Event Category: Arts

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The festival has its origins in the distant 1950, когда студенты старших классов собрались вместе в парке Одори и соорудили десяток снежных скульптур. Позднее, через несколько лет, силы самообороны Японии начали участвовать в создании скульптур в качестве тренировок. Это участие продолжается до сих пор. Наиболее популярен фестиваль стал после XI Зимних Олимпийских игр в Японии в 1972…

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Carnival of Venice - a grand celebration in Italy, which is held annually in Venice. This festival – One of the most remarkable and amazing carnivals in the world. Duration of about 2 weeks, and the start date is selected according to the beginning of Catholic Lent. This ancient festival, the first mention of which relate to 11 Ages, took place after the harvest in honor of…

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By one of the most important festivals in Spain include the Fallas festival. It is celebrated not only in the capital of Spain, but also in other areas of the autonomous communities. No reliable information about the origin of this tradition. Medieval chronicles tell of fires, in which the townspeople burned wood and old furniture, celebrating the arrival of spring. Other sources associated with the holiday carpentry…

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Every year in Vilnius in early March arrange the most entertaining holiday Republic of Lithuania – it is fair Kaziukas, age-old traditions which have come down to our times already since the XVII century. The name of the fair is associated with the name of St. Casimir. He is the patron saint of Lithuania and lived in the XV century. This fair can rightly be considered the largest in the Baltic States….

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The oldest jazz festival in Europe (is carried out 1971 year), the second largest in the world. Annually, in may, here come the professional performers and jazz lovers from around the world, celebration lasts a week. The city of Dresden is also called the capital of the old jazz, so as to come to the festival more 500 thousands of fans of this direction of music and more 350 знаменитых музыкантов из более…