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Fat or Shrove Tuesday

In New Orleans Fat Tuesday or , the festival in New Orleans. This festival starts on January 6, the Twelfth Night Feast of the Epiphany, when the three kings are supposed to have visited the Christ Child, and build to a climax on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, which always occurs on the day before . The parties and parades will continue until begins at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday. Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in New Orleans. It is scheduled to occur 46 days before . Since the actual date Easter occurs on changes yearly, Mardi Gras can happen on any Tuesday between February 3 and March 9.

In Italy

Carnevale is the traditional celebration in Italy. Carnevale was Mardi Gras predecessor. The French borrowed this idea and made it popular. This is a time of merry-making, masquerade processions, masked balls, parades, pageants, jugglers, magicians, stilt walkers, elegant costumes and opulent masks, singing and dancing, fireworks, and outdoor feasts in the weeks prior to Ash Wednesday. The festivities of the last days of carnevale are the most intense as they culminate on Martedí Grasso (Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday). There are traditional foods and dolci (sweets) distinctively associated with carnevale, including fritelle, crespelle, sfingi, castagnole, cenci, nodi, chiacchere, bugie, galani, fritole, berlingaccio, sanguinaccio and tortelli.

In Milano Mardi Gras is not the climax of , since the Carnival lasts four more days, ending on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, because of the . The last day of Carnival, therefore, is the "Sabato grasso" (Shrove or Fat Saturday).

In

The evil has left the village, a new life can begin. This old fashioned way of thinking has long vanished from the consciousness of those who bury the Carnival's Pust in Slovenia. Nowadays the burial of the Pust is an amusement, in some places even the only way of celebrating Carnival. It is interesting to see that in more recent years the working class in industrial areas have picked up the tradition again.

Anida Osmani & Iva Medved 9.a http://www.carnaval.com/slovenia/carnival/#kurentsptuj http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/fat_tuesday.asp