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Sadeh is a midwinter festival that was celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat the forces of darkness, frost, and cold. Chahar Shanbeh Suri: Festival of Fire, Last Tuesday of the Iranian Calendar year. It marks the importance of the light over the darkness, and arrival of spring ...
Inuit dance near Nome, Alaska, in 1900. A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music.This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts.
The Montreal International Jazz Festival is the most attended annual festival in the world. This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A festival is an event of the ordinarily staged by a community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions, often marked as a local or national ...
One of Spain’s oddest festivals takes place in the town of Bunol, near Valencia, every August. It is celebrated in honour of the town’s patron saints, and is thought to have started around ...
Galette Des Rois (France) On Jan. 6, Epiphany Day commemorates the day the Three Kings (aka les rois) visited the infant Jesus. The French celebrate the occasion with Galette des Rois, a flaky ...
Specific festivals have century-long histories and festivals in general have developed over the last few centuries – some traditional festivals in Ghana, for example, predate European colonisation of the 15th century. [5] [16] [17] Festivals prospered following the Second World War. [16]
Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.
Festivals in the Federated States of Micronesia (1 C) Festivals in Monaco (3 C, 3 P) Festivals in Mongolia (3 C, 8 P) Festivals in Montenegro (2 C, 1 P)