Immediately Saturday 18th February marks the beginning of Madrid´s Carnaval Week.
Yearly, from the weekend earlier than Shrove Tuesday to Ash Wednesday, Madrid celebrates Carnival with a full metropolis council programme of free actions for all of the household.
After two years of pandemic induced restrictions the long-awaited 2023 celebrations begin right now within the Madrid Rio with the return of the Carnaval Parade.
The Carnival parade winds itself alongside the banks of the Manzanares River by way of Madrid Rio and the Matadero with 1000’s of performers of their fancy costume and masks to mark the beginning of the celebrations.
The parade will characteristic tightrope walkers, big chess items, swashbucklers, stilt walkers, skaters, folklore associations in addition to historic themes from Madrid´s lengthy and wealthy previous together with Habsburg Madrid and the 80s Movida becoming a member of mythological figures such because the Neptune, whose well-known fountain is a Madrid landmark.
The town’s multiculturalism can even be mirrored with 11 cultural associations from nations like Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina & Chile who will deliver South American flavours and rhythms to the festivities. .
The parade is run by Madrid performing troop Yllana who’ve been placing on exhibits, parades and performances all over the world for over 30 years.
The parade will kick off subsequent to the Perrault Bridge, an icon of Madrid Río, from the place it should head in the direction of the Greenhouse on the Explanada Negra. The stage might be arrange there, the place the performer from Madrid, Fernando Gil will learn the standard Carnaval proclamation.
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