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'05-VXX in Nadur, Malta
 

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EUROPE by Country >City
AUSTRIA

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Samba-Music.com/Austria  || Deutsch || Samba Links ||  Austria Links ||
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dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)"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)."

ALBANIA

BELGIUM .fecc.be

 

www.fecc.be
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AALST  can you say "carnavaleusement vôtre"
 tit_aalst.gif (5765 bytes) | DUTCH ONLY | Officiële site  Much music Fotos
BINCHE /
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.   
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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

 
BULGARIA
Bulgaria host ed the 2004 FECC Carnival Convention
 www.carnaval.com/bulgaria

Survakar-group, Svetlya
"Without interrupting the authenticity the rvakar masks and costumes are becoming ever more beautiful, exotic and the bells ever more melodic."
Winner of the FECC logo from the 14th Festival of the Masquerade Games, Pernik city.

  

BOSNIA- HERZIGOVINA

CANARY ISLANDS
SPAIN off the coast of Africa

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

www.Carnaval-Tenerife.org  is official web site  lg-fecc.gif (1455 bytes)dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Pre-lenten "

"It's the second biggest in the world don't you know"

In the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the largest of the  Canary islands. Santa Cruz Tenerife loves its extravagant  Carnival.
Aforum FECC Web Site

Las Palmas
  www.laspalmascarnaval.com satur1.gif (9315 bytes)
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)The axis around which this feast for the senses turns is the Queen, whose coronation is the most magical night of the Carnaval. This often beautiful site which has total makeovers each year since it became one of the first Carnaval internet web sites can challenge your security settings

Rijeka

  Carnival + Rijeka || FOTOS

Novi Vinodolski Novi Vinodolski+ Carnival || FOTOS

In 2006  Novi Vinodolski / Rijeka (Croatia) will host the VIXX Carnival City Convention. Novi Vindolski is famous for its excellent beaches and International Summer Carnival held in July/August. Rijeka hosts Eastern Europe's largest Carnival in the traditional pre-Lenten time period. Dozens of towns in Croatia hold large Carnival celebrations.

Denmark

click pic for more fotos
 

Aalborg
KarnevaliAalborg.dk | Held in Late May | DANISH & ENGLISH |
"Largest Carnival in northern Europe... a celebration of life, spring and fantasy across religious and political borders."
FINLAND

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lg-fecc.gif (1455 bytes)Helsinki Samba Carnaval IS www.samba.fi dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Every  June, five samba schools parade for Helsinki Carnival as the featured event of  Helsinki birthday Celebrations

Helsinki City Guide in English | SVENSKA | DEUTSCH

FRANCE

Nice on the Cote dAzur is the largest Carnaval in France. Dunkerque is the wildest and widest Carnaval season. Nantes is up and coming and may be 2nd largest Carnaval in France. Paris has the most Carnavals, but none have recaptured the stature of the Carnaval du Paris of the early 20th century.
In 2008, Ploermel Carnaval [founded 1924] became the first Carnaval in France to host the FECC International Carnival City Congress. Ploermel in the Morbihan district of culturally distinct Brittany peninsula is famous as the City at the crossroad's to the Merlin's enchanted forest where the most powerful myths and legends of France still live on.

Annecy Leuc   Ploermel red_star.gif (2190 bytes)
Argenteuil Lille red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Nantes Provins
Bailleul Limoux red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Nice Remiremont
Biarnes  Lorient   Rennes
red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Cote dAzur Lyon red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Paris  Sergines
red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Dunkerque Marseille    

 

http://www.fcffrance.com
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Paris
Bienvenue au Centre de Danse du Marais in Paris

Nice
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Toulouse Excite's City Links | Best City Guide
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GERMANY

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carnaval.com/germany

www.fecc-deutschland.de/

Cities w/ karneval web sites

 karnevaldeutschland.de/ &
Aachen Ausschuß Aachener Karneval e.V. +karneval
Berlin Karnevalverband Berlin-Brandenburg +karneval
Buchen Narrenring Main-Neckar ++karneval
Dessau   ++karneval
Duisbert LRN +karneval
Duren   ++karneval
Erfurt http://www.karnevalthueringen.de/font> +karneval
Eschweiler Eschweiler Karnevals-Komitee +k+karneval
Hannover   +arneval
Koln Kölner Karneval +karneval
Krefeld Regionalverband Linksrheinischer Karneval e.V. +arneval
Lauingen Regionalverb. Bayer.-Schwäb. Fastnachtsvereine e.V. +karneval
Nabburg Fasching Ostbayern +karneval
Numbert http://www.karnevalthueringen.de//font> +karneval
Offenburg Ortenauer Narrenbund e.V. +karneval
Saarbrucken http://www.vsksaar.de//font> +karneval
Speyer http://www.fasnacht-goldener-loewe.de/ +karneval
Stuttgart http://www.lwkstuttgart.de/ +karneval

Samba-Online-Germany || Samba-online.de/ ||
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Contact SAMBA groups (percussion and dance) in Germany mostly Deutsch

Cologne or  Köln   | 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. After all the church Spring holiday of Easter is named after the Germanic Goddess Eostre.

fkklogo.gif (3436 bytes)lg-fecc.gif (1455 bytes)   www.koelnerkarneval.de |LINKS | | DEUTSCHE ONLY The largest of many web sites all in German.

Karneval.org || | DEUTSCHE ONLY
Kolner Karnevals-Museum by cologneweb.com | DEUTSCHE ONLY but has a good links list.r> www.karneval.de 

GREECE

CRETE
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Patras www.carnivalpatras.gr
The official web site for PATRAS CARNIVAL


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dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)University of Patras, Depart. of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Carnival Pictures and posters

ITALY 

Italy on Aforum

red_star.gif (2190 bytes)CarnevaleCommunity.com
& to English by google
links to the most  Italian carnivals and city parades and lots more. (in Italian only)		 "The individual loses his personality to mingle with the joyous crowd in the feast: the exhilaration, the You open the search interface! dance, the music, allow everyone to lose oneself to join the others and share with them emotions that lie outside common life, emotions in which the material and the symbolic elements find their synthesis. "



CANVESE  Carnavale+Canvese CITY GUIDE IN ENGLISH

Beinasco Carnavale+Beinasco

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

Ivrea  Carnavale+Ivrea
That fight for liberty is recreated with the Battles of the Oranges, in an amazing recreation of a famous local story./font>

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Massafrese  gibergallo.jpgwww.carnevalemassafrese.8m.com
Massafrese Carnevale by google

Click pic for more Massafrese fotos

Napoli Carnavale+Ivrea

CarnevalePalmese.com 
official site

Servola
www.servola.cjb.net  Carnavale+Servola

Verona ont> Carnavale+Verona
www.ducatosantostefano.it/  
official site
Ducato di Santo Stefano  by carnevalecommunity.com

Vercelli  CarnevalediVercelli.com  
 Carnavale+Vercelli

Vicenza  Carnavale+Vicenza
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dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Tourist Information of Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) Italy, Informazioni Turistiche su Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza).

Venice / Carnavale+Venice

[F] Venice Carnival/font> what's new in the aforum   |

Venezia Net VENICE CARNIVAL CALENDAR by doge.it | ITALIAN ONLY | ENGLISH & ITALIAN | r> venice97.gif (2616 bytes)Delpiano.com/carnival |
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)A tribute, artist photographer Roberto Delpiano, offers to the “Comune di Venezia” and its wonderful carnival.mtng.gif (10783 bytes)

Meetingvenice.it | ENGLISH |
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes) dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)"Your door for the real Venetian carnival"
Venice Carnaval Story by venitia.it | ITALIAN |
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)ImImmortal Masks of Venice Carnival  by Atlas Travel Magazine

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 red_star.gif (2190 bytes)il.carnevale.com/  Carnavale+VViareggio
One of the most beautiful and  spectacular events in the world. Don't miss the greatest floats ever constructed every Sunday they parade in February along the water of this very Italian seaside resort near Pisa.

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IRELAND  


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LIECHTENSTEIN

http://www.gugga.li/

LITHUANIA

MACEDONIA

Strumica Carnival in our image server

MALTA  

 

maltacarnival.com
excellent official site
Nadur
nadur + carnival Nadur on the Maltese Island of Gozo is the official host of the XXV FECC Carnival City Convention in 2005

Nadur rnival - UNIQUE!
by Peter Paul Buttigieg BA. [Paper read during the 21st Convention of the Federation of European Carnival Cities (FECC) in St. ...


MONTENEGRO

KOTOR  BUDVA, and TIVAT

Netherlands
Holland/Dutch

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The FECC or Foundation of European Carnival Cities has been headquartered in

carnaval-limburg-bcl.nl
 Dutch Samba Home Page Dutch Samba Home Page a part of worldsamba.org Dutch Samba Home Page a part of worldsamba.org || LINKS || events

Rotterdam, July www.zomercarnaval.com/
search rotterdam carnaval
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

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In many regions of Poland, the folk traditions have best survived

 

 as a Carnival ritual. This is particularly true in the mountains, where one can enjoy Winter Carnival madness on the slope, as ever more skiers, in Alpine tradition, dress in colorful outfits and dance to music from ski-lift speakers. This is when the music and dance of the Polish highlander tradition is peaking. The Catholic country generally observes modest Carnaval celebrations, although the cultural capital of Kracow once held a celebrated celebration EUROPEAN Winter Carnivals

bukowinatatrzanska.pl
part of the Zakopane metro resort area in the Tatra mountains of Southern Poland

Poland hosted the XXII FECC Carnival City Convention in 2002 www.carnaval.com/poland

PORTUGAL

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www.carnaval.com/portugal
Carnaval by sapo.pt has over 500 pages

Alcobaca
Carnaval de Alcobaça

OVAR red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Carnaval Ovar |

lg-carnavalovar.gif (1701 bytes) Portugal FECC on Aforum.com
Ovar the World Capital of Carnival for 2003 & host of the 2003 FECC Carnival Convention
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Pre-Lenten  Carnaval and host of the XXIII FECC Convention www.carnivalcities.com/ovarticles.html  
FECC Portugal section in Aforum.com

www.carnaval.com/portugal

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ROMANIA


RUSSIA

www.carnaval.ru

Downloadpushkin-town.net/ ||
Carnival ! || Search site for carnival Tsarskoe Selo is Pushkin which in 2001, in association with St. Petersburg hosted the magnificent IXXst Carnival City Convention

St Petersburg Carnival

SCOTLAND

Edinburgh
Edinburgh Samba School | LOCAL LATIN MUSIC & DANCE
SheBoom | LINKS | JOKES | Send Drummer Jokes Here
South Wales
Cardiff Percussion Group/Samba Galês | RealAudio |

SLOVANIA

PTUJ , MOZIRJE and MARIBOR

SPAIN

 


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red_star.gif (2190 bytes)Carnaval de Águilas | ENGLISH
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)A Pre-Lenten the people's fiesta for over two hundred years
Carnival of Villarrobledo in the province of Albacete, Castille- La Mancha. The Carnival has been declared a Regional Touristic Interesting Festivity.
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Also see Canary Islands under Africa

Cadiz
cartel99.jpg (45239 bytes)red_star.gif (2190 bytes)www.carnavaldecadiz.com SPANISH ONLY
Lots of fotos. Check out the archives Lots of Fotos. Check out the archives
Carnaval Gaditano | SPANISH ONLY


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SWEDEN


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Samba in Sweden a part of worldsamba.org
Samba in Sweden by Lennart Kjörling
Samba Links by A Bunda from Gothenburg
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Was organized by & Batucada.
Bar Brasil |
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Organizes the largest indoor Carnival in Sweden
hippi.jpg (4958 bytes)Hammarkullekarnevalen.com | Swedish Only |


www.destination.norrkoping.se
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)Check for the section on the Norrkoping Carnival

SWITZERLAND


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Carnaval by Carnaval.ch | SWISS ONLY |
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Basel |
bannerfoto4.jpg (15783 bytes)www.fasnacht.ch | SWISS ONLY

LIVE CAM |
Fasnacht by vtour.ch or Basel online
Excellent 20 page illustrated guide

UNITED KINGDOM


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Parades & Festivals in the UK by carnaval.com
Samba in the UK a part of worldsamba.org |
logo.jpg (13203 bytes)Glasgow's West End Carnival
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Hastings
Carnival!
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes) See Hastings Old Town Carnival Queen, Miss Hastings 1998. and the Carnival Princesses,  photos...

Westhead



London -
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lots of photos
Mas Bands in the UK by carnivalnet.org   A growing listing service by the England Arts Council Add your UK Carnaval group to the database.


Somerset Carnival (England)
GLOBAL

www.carnaval.starttips.com/
by Walter Vaerewijck Laatst aangepast: 16/01/2004

www.worldsamba.org || Perform in the Parade of Champions in Rio de Janeiro for Carnaval. Have your samba school babtized

www.carnivalcities.com  isFoundation European Carnival Cities (FECC) on Aforum The only global Carnival organization
Festivalfinder.com
Maintains its commitment 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.
www.festivals.com
huge database of annual festivals and resources for events productions

www.ifea.com The International Festival and Events Association since 1956 has provided professional development and fund-raising ideas to the special events industry. More than 2,700 professionals are members

 
GUIDELINES:
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)If you are the official web site for a Carnival, we wish to know about you and will eventually add your link here as well as our image server
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)We support to the global Carnival movement, and encourage your Carnaval to link with other Carnivals. Since 1997 we have provided web services to the FECC (Foundation of European Carnival Cities at www.carnivalcities.com 
We have many ways you yourself can add a link to your Carnival site including uploading an image at www.carnaval.com/fotos and add-a-link country or city sections for most carnivals.
dot_clear.gif (807 bytes)We define Carnivals broadly but mostly look for an annual parade that celebrates life.


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