Top Winter Events Around The World

Rio Carnival 2012 (Photo credit: phossil)

Buenos Aires Tango Festival (Photo credit: Gerrysan)

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Italo-disco party in The Hague! (Photo credit: David Domingo)

By ]Adriana A Noton

One benefit of vacationing during the winter is that you can experience exciting winter celebrations. There are many travel destinations that offer incredible winter events. If you are planning on taking a vacation this winter, below you will find a list of the top winter events around the world:

Mardi Gras: The amazing Mardi Gras in New Orleans is one of the most exciting and fun parties in the world. Many people from all over the world come to New Orleans to experience Mardi Gras. When you experience Mardi Gras, you will enjoy wonderful blues and jazz in the French Quarter. As well, the streets are filled with partiers wearing fantastic costumes. Make sure you acquire many beads when partying and take a walk down exciting Bourbon Street.

Sundance Film Festival: The Sundance Film Festival in the great state of Utah is the event where you can see great films as well as A-list celebrities. The festival is held each January in Park City and is dedicated to showing and promoting independent films. People from all over the world attend the Sundance Film Festival.

Buenos Aires Tango Festival: Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, is the place to tango. Fantastic dancers perform and celebrate the tango. Both the locals and tourists can participate in free tango lessons. If you love dancing, the Buenos Aires Tango Festival is the event for you.

Bluff International Balloon Festival: The Bluff International Balloon Festival is a popular event where hot air balloons from all over the world participate in the event in January. Visitors can take part in programs that support local park restoration, educational programs, and art programs.

Shetland's Viking Festival: The Shetland Viking Festival in Scotland features guys dressing up like Vikings, lively parades, and the world's largest fire festival. You can experience the fire festival on the last Tuesday of January. Every year, people from all over the world, travel to Scotland to experience Shetland's Viking Festival.

Frozen Dead Guy Days: Totally weird, a resident of a Colorado community once kept her frozen father's body in a shed in her backyard. Authorities enacted a law against keeping a frozen body, but the community managed to keep one exception for the woman's father. Twenty years after his death, the community celebrates 'Frozen Dead Guy Days,' weekend every March in Nederland where a number of activities take place such as: polar plunges, snowshoe races, and coffin racing.

Carnaval in Rio: Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro is a week long pre-party. The event takes place for 4 days and ends the day before Ash Wednesday. It is famous for its drag queen show. Costumed party-goers celebrate along the streets and the Samba Parade is a fun celebration.

With so many parties, parades, and entertainment activities, visiting a winter event destination will definitely chase the winter blues away. Whether you are in the mood to party or create really cool snow sculptures, there is a winter activity out there that you will love. The next time you take a winter vacation, consider one of the top winter events from around the world.

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I Love Touring Italy - Sardinia Carnevale Season

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The island of Sardinia to the west of the Italian mainland (it's southwest of Rome) is among the most traditional regions of Italy and in fact of all Europe. So it's no surprise that this lovely region boasts a wide variety of spectacular Carnevales. Let's look at a few of them remembering that "once a year, you're allowed to go crazy" or as they said in Latin semel in anno licet insanire.

Venice's Carnevale

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By Cheryl Tieken


"A Carnevale ogni scherzo vale." Roughly translated, anything goes at carnevale. A great way to celebrate the coming of Lent is Mardi Gras, and an amazing place to experience all the festivities and grandiosity that come along with lavish celebrations such as this is at Venice's Carnevale. For almost two weeks every February before Lent, Venice celebrates with ornate parties, luxuriant masquerade balls and spontaneous parties in the streets. All the madness begins two Fridays before Ash Wednesday and finishes on Fat Tuesday.

I Love Touring Italy - Carnevale Season In Trentino

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The bilingual (Italian and German) region of Trentino-Alto Adige is on the border of Switzerland and Austria in northeast Italy. Given its heavily Germanic character don't be surprised that Carnevale here is fairly unique.



The village of Valfloriana population about 500 is located some 15 miles (25 kilometers) northeast of Trento. Its Matoci Carnival is named after comical characters dressed in colorful outfits, festooned with bright ribbons and traditional wooden masks that cover their faces, known as "facere". One of the most spectacular events during the carnival period is the "Descent of the Matoci", a tradition here and in surrounding villages. A masked procession leaves the villages to meet at a village square. This descent symbolizes the return to normal life after a difficult winter spent in isolation. There's music, dancing, and sweets and a masked ball at night.

I Love Italian Travel - Sicily Carnevale Season

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Acireale, a city of about 50 thousand, is about fifty miles (eighty kilometers) north of Siracusa on the eastern coastline facing the Ionian Sea. This coast is called the Riviera dei Cilopi; according to Homer's Odyssey it was created when the blinded Cyclops Polyphemus flung boulders at the retreating Ulysses, creating spectacular rock pillars known as faraglioni. This great site hosts what is widely regarded as Sicily's finest Carnevale, one of the few that can compete with Venice's world-class offering.