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  • The Virgin Islands Carnival

    Compared to other Carnivals, which are celebrated in the month of February in the rest of the word, the Carnival of the American Virgin Islands occurs late in the year. This Carnival celebration, in particular the one in St. John, which begins on the last week of June and continues...

  • The Race of the Candles of Gubbio in Umbria

    Run, try not to tilt too much or fall and keep the same pace as the others—these are the key points of one of the oldest Italian folkloristic events. It's known as the Race of the Candles of Gubbio, a medieval town in the heat of Italy's greenest region, Umbria. Some believe that it has pagan festival...

  • The Brazilian Cavalhadas

    Every year, 50 days after Easter week, during a popular festival dedicated to the Divine Holy Spirit, the city of Pirenopolis stages a kind of open air theater, a very characteristic medieval battle: Cavalhadas. The city is found in central Brazil, in the state of Goias, one of the most...

  • The Sanch Procession

    On the border between France and Spain, on the streets of what was the capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, Perpignan, in the Eastern Pyrenees region, each year during the "Semana Santa," the Holy Week of Christ's Passion, which closes with Easter, a true human "monument" of Catalan popular...