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It was founded by a Scotsman, Major Peter Lindsay, [2] who was looking for a new site for winter sports away from the ski resorts of Austria and Germany, because of the growing strength of the Nazi regime. In 1936, he visited the town of Les Allues for the first time. He then imagined how the town could become a ski resort.
The Cristal Festival is an international festival for professionals of the communication, advertising & creative worlds. Previously known as Méribel Ad Festival, it is now held every year in December, in the ski resort of Courchevel, French Alps). In 2014, the event will take place from 11 to 14 December.
In 1344, Mariazell was elevated to the status of market town. Between 1340 and 1380, the church was rebuilt in the Gothic style. In 1420, the Turks of the Ottoman Empire invaded Mariazell for the first time and burned the church and the town. In 1474, another fire devastated the town. In 1532, the Turks returned to Mariazell and set more houses ...
In German-speaking countries, there are essentially 2 distinct variations of Carnivals: the Rhenish Carnival in the west of Germany, centred on the cities of Cologne, Mainz and Düsseldorf, and the Alemannic or Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht in Swabia (Southwestern Germany), Switzerland, Alsace and Vorarlberg (Western Austria).
Großes Festspielhaus, an opera house and concert hall dating from 1960 and built for the annual Salzburg Festival; Haus für Mozart, formerly the Kleines Festspielhaus, an opera house and concert hall dating from 1925; Hohensalzburg Fortress (Festung Hohensalzburg), overlooking the Old Town, one of the largest castles in Europe
Ancient customs survived in the rural parts of Austria, Switzerland, Bavaria, Slovenia, western and northern Croatia and north eastern Italy in the form of dance, art, processions, rituals and games. The high regional diversity results from the mutual isolation of Alpine communities.
Here, see all the best photos of Kate, Charles, and more royals at Trooping the Colour 2024: King Charles waves as he arrives at the Palace before the parade. BENJAMIN CREMEL - Getty Images
A likely derivation looked to Proto-Indo-European pwo-"purify" (cognate to pava-mana), or alternatively to Middle High German vaselen "prosper, bud", and interpreted the festival as a fertility rite. [ citation needed ] Historians around Werner Mezger refuted those theories, and showed that the name derives from fasten ("to fast") and the ...