Carnival' 1o!

Carnival is a celebration that is celebrated all around the world. Here, in Catalonia, people dress up and organise parties, specially on the weekend. It takes places the firsts weeks of February and is celebrated in different towns and villages of Catalonia.

This year, my friends and I have made a float and we have participated in cercaviles of different villages: Sant Pere Pescador, Empuriabrava and Castelló d'Empúries. We were dressed up like soldiers, with a green helmet, a black t-shirt, some trousers like the ones that wear soldiers and we also painted a green and a black stripe on our face. We spent some weeks making the float, but the result was fantastic and we had a great carnival.
In the different villages we met other people and friends who were also dressed up. This year the fancy dress that has succeed is the one of gangsters (for the boys) and the one of cabaret (for the girls), there were a lot of people who dressed up like that.

The carnivals first started with the cercavila (a lot of people visited our float!) and then, normally in the “public building”of the village, it took place the rest of the party: all the people met there and there was a group of music that played there. For example, in Castelló d'Empúries played Pinocchio and Di-versiones, whereas in the other villages played some other bands. When these groups ended in some villages there was a DJ, but it was late and most of the people went back home.

Carnival is one of the best and funniest celebrations of all the year! And I can say that this year has been spectacular, and very beautiful. I’m impaciently for the next carnival!