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Carnival 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com
| February 15, 2010 |
Carnival 2010
Once more, it is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades are put on just prior to the observance of Lent. Over the past few weeks parades and celebrations have taken place throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America. An estimated 730,000 foreign tourists, many fleeing snowy winter conditions in Europe and the United States, traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for this year's celebrations. Collected here are a handful of images from some of the elaborate celebrations of this Carnival season. (39 photos total)
A member of the Uniao da Ilha samba school, which this year pays tribute to "Don Quixote of La Mancha", works on a float dedicated to Spanish writer Miguel Cervantes, at Samba City in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 9, 2010. Samba City is a sort of workshop where Rio's samba schools make their floats and the fancy dresses for the famous carnival, which this year runs from February 12-17. (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images) #
A dancer dressed up as an angel performs in the carnival parade in Oruro, some 400 kms from La Paz, Bolivia on February 13, 2010. The Carnival of Oruro is one of Bolivia's largest cultural events, and in 2001 was declared by UNESCO as one of mankind's Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. (AIZAR RALDES/AFP/Getty Images) #
Carnival revellers dressed as "peliqueiros" run through a street in Spain's northwestern village of Laza on February 14, 2010. "Peliqueiros" or ancient tax collectors, used to pursue villagers through the streets during their tax collection, ringing cowbells and hitting villagers with their sticks. (REUTERS/Miguel Vidal) #
Carnival revellers march during the traditional street carnival, the so-called "Narrensprung", in the southwestern German town of Rottweil February 15, 2010. Disguised in handmade costumes and wooden masks from the 17th century, they pass the city's gate and walk through the streets of Rottweil by jumping up and down on wooden sticks. (REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic) #
The troupe Dzolamari from the village of Begnishte near Kavadarci, Macedonia, participates in the carnival in Prilep on February 14,2010. The Dzolamari keep alive the ancient tradition of rebuking the evil spirits at the beginning of every New Year, which is now obsolete in Macedonia. The Prilep Carnival, one of the few in the Republic of Macedonia, marks the beginning of Lent according to the Christian Orthodox calendar. (ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images) #
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