If you think that between Christmas and Easter there is not anything important to mark in the Spanish celebration calendar that is why you don’t not know the Carnival Party; A party, which is associated to the countries of Catholic tradition that gives way to Lent (religious period of purification, intended for the preparation of Easter, which included between amongst other tasks, the abstinence of the intake of meat) and permitted any kind of excesses related to food, alcohol, passion, the spree, the performance… In short, a period: permissiveness and certain lawlessness.
Although the fulfilment of the mandatory required by the Lent has been relegate as the years passed, Carnival has endured from year to year, Spaniards can change of identity during these days to transform themselves to pirates, witchs, superheroes, or princesses and be transformed to the character that they always have dreamt for a few days.
Spanish streets and squares are dyed by a color, magic, masks, wigs, dances, music and imagination, a lot of imagination. The rituals and formulas to celebrate Carnival are the most varied ones and they usually vary from one region to another:
The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands)
It is considered the second most famous Carnival in the world level, after the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. This is declared party of International Tourist Interest by the Secretary of the State for Tourism, currently the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife hopes to be transformed in Heritage by UNESCO.
The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife counts with two well differentiated parts:
- The Official Carnival: murgas, comparsas, groups of costums, musical groups…
- The Carnival Street, featured by the participation of the population. [Read more...]
