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One of the most popular
parties in Venezuela is the Carnival. Days full with
papelillos, disguises, surprises and games. In all the
states of the country, children, youths and adults,
take place and they enjoy to the they are of the traditional
music. Each region has its special way to celebrate
the Carnival. He/she knows a little how it is made in
each area. In the oriental states they are traditional
the calls Paschal Amusements, events carried out between
the time of Christmas and Carnival, where theatrical,
musical and choreographic manifestations converge. It
is famous the International Carnival of Carúpano,
in the state Sucre, due to their tradition, vistosidad
and tourist attractiveness. In the Zulia, the daubs
and the viejitos they conform the traditional parade
of disguises; in Trujillo, the Doll of the Calenda it
is the dance in which you/they make appearance the most
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organizes for the dates carnestolendas the famous Fair
of the Sun; in the state Carabobo, the Marses of Carnival
vibrate with amusements like: the She-ass, the Hammock,
the Cayman and the Scorpion. Another of the most popular
carnivals in Venezuela, takes place in The Callao, state
Bolivar. In this territory, the first native residents
from the British and French Antilles, left their primitive
rhythms of Kalinda and the first calipsos, goods that
you/they still accompany the processions of monumental
coaches and collective dances in the one that the madamas,
devils and mediopintos, place the sustained note of
the coloring and the racket. It knows some of the main
parties carnestolendas that take place in Venezuela:
Carnival of Carúpano
For more than one century, Carúpano gets dressed
of party to take place among coaches, music and dance,
the happiness of the Carnival.
The party of the Carnival dates of the times of Greek
and Roman who carried out them as pagan parties. In
Venezuela, the first of these parties was carried out
in 1873, during Antonio's government Guzmán Blanco
who intended to put an end to the constant aggression
of the carnival with water and to give him happens,
through the celebration, to a carnival with numerous
processions and parties of disguises. The carnival of
Carúpano receives every year to visitors' thousands
who attracted by the cheerful parties and processions,
they have faced an entire series of vicissitudes next
to the residents who refuse to allow to die this tradition.
Already for 1920, the wealthy families strolled in their
disguised automobiles while they distributed candies
and currencies, showing every year more elaborated processions.
This up to 1933, when a hurricane desolated the city
significantly and it sank it in a strong crisis. There
was a turn then to the calls carnivals of water in a
more intense way. Fortunately, at the end of the decade
of the fifty and I begin of the sixty, they were organized
carnival rehearsals with dances and even queens' elections.
In December of 1963, it was organized a meeting whose
function would be to rescue the famous parties and to
eradicate the game with water and attachés. Starting
from then, the parties were restarted, first in a modest
way and then evolving toward more elaborated entertainment
forms that they include coaches, dances, live music,
processions, fascinating to native and foreigners equally.
For it, to this celebration has been given the title
of International Tourist Carnival of Venezuela" |
The Fair of the Sun
The city of the gentlemen, like one knows Merida, he/she
takes place during the days of the carnival their internationally
famous Fair of the Sun. This fair had its origin in the
party that took place in honor to the Immaculate Concepción's
Virgin, which was carried out in the month of December,
but due to the rains decembrinas this was changed to February
and, in the year 1969 begin to be celebrated with the
carnivals of the town. In the Fair of the Sun they are
carried out taurine activities in the Monumental Square
Román Simple Eduardo, inaugurated in 1967, year
in that he/she acquired national and international fame.
In those days he/she takes advantage people's affluence
to carry out other such activities as congresses, cattle
exhibitions and concerts. Of course, in the city they
cannot lack the parades with their processions, disguises
and musical bands. At nights the streets fill with people,
some go to parties deprived in clubs and festejos living
rooms and other they come closer to some central square.
Merida also offers its visitors a fan of options with
natural beauties and attractions like the Venezuela of
Antier, the National Park Sierra Nevada, the Cable car
to the Pick Bolivar, the moors and lagoons.
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Carnival of the Callao
The fever of the gold to the south of Venezuela attracted
the population of The Callao a great quantity of immigrants,
especially of the British and French antillas, bringing
gets the calipso, musical gender that took its own features
in the country and became the center of the celebration
of the Carnival in the state Bolivar. In 1853, was founded
under the name of the Caratal, the current population
of The Callao, which would move later on to the banks
of the one Yuruari laughed, where it received the name
for which is known today in day.
The mining exploitation in the southerner state Bolivar
generated a mixture of cultures product of the immigration
that enriched the cultural traditions of the region, especially
the contribution afroantillano that brought the population
the calipso and the party of the Carnival. The calipso
didn't only go transplantado to the Guianese culture,
but rather it was transformed, taking characteristic own
as: their strong letters, the picaresque tone with which
narrates local events and the use of Venezuelan instruments
as the four and the maracas. He celebrates of the carnival
also took particular tones. To the rhythm of the calipso
they are carried out during several days processions of
disguises, in those that and dancers that parade accompanied
by the residents. This celebration has some own and characteristic
characters that are the Madamas, the Devils and the Mediopinto.
The Madamas is feminine characters that dress showy robes
to the style of the matrons from Guadalupe and Martinique,
besides colorful handkerchiefs knotted in the head. The
devils take clothes of red and black color, masks and
tridents that use to open step to the processions. The
Mediopinto is characters that stroll amid the parade,
alone or in group, with the face and the colored hands
of black. The celebration of the carnival and the interpretation
of the calipso has overflowed the frontiers of the population
of The Callao to become an expression of the culture of
the whole state Bolivar. |
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