de Janeiro. Everywhere you look at Carnaval time you can see a Carnaval smile, you can hear a Carnaval samba beat and you can feel the Carnaval spirit.

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Article Title: Ati-Atihan Festival

Festival Name: Ati-Atihan Festival

Festival Country: Philippines

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

The noise strikes you first. It's thick, heavy, relentless, a bone-rattling clamour that fills every available inch of airspace. It sounds like the march of a thousand jackbooted skeletons on their way to pay a visit on someone unpleasant, like the dentist or the taxman. Your brain takes it in as an all encompassing roar initially, but gradually the different rhythms and tempos become apparent. Over here an intricate staccato. Over there a dull thud. Right over there a mixture of the two but at twice the speed.

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Article Title: Mardi Gras - Filippino Style

Festival Name: Philippines' Mardi Gras

Festival Country: Philippines

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras

New Orleans is not the only home of Mardi Gras, there are four of them right here in the Philippines, each with their own unique style, culture and origins.

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Article Title: Orange Battle at Canrevale di Ivrea

Festival Name: Carnevale di Ivrea

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Carnival, Party

Unlike La Tomatina, the ammunition at Italy's Carnevale di Ivrea's orange battle doesn't get squished before it is hurled in the streets. It may, however, become smushed after colliding with the helmets that keep faces from leaking their own natural juices.

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Article Title: Maslenitsa - Russian Mardi Gras

Festival Name: Maslenitsa - Russian Mardi Gras

Festival Country: Russia

Festival Type(s): Mardi Gras, Street Parade, Carnival

The Russian Orthodox calendar includes four Lent-like fasts. The one coming before Easter is called the "Great Fast." Like the Catholic tradition, Russian Orthodoxy respects the need to enjoy oneself before a month of self-denial. In Russian, this week-long festival is called Maslenitsa.

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Article Title: Veracruz Lives for Carnaval

Festival Name: Veracruz Carnaval

Festival Country: Mexico

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

The air hangs heavy any time of year in Veracruz, Mexico's hot and sultry principal port city. But the hearts of Jarochos, as the people of the city are known, are light, for winter means Carnaval, the wildest pre-Lenten celebration north of Rio.

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Article Title: Tilcara, Argentina - Carnival

Festival Name: Carnival

Festival Country: Argentina

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

As the jungle road wound its way from Salta, vegetation seemed more and more exhausted the higher we got, changing from moist greenery to brushy shrubs until only cacti survived around the commanding heights of the Andes cordillera. What was lost in flora was gained in colour, as a rocky rainbow of ochre, violet, grey, olive and amber replaced the green of the leaves.

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Article Title: Battle of the Oranges

Festival Name: Battle of the Oranges - Ivrea Carnival

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Bizarre, Party

That fight for liberty is recreated with the Battles of the Oranges, which substitute stones. Italy exceeds its production quota of oranges as agreed within the EEC (the European Economic Community) , so the excess needs to be destroyed (just to keep up the retail price). My co-citizens cooperate in the difficult path towards a unified Europe by helping to smash some oranges.

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Article Title: Carnival on Cozumel

Festival Name: Cozumel Carnival

Festival Country: Mexico

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

Cozumel is well known as one of the premier diving destinations in the world. But many do not know that Carnival Week on Cozumel is one of the most colorful and biggest celebrations in Mexico. It is a week of parades, dance, costumes, music and street carnivals.

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Article Title: Carnival Time!

Festival Name: Carnival

Festival Country: United States Virgin Islands

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

It's Carnival Baby! That translates into a month long Hol-i-day for all people of St. Thomas. Carnival comes every April to this Virgin Island and with it are all the sights and sounds that comprise the Super Bowl of Caribbean Culture.

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Article Title: Carnaval Time in Mazatlán

Festival Name: Mazatlán Carnival

Festival Country: Mexico

Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party

Visitors and locals scream, sing, shout and dance amid confetti and ribbons. Bands of all kinds play the infectious rhythms of the State of Sinaloa. And the food-oh, the food-camarones (shrimp) prepared in every way possible, washed down with ice cold Pacifico beer, for it's Carnaval Time, Mazatlán's biggest pachanga (fiesta).

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