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Africa in aforum for what's new
Accra, Ghana, Africa
A New Year's Eve Carnival.   
Also see Canary Islands under Spain

ASIA
Asia in aforum for what's new

JAPAN
Tokyo
The huge Annual Samba Parade and Festival  is held each August in downtown Asakusa, Tokyo

G.R.E.S. Liberdade Links Page | JAPANESE TOO |
G.R.E.S.Bárbaros Links | JAPANESE TOO|

Taipei
Carnival Night | ENGLISH||
"Nearly every night, Taipei pulses until midnight with a carnival atmosphere of bright lights, tasty snacks, and crowds of people" (Editor's note this is a bit of a stretch but Chinese New Year does occur about the same time as Pre-Lenten Carnival and both are ancient Spring celebrations )

AUSTRALIA
Samba in Australia || Hot Links || Samba Schools from webmaster: Carlos Ferreira dedicated to Brazilian music, dance and culture in Australia, especially Samba!... this most infectious of rythyms!

Perth
Festival of Perth
Carnaval Latino 1999, with more than 500 dancers, 100 drummers, costumed masqueraders, giant puppets and decorated floats, celebrates a melting pot. [ Translate ]

Sydney
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras: Links | HISTORY | MERCHANDISE
The 6,000 member  Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras LTD elects a new  fourteen member board annually. World's largest Gay & Lesbian Event www.mardigras.com.au/
Sunzine.net | mailto:webteam@qldnet.com
SunZine is Queensland, from this site you will find information on 10 of the magnificent 14 regional centres throughout our beautiful sunshine state.

Toowoomba
Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers | carnival_flowers@toowoomba.com
Toowoomba is the home of THE Australian Carnival of Flowers.[ Translate by altavista ]

EUROPE by Country
AUSTRIA
Samba-Music.com/Austria  || Deutsch || Samba Links ||  Austria Links || mailto: Raimund Pichler
Webmaster Raimund organizes an annual samba meeting (encontrol) in January and his group ALEGRIA DA VIDA released its debut CD in February of 1999
"Did you know that Austrian Archduchess Leopoldine of Habsburg - became empress of Brazil in 1817? A part of Rio de Janeiro and a samba-school have her name today: The colours in the flag of Brazil have their origin in the colours of the Kingdom in Portugal (green) and the Monarchy in Austria (yellow)."

Belgium
www.carnaval.be || Thanks to Delangre Jean-Michel  for the Apr-00 update can you say "carnavaleusement vôtre"
Alst Carnaval  Officiële website | DUTCH ONLY |
Officiële site  Much music Fotos
BINCHE /Binche/carnival_fr. 
Belgium's most famous and oldest Carnaval  near "Charleroi" in the middle of Belgium 
STAVELOT   Blanc Moussi  
 a "laetare carnival" east of Belgium
a very old carnival "Blancs Moussis" is the most important group of this carnival   
Carnaval de Tournai || FOTOS || Links internautes.masques@advalvas.be   Tournai is an old City 90 Km from Brussels whose Carnaval returned around 1980 and now sees over 10.000 actors during 3 days in 90 groups called " confréries" taking fun. It's a "laetare carnival"  around 15 days before "Pâques" In 2000 it began 31 march for 2001 the 3 days begin the 21st of March More FOTOS  

Danish World of Samba ?404?http://homepages.ihr.net/rgrewer/SCONPAGE.HTM">part of worldsamba.org | ak.kaarsberg@get2net.dk || Links

| Send E-mail | Held in Late May"Largest Carnival in northern Europe... a celebration of life, spring and fantasy across religious and political borders."


FINLAND
Helsinki City Guide in English | SVENSKA | DEUTSCH | on Aforum.com
Samba and Carnaval in Finland by Association of Samba Schools in Finland |
Webmaster Harri Engstrand' s samba school is Imperio do Papagaio Helsinki Carnival is held in June as part of Helsinki Day, Year 2000 Celebrations are combined with 450 birthday of Helsinki.

FRANCE
Dunkerque
Carnaval de Dunkerque | FRENCH ONLY | Email
Photographs, sound. Ball Calendar. Discover Dunkirk folklore [ Translate by altavista by altavista ]

Guyane
Carnaval en Guyane 1998 | FRENCH ONLY | Alalla@mdi-guyane.fr
Il va falloir commencer à préparer les costumes !!! Heure de Guyane. Parade des associations. à Kourou le 14/02/98. Programme Officiel. [ Translate by altavista ]

Pantalonada
Carnaval Pantalonada | FRENCH | OCCITAN

Paris
Bienvenue au Centre de Danse du Marais in Paris
ME GUSTA LA SALSA | FRENCH |

Nice[ Translate by altavista ]
Nice Carnival by coteazuer.com
Nice Carnival by Beyond the French Riviera
Office de Tourisme et des Congrés de Nice

NICE FRENCH RIVIERA -TOURISM by coteazuer.com
Looking for a hotel in Nice. Postcards. General Information.  Program and booking. CARNIVAL 1999. 


Excerpt from the Book Wild Planet! at amazon.com

Toulouse Excite's City Links | Best City Guide
Samba in France|| Version française || Schools || Instruments in France || Dance Directory Costume Resources|| mailto: Alexandre Nouvel 
"Samba, as a street dance, is not widely practiced in France at the moment. "

GERMANY

Samba-Online-Germany || Samba-online.de/ || r.grewer@samba-online.de 
Contact SAMBA groups (percussion and dance) in Germany mostly Deutsch

Bavaria
Le Carnaval | GERMAN ONLY
Welcome to our extraordinary cultural and business forum centered around Munich in Bavaria. [ Translate by altavista ]

Cologne or  Köln | Excite's links | Encarta's links | Rough Guide Tips |  | Yahoo's Links
Europe's largest pre-lenten Karneval. Was it the German's who negotiated the truce with the Church over the Spring fling the Church could not control. Afterall the church Spring holiday of Easter is named after the Germanic Goddess Eostre.

  www.koelnerkarneval.de |LINKS | | DEUTSCHE ONLY The largest of many web sites all in German

Karneval.org || schreiben Sie uns.| DEUTSCHE ONLY
Kolner Karnevals-Museum by cologneweb.com | DEUTSCHE ONLY but has a good links list
www.karneval.de 
www.kluengel-tropical.com Local Samba Group  in English

GREECE
Patras
| ENGLISH | webmaster@apel.ee.upatras.gr
University of Patras, Depart. of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Carnival Pictures and posters,  [ Translate by altavista ]

ITALY  
Italy  on Aforum

CarnevaleCommunity.com || carnevalecom@virgilio.it 
links to the most important Italian carnivals and city parades and lots more. (in Italian only
Samba Home Page for Italy by worldsamba.org
CANVESE CITY GUIDE IN ENGLISH
Storico Carnevale di Ivrea | | GETTING THERE

Beinasco
Le Maschere Tradizionali - Il Carnavale - Eventi - Beinasco OnLine | ITALIAN ONLY | mailto:gianden@iol.it
EVENTI Feste & Manifestazioni Beinasco OnLine. Il CARNEVALE. Le Maschere Tradizionali Gianduja e Giacometta La vicinanza con Torino e le vicende... [ Translate by altavista ]

Bologna
http://www.comune.imola.bo.it/iniziative.htm 
official site

Cervetto
www.comitatomanifestazioni-vc.com/cervetto/cervetto.html 
official site

Ivrea 
Il carnevale d'Ivrea (on geocities in English)
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...

The Official Website of the "Storico Carnevale di Ivrea" (In Italian only...sorry!!)

carnevalediivrea.com/inglese

http://welcome.to/scacchi 
 the official website of the "Scacchi" orange thrower team!!

Napoli
CarnevalePalmese.com 
official site

Perzacco

Putigano
Carnevale di Putignano

Servola
www.servola.cjb.net 

Verona
 www.ducatosantostefano.it/  
official site
Ducato di Santo Stefano  by carnevalecommunity.com

Vercelli

 CarnevalediVercelli.com  
Il Presidente Cesare Losa chrbob@carnevaledivercelli.com
Christian Bobbola chrbob@iol.it
webmaster of Comitato Manifestazioni Vercellesi.
comitatomanifestazioni-vc.com/  

Vicenza
 
Tourist Information of Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) Italy, Informazioni Turistiche su Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza). [ Translate by altavista ]

Venice 

Venice Carnival what's new in the aforum  
CarnivalofVenice.com | English | Italian | French | German | Spanish |
CarnivalofVenice.com | English | Italian | French | German | Spanish | info@carnivalofvenice.com
You will discover through history and culture how the Carnival used to be celebrated and how it is celebrated today in a city like Venice.
Venezia Net VENICE CARNIVAL CALENDAR by doge.it | ITALIAN ONLY | ENGLISH & ITALIAN |
Delpiano.com/carnival | delpiano@ix.netcom.com
A tribute, artist photographer Roberto Delpiano, offers to the “Comune di Venezia” and its wonderful carnival.

Meetingvenice.it | ENGLISH | mvinfo@meetingvenice.it
 With 1999 carnaval info [ Translate by altavista ]

info@masksofvenice.com
"Your door for the real venetian carnival"
Venice Carnaval Story by venitia.it | ITALIAN |
Il Carnevale di VeneziA w\ travel packages | ITALIAN
Immortal Masks of Venice Carnival  by Atlas Travel Magazine

Viareggio

TUSCANY REGION
Il Carnevale di Foiano della Chiana | ITALIAN ONLY|

IRELAND
Samba in Ireland || droiched@iol.ie
is presented by the Droichead Arts Centre "Home of Samba in Ireland"Drogheda is a small town about 40 miles North of Dublin on the river Boyne. Each July since 1994 a

Netherlands / Holland / Dutch
Dutch Samba Home Page Dutch Samba Home Page a part of worldsamba.org Dutch Samba Home Page a part of worldsamba.org | Marvin.Philippi@rivm.nl | LINKS || events

Rotterdam, July Rotterdam Web by yahoo.com
Compares itself to the end of August Notting Hill Carnival in London (Europe's largest street festival with 2,000,000 revelers.) This street parade is visited by over half a million visitors.
Carnaval in Nederland |Links | DUTCH ONLY |
Escola de Samba Os Malandros | DUTCH ONLY|
POLAND
|| artys@atomnet.pl
"One of the most popular Brazilians amusements is to observe Europeans who try dance the real samba during carnival in Rio."

PORTUGAL Portugal FECC on Aforum.com

Carnaval Ovar | PORT. ONLY | mailto:webmaster@ovar.net Pre-Lenten  Carlos also moderates the FECC Portugal section in Aforum.com and maintains this excellent site for his Marados Carnival group mailto:webmaster@ovar.net Pre-Lenten  Carlos also moderates the FECC Portugal section in Aforum.com and maintains this excellent site for his Marados Carnival group

Acestarreja.pt | PORT. ONLY | info@acestarreja.pt
Pre-Lenten English coming Eduardo Dias says he has documents showing his Carnival is as least as old ast 1897. info@acestarreja.pt
Pre-Lenten English coming Eduardo Dias says he has documents showing his Carnival is as least as old ast 1897.

SPAIN

Carnaval de Águilas | ENGLISH | José Luis Cerdá Díaz
A Pre-Lenten the people's fiesta for over two hundred years

Also see Canary Islands under Africa
Carnaval de Águilas | ENGLISH | José Luis Cerdá Díaz
A Pre-Lenten the people's fiesta for over two hundred years
Carnaval de Aguilas || carnaval@arrayinter.net | Spanish Only
For further info.: Federación de Peñas de Carnaval; C/. Francisco Rabal, 4; 30880 Aguilas (Murcia) SPAIN
CALENDARIO SECTORIAL by Feriavalencia.com | feriavalencia@feriavalencia.com
The Valencian Fairs are of a great importance in the fairworld. [ Translate by altavista ]

GLOBAL
www.worldsamba.org || Federation||
Perform in the Parade of Champions in Rio de Janeiro for Carnaval 2000. Formally recognized by the Brazilian Government as one of the official events of Brazil's 500th Anniversary Celebration!! Now organizing more by group rather than countries

'99 Global Carnival Calendar by So Yu going to Carnival magazine
The only International Guide to Canivals
Foundation European Carnival Cities (FECC) on Aforum
The only global Carnival organization
Festivalfinder.com [Alternative || Blues || Bluegrass || Cajun & Zydeco || Classical || Country || Eclectic || Folk || Jazz || Reggae & World Music || Rock || Misc. ] mailto:christi@festivalfinder.com
Maintains its committment to providing information on music festivals of North American admirably well and does a good job at the same time for Europe and the Caribbean.

Lots of Links


UBL.com | ubl@ubl.com
The ultimate resource for Carnival WWW links, CD's, Biographies, Homepages, Contests, Tour Dates and Sound Samples. [ Translate by altavista ]

GUIDELINES:  If you know of a web page with a list of regionally organized Carnival or Festival Event links please tell us so we can add it to this growing list. (This is a good way for a Carnival Group or a free web site to get traffic to their site.)
Also, if you are the official web site for a Carnival we wish to know about you and will eventually add your link for free.
We provide additional support to the FECC (Foundation of European Carnival Cities then we have special section in Aforum.com to feature your link.
Can't wait for us? Go ahead and tell everybody about your web site or event on the bulletin board located here under  Carnaval.com/FORUM/CarnavalCities/FECC/New Web Sites

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