Brazilian CarnivalThe Brazilian Carnival is an annual feast, celebrated fourty days before the Easter (marking the start of a religious period, the L ...

Carnival in VeniceThe carnival in Venice was first recorded in 1268. The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in the many laws created over ...

When Lent ends, the Saturday following Holy Week is celebrated in a festival in Murcia, Spain. Called the Sardine's Funeral Parade it marks the end of ...

In Poland the traditional way of celebrating the Carnival is kulig, a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the snow-covered countryside. The Polish Carniva ...

In La Ceiba in Honduras, carnival is held on the third Saturday of every May to commemorate San Isidro, and is the largest in Central America. ...

In the Netherlands, the last day of Carnival (karnaval) is held exactly 40 days before eastern, making the days of celebration vary as far as from 8 j ...

In Germany, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Eschweiler, Aachen, Mainz, Bonn and Munich are famous for their Karneval celebrations -- parades and costumed balls w ...

In England Shrove Tuesday is celebrated as Pancake Day, but apart from the serving of pancakes and occasional pancake races and football matches (see ...