Festivals in March

March Festivals

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Festivals in March - 16 Articles

Article Title: Las Fallas de Valencia

Festival Name: Las Fallas

Festival Country: Spain

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

I awoke to the sound of firecrackers or explosives at the very least. This was merely pre-Fallas, a warm-up for the enormous celebration yet to come. The fiesta was a week away, yet very much on the minds of every Valencian.

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Article Title: Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival

Festival Name: Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Winter

No trip to Colorado would be complete without attending the strangely-bizarre, Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival in Nederland held annually in March

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Article Title: The Holi Festival

Festival Name: Holi

Festival Country: India

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Bizarre

Holi is all about colour, namely colour in the hair, colour on the face, colour on your clothes, colour all over the streets and colour just about anywhere else it'll stick.

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Article Title: Fertile Fun

Festival Name: Hounen Penis Fertility Festival

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Street Parade

Remember the joke about the three old ladies and the flasher? Two had a stroke, but the other one couldn't quite reach.... Well, the Hounen matsuri (festival), held annually at Komaki's Tagata-jinja shrine, provides plenty of opportunities for all present to get their hands on some outsized phalli.

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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: An Un-Holi Mess

Festival Name: Holi

Festival Country: India

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural

Every visitor to India knows that it is one of the most colourful, noisy, chaotic, beautiful and frustrating countries there is. The festival of Holi encapsulates the intensity and contradictory nature of the country perfectly.

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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: Starkbierzeit: Strong Beer and Bavarian Heritage

Festival Name: Starkbierzeit - Strong Beer Festival

Festival Country: Germany

Festival Type(s): Beer

Have you heard of Starkbierzeit? It's German for 'strong beer festival,' an event held every March in Munich. For two weeks, Münchners take a break from Lenten self-denial, breweries bring out their most potent beverages, and beer halls throw noisy parties with Bavarian food and entertainment. Locals call it their 'fifth season.'

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Article Title: Bock Fest and Fasching

Festival Name: Bock Fest

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Beer

Fasching in February' sounds like an accident involving ligaments torn in a winter storm. But in fact, Fasching is a crack-up of another kind, a big costumed carnival, the German version of Mardi Gras, and one last loop-dee-do before Lent.

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Article Title: Doll Festival

Festival Name: Doll Festival

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional

Hina Matsuri translates into "doll festival" but this fun holiday is more commonly known as Girls Day and is celebrated every March 3rd.

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Article Title: Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Festival of the Steel Phallus

Festival Name: Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Festival of the Steel Phallus

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Adult

A large, pink phallus turns the corner and heads down the street. Sitting atop the shoulders of 10-12 men in bandanas, it bobs up and down to their rhythmic chants. Locals carve white radishes into images of the male reproductive system, preparing to auction them off at an afternoon banquet. Transvestites line the street; their red lipstick and hairy legs are no less a contrast than the grandmother who's licking on a lollypop that's in the shape of a....well, you can probably guess by now.

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Article Title: How to have a Blessed, Irish Easter

Festival Name: Easter

Festival Country: Ireland

Festival Type(s): Easter, Religious

Irish Easter begins, as do most Irish seasonal celebrations, with cleansing. Houses are to be cleaned inside and out, and whitewashed if necessary. As is the custom in the United States and many other places around the world, it is a time to purchase new clothing.

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Article Title: When the Sun Dances

Festival Name: Easter

Festival Country: Worldwide

Festival Type(s): Easter, Religious

'The sun's dancing day and the earths' holy day' - this is Jacobean poet Nicolas Breton's description of Easter Day. The British believed in ancient times that the sun danced for joy as it rose at Easter to commemorate Christ's resurrection. In many parts of Wales crowds still climb just before the dawn to the highest point in the area to watch the sun 'dance' as it rises on Easter Day. In the Vale of Clwyd villagers used to dance three somersaults on the top of Dinas Bran, thereby greeting the sun rise.

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Article Title: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day In Old Ireland

Festival Name: St. Patrick's Day

Festival Country: Ireland

Festival Type(s): Religious, Party, Food and Drink

All over the world, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated with elaborate parades; families tuck into the traditional dinner of corned beef and cabbage; and, in the pubs, the green beer flows swifter than the River Shannon. It's odd to think that just a short time ago, none of the most popular customs we often take for granted even existed.

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Article Title: Beer, Women and Huge Male Genitalia

Festival Name: Hounen Matsuri

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Adult

Not to be outdone, every March 15th, the small town of Komaki, Japan celebrates Hounen Matsuri. Matsuri means festival and Hounen, I'm fairly sure, means Big Wooden Penis. Okay, actually it means something much less interesting, but it SHOULD mean Big Wooden Penis, because there is, in fact, a Big Wooden Penis featured prominently throughout the festival.

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Article Title: Legends of Holi

Festival Name: Holi

Festival Country: India

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural

And Holi, the exuberant festival of colour, which is celebrated at this time of the year to rejoice the advent of Spring, is no exception. Holi is celebrated all over India, every region giving this festival its own flavour, zest and colour.

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