Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the craziest carnival event in all of the United States of America that attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year.
It is the appointment of Carnival largest in North America, which attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year.
Conceived as a great collective party two centuries ago to welcome Grand Duke Alex Romanoff Alexandrovitch. The origins, in fact, date back to 1827, to the so-called Mardi Gras Celebration. In 1833 Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville, a landowner, financed the festivities and in 1837 the first fashion show was staged on the streets of the city.
Since then, the New Orleans Carnival has become the craziest party in the world. Here the celebrations are very important as all its organization, so much so that this period is often called "madness" (madness).
Il New Orleans Carnival it is unique above all for the peculiarities of its tradition, for the rites that have been perpetuated over the centuries thanks to the krewes, real clubs that take care of the organization of dances and masquerades and are responsible for the parades and floats that parade in the city.
This year the New Orleans Carnival will start with the parade of January 19, the Krewe du vieu, which will leave in the early evening from the French quarter and with all its floats will head towards the streets of the city center and in the following days there will be parades and themed parades.
La West Bank is the main place, and hosts the homonymous event every year 50s version of Orleans Parish and dedicated to the mythological figure of the god Adonis, a symbol of beauty and excess. On this occasion, 200 men and women, 16 allegorical floats and bands parade to the tune of songs, while the king and queen of Mardi Gras they are elected annually and are presented only a few hours before Carnival dance, a real masked ball with a lot of presentation to the society of debutants.
among the must of Mardi Gras there are first of all the official colors: green, purple and golden yellow. On the other hand, there is no univocally decided theme for the edition of each year, but it is the individual organizers who choose a subject for their parade, which they uniform masks and figures, and which also gives the title to the allegorical float. The themes chosen are the most disparate and range from the ridiculous to the sublime, from satire to mythology, from children's fairy tales to geography. Among the symbols occurs the Bouef Gras, literally the "fat bull", emblem of the last meat eaten before Lent.
A tip to the passage of the wagons shout "Throw me something”And from the top of the wagons you will be submerged by a wave of colored necklaces, pearls and stuffed animals.
