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Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival. It lasts two weekends and the tickets sell out in minutes. This year (2018), Tomorrowland will begin on July 20th and will end on July 29th, with the theme “Amicorum Spectaculum”.

The festival is well known around the world in many different languages.

The objective of Tomorrowland is to excite audiences like Mysteryland does in the Netherlands.

The first Tomorrowland festival lasted just one day and, as it got more popular, it started lasting longer, until it got to two weekends in 2014.

The festival has a full service of Belgian chocolate bar, serving some of the best chocolate in the world.

Tomorrowland was voted the best festival of its kind in the world at the International Dance Music Awards in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

There is also a Tomorrowland Brazil that was held in 2015 and 2016, in São Paulo, but stopped because of concerns about the country’s economical problems. However, it plans to return in 2018.

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The Carnival of Venice takes place every year in the weeks leading up to Shrove Tuesday. It is the last opportunity to enjoy the party before the forty days of Lent begin, just like in Brazil.
It started because of the victory of the Venice Republic against the Patriarch of Aquileia in 1162. In honour to this victory, people started to dance and gather round in San Marco Square.
In 1797, the festival was forbidden, but it`s happened since 1979, when the Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice. Nowadays, almost 3 million visitors go there every year.
The most popular outfits are traditional costumes of the 18th century lords and ladies and it`s also very common to see people wearing fantastic masks.
The classic mask is the Bauta, which covers the entire face. There`s also one called Medico Della Peste that was created by a French physician in the 17th century. One curiosity is that this mask was originally adopted for sanitary precautions while treating plague victims. Another masks are the Colombina, Moretta muta, Volto Larva, Pantalone, Arlecchino and Zanni.

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In the southwest of the United States the weather conditions get predictable and allow people to set a ballon and hang it up in the air.

When the weather gets stable with weaker wind forces and low density hot air at the height of around 1500 meters, it becomes safer to launch ballons in the air.

So, in October, a large field near of Albuquerque City, in New Mexico, becomes the launch up spot for more than seven hundred of the most colorful ballons. This painted air attracts more than one million spectators every year and it is the biggest ballon festival around the world.

The event lasts a week and it has got a lot of entertaining shows, such as concerts, TV shows and of course the ballons launch up and even a race of ballons.

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Mardi Gras is commonly refered to as a season of events, but it’s actually only one day. Some people call it “Fat Tuesday” because they eat a lot of fatty food on this day, prior to fasting during the Lenten season. And others call it “Shrove Tuesday”, wich means the last day before the liturgical period. The celebration dates back centuries to pagan celebrations of fertility and the season of spring.
The season of floats, parades and parties leading up to Mardi Gras is called Carnival. The day after is called “Ash Wednesday”, a day devoted to fasting, reconciliation and praying.
The first carnival of New Orleans occured in 1800 and since then it has been celebrated every year 47 days before Easter.
So, basically, the New Orleans carnival is like the Brazilian carnival, only a little smaller and less known. They dance, sing, party and have fun! The general consensus is that you should party as much as you can, because Ash Wednesday and Lent are coming.
That season has even its official colors, such as gold, purple and green. And each color has a meaning: gold for power, purple for justice and green for faith.
Beatriz Nunes Passos de Andrade

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The Up Helly Aa Fire is a festival that takes place once a year in Lewrick, a city in the northern islands os Scotland. It happens in the middle of the winter and marks the end of the New Year's festivals.

On the last tuesday of January, hundreds of inhabitants get to the streets of lewrick and other minor rural locations, dressed up as vikings warriors. They march thruogh the streets and visit important locations, always holding torchs. At the end of the festival, a real-size viking galley is realeased into the sea and burnt. The following wednesday is a public holiday in the city, to allow them to recover.

The "Up Helly Aa" nme means "Up Holiday of All", since traditionally there are other minor fire-related festivals in the region.

The current festival came out from older traditions of tar barreling (where a barrel is soaked in tar - a alcoholic drink - and carried by drunk citizens) that used to happen in the same period of the year, next to the Christmas and New Year. In the actual festival, there are also a competition between teams, who make their costumes, boats and musics for the event - just like Rio's Carnival.

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The Lemon Festival, or Fête
du Citron (in French), has taken place in the city of Menton (in France) since 1933. The city is in the region in which the biggest lemon production in the Europe is located. The Festival started as a citrical fruit fair, but with the big public it attracted, it soon became more like a carnival. In each edition the festival attracts more than 160000 visitors and this number grows with each year. It lasts for three weeks in February.

During the festival, 10 meters high sculptures made with lemons, which usually needs about 140 tons of fruit in total to be made, invade the streets and squares of the city. Each year the festival follows a different theme. Last year's theme was the book ''20000 submarine leagues'' by Jules Verne. People build submarines, divers, turtles, fish and other insane creatures using lemons. The festival honored Brazil in 2006.

Although the sculptures are the most interesting thing of the festival, there is also a gastronomical part. Chefs prepare thematic dishes using lemons, of course, and typical food according to the theme, such as fish, in case of last year's edition.

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Carnival is an amazing festival which happens in Brazil in February. For you to have an idea  about how the Brazilians love this celebration, some years they start it a month in advance and end a month later.

In that festival, there are many parades with music and people dressed up with traditional costumes, which involves a lot of money. Moreover, people who don`t want to spend so much can celebrate too! Street parties are present all over the country, and most of them are free!

In fact, people think it`s time to do everything ever wanted. Becouse of that, many of them get drunk and party hard, and that`s why it calls the atention of many people of other countries. At the same time, the government conducts awareness campaings to help the population.

At the end of the festival, religious people stay fourty days without eating something they really love, as a punishment for those days, and thats a belief.

Everyone is welcome in Carnival!

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The Harbin international ice and snow sculpture festival is ana annual festival, that happens in Harbin, China, during the winter.

It has originated in Harbin`s tradicional ice lantern show and garden pary, which has began in 1963.

At the begining, this festival was mainly chinese, but it has become the largest ice and snow festival in the world. Harbin, during the festival, is one of the most popular travel destination.
This festival starts officially on January 5, because of the harsh winter, and lasts one month.
There are three venues, which are Sun Island Scenic Area, only displays snow sculptures that can be visited durinfg the day, The Ice and Snow World, sculpures of huge scale such as buildings, and Zhaolin Park, that there are interestings activities for kids.
In the festival, the are a lot of sculpture around the city, there are frem animals till castel. during the day the are just an amount of snow, but in the night, with all the lights on, is just amazing!!

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It is a global celebration of Irish Culture on March 17th. It particularly remember St. Patrick, one of Ireland's patron saint.

A lot of people wear an item of green clothing on this day. Parties featuring Irish food and drinks that they dye in green food color are part of the celebration.
The original color of St. Patrick was blue. One of reasons green replaced blue was because of Ireland's flag that has a green stripe l. Traditionally, green also represents the Catholic people.
There are some very traditional food like Corned Beef (is a salt-cured beef product. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large grained rock salt, also called "corns" of salt) and Shepherp's Pie or cottage pie is a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato.

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The Taiwan Lantern Festival is an annual event that happens in every February/March and it is hosted by the Tourism Bureau of the ministry of transportation and communications in Taiwan.

During this festival, thousands of sky lanterns light over the Pingxi district, and it was originally released to let people know that the town was safe.

The lanterns are decorated according to wishes and images related to the owner. The main lanterns are often related to the zodiac signs of Chinese astrology and they are over ten meters tall; every main lantern has its own music that lasts about 3 days during the festival. The small lanterns are often carried by children or placed in temples and they show images of historical figures, birds or the year's theme.

This year's festival will bring together tradicional lanterns with high tech ones, that are made with light bulbs, mercury-free batteries, neon lights, LED lights, laser shows and projection mappings.

https://youtu.be/PNAofH9GpCU

-Ana Tereza Mafra

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The Burning Man is an annual event that happens in Nevada EUA.  The first Burning Man was in 1986 in San Francisco, it was a small event.

Every year more than 70000 gather round in the middle of a desert and build togheter a temporary city. Soon it comes to be a great experience of community and art. The event takes its name from its main ritual of burning a large wooden statue, the Man.

At the festival, cooperation and collaboration are the reasons why the festival rise, it is the precept for the community. The funniest part it is that all the people in the festiva are allowed to include experimental and interactive sculptures buildings, do any kind of performance, all inspired by the yearly theme

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In Mexico, death is celebrated once a year - from October 31st to November 2nd. The party is considered by UNESCO as a patrimony of humanity. It is a tradition to bring the family and friends to commemorate the visit of their ancestors to the Earth. People believe that the dead should be received with joy and other things they liked when they were alive. The famous Mexican skull (La Catrina), costumes, typical food, drinks and candles are symbols of the Day of Dead. Some cities organize costumes competitions to elect who is wearing the best La Catrina dress. People serve fruits to honor the souls elements of nature.

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Chinese New Year, usually known as the Spring Festival in modern China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunar and solar lChinese calendar. It is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. Celebrations traditionally run from the evening preceding the first day, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. The first day of the New Year falls on the new moon between January 21 and February 20. It is one of the world's most prominent and celebrated festivals, and involves the largest annual migration in the world.

It is a major holiday in great China but it is also celebrated worldwide in several countries in Asia, Europe and America.

The New Year festival is centuries old and associated with several Chinese myths.Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. With regional customs and traditions  the celebration of the Lunar New Year is very variated . Often, the evening preceding Lunar New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean the house. Windows and doors are decorated with red colour paper-cuts and with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". This reunion is named “Nian Ye Fan” and is held at New Years Eve. They usually have lots of plates such as chicken, pork, meat, dog, or fish dishes fried noodles, vegetables cakes and tofu.

In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and decorations used to adorn altars over the past year are taken down and burned a week before the new year starts, to be replaced with new decorations. Families often offer sweet foods in order to make the deities such as Zao Jun (the kitchen god) into reporting good things about the family to the Jade Emperor.

Myth envolved in the festival

Traditional Costumes

Lanterns

Lantern Festival

Nian Ye Fan

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The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, historically rooted celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona,in Spain.

The celebration starts at noon on the 6th of July,when the opening of the party is marked by setting off a pyrotechnic show (chupinazo). It continues until midnight of the 14th of july, when people of Pamplona reunite in the City Hall Plaza to sing the song ''Pobre de Mí''.

The most famous event of the festival is the encierro, or the running of the bulls. It consists of hundreds of people running in front of six bulls and six steers down an 825 meter stretch of narrow streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona. It ends in the pamplona's bullring, lasting around 3 minutes.

Saint Fermín is said to have been the son of a Roman Senator who was ordained a priest in Toulouse and later became Pamplona's first bishop. On a later preaching voyage, he was beheaded in France, and is now considered a martyr of the Catholic church.