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№1. Oktoberfest - Germany

Oktoberfest - the largest folk festival in the world, which gathers about 6 million visitors per year.. 

Oktoberfest held in Munich in mid-September - early October.
Oktoberfest organizes and conducts the administration of Munich. 

The festival involved only the Munich breweries that brew for him oktoberfestovskoe special beers of 5.8-6.3%. 

Holiday features a large number of beer tents and a variety of attractions.

The first Oktoberfest took place on October 12, 1810 in honor of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) and Princess 

Therese of Saxony-Hildburghauzskoy.

The tradition of the Oktoberfest: the opening day, at exactly 12:00, the mayor uncorks barrel of beer.

This symbolic action launches a "beer marathon." Then, through the main streets of the city begins to move a festive procession. 

At the head of it - «Munchner Kindi» - symbol of the city - a young girl with a big bell in hand riding on a decorated horse.

№2. Day of the Dead - Mexico

Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead) - one of the brightest and most unusual festivals in the world, dedicated to the memory of 

the dead. Day of the Dead is held annually on 1 and 2 November in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador. 

The tradition dates back to the Mayan and Aztecs, who brought gifts to the goddess Mictecacihuatl and constructed a wall with the image of skulls

 - tsompantli. According to legend, these days the souls of dead relatives visit home.

The Day of the dead people create altars in honor of the deceased from the sugar skulls, flowers, favorite foods and beverages of the past, 

visit the graves, make offerings. And as arranged Carnival, people dress up in scary costumes and face paint, mimicking a mask of the skeleton,

 and grandiose procession through the streets.

In 2003, the festival was included in the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

No. 3. Brazilian Carnival - Brazil

Brazilian Carnival - an annual festival in Brazil. He held forty days before Easter and marks the beginning of Lent. 

During Lent Roman Catholics must abstain from all bodily pleasures, for example, the consumption of meat. 

Carnival, which took place on the feast of the Portuguese Carnival is considered an act of farewell to the pleasures of meat.
The largest folk festival of the country has been held for nearly two hundred years.

Today, Carnival has become a battle of the samba schools, vibrant extravaganza in stunning costumes, grandiose theatrical performance.

Total 14 dance schools traditionally take part in the procession. Selects the King and Queen of Carnival. 

Procession of the schools on average lasts about two hours and is a whole view on a given topic. 

The jury selects the best ten parameters, the winners received prizes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

That is why each new performance dancers preparing for a year.

Carnival lasts for 4 days and 4 nights, take part in it as a speaker or as an audience of about one million people every year.

№4. Burning Man Festival - USA

Burning Man - an annual eight-day festival is held in the Black Rock Desert, USA.

It is held the last Monday in August to the first Monday in September.

The organizers called the event an experiment to create a community of radical self-ｅxpression, completely rely only on themselves. 

A week in the desert, established contemporary art, often fantastic shapes. Some of them burned to the creators of the festival ends. 

There are hundreds of cars go very improbable appearance, many participants go dressed as characters of art, animals, objects, and so on.

Arriving in the desert artists give performances, a variety of popular dances. Several dance floors of DJs around the clock.

However, each participant is responsible for their own livelihood and purification of the desert from any trace of their stay.

The first burning of a small wooden man was in 1986, while another one of San Francisco's beaches, a small group of friends. 

Subsequently, the number of participants has expanded and moved to its present location in the desert in Nevada. 

Every year the number of visitors to the festival is growing, in 2015 it was attended by about 70 thousand people.

№5. Festival of colors Holi - India

The most colorful celebration in the world - Holiday Holly - takes place in India. Holly - a centuries-old national tradition. 

As Russian Easter, religious holiday holly has no exact date can be carried out in February or March, the main condition - the full moon.

At Holly people welcome spring, pays tribute to the ancient gods, and just have fun. This colorful action symbolizes the victory of good over evil. 

It all starts with a bonfire, the sacred flame which "burns" the evil, and then the fun begins. People are thrown in the air and ink on each other.

The incredible energy of joy and happiness that prevails at the festival, is so contagious that today celebrate it in many countries.

№6. Tomato Festival - Spain

La Tomatina - annual festival, held in the Spanish town of Buñol in the last week of August. 

Tens of thousands of participants come from different countries to take part in a tomato fight.
The festival lasts a week and includes musical numbers, fair, parade, dances and fireworks. 

The night before the tomato fight is a contest for the preparation of the paella. The population of Buñol is 9 thousand.

 Man, but during the festival come here to 40 thousand. Tourists. 

Housing for all tourists in Buñol not enough, so many participants arrive by train or bus from Valencia, which is 38 km away. 

In preparation for the festival shop owners close their big plastic shields windows of their institutions, to protect them from the coming madness, 

during which used about 150 tons of tomatoes.

The first event La Tomatina begins at 10 o'clock in the morning. Many trucks laden tomatoes entering the central square Plaza del Pueblo. 

Under the rules of the festival begins only after someone climb on a wooden pole in two storeys high, pre-lubricated with soap. 

Upstairs daredevil expects ham. The signal for the beginning of the battle is a shot of water cannons. During battles each member for itself. 

The rules require that in order to avoid injuries tomatoes must be crushed before throwing.

The chaos lasted exactly one hour, after which water cannons make a second volley, giving a signal to the end of the battle. 

After this point, you can no longer throw tomatoes. After the battle, the walls of the surrounding houses become red and tomato slush on the

 pavement reaches the ankles. In the process of cleaning the remains of fire trucks washed tomatoes with water, which is supplied from 

the Roman aqueduct, passing to the north of the city. Participants are washed in the river, or from the hoses doused the locals.

The festival is held in honor of the patron of the city of St. Louis Bertrand and Our Lady of the protector. Start a tradition takes since 1945.

It is alleged that the first battle of tomatoes took place between friends, during a fight at the festival. 

Since 1980, the tomatoes for the holiday are supplied by the city authorities, and in 2002, the central tourism bureau assigned festival

 in Buñol international status.

№7. Sun Festival - Peru

Peru is famous for a number of mysterious objects: Machu Picchu, the Nazca desert, the sun gate, traces of the ancient Inca civilization.

In June, there is a central event of the year - an ancient celebration of Inti Raymi or Festival of the Sun. 

The holiday, which goes back to the times of the Incas, was revived in the 20th century and is now the second most popular festival in South America. 

Feast of the Inti Raymi - the ancient Inca ritual worship of the sun, the main god of the Incas.

It is a sign of the onset of the Incas, the crown and the imminent harvest, which, if they so wish gods would plentiful.

To enjoy the colorful spectacle of the popular folk festival in this memorable day, 24 June, in the city of Cusco attracts thousands 

of tourists from different corners of the world.

№8. Lantern Festival - China

In the 15th day of the 1st lunar month in China celebrate the feast of lanterns (Yuansyaotsze), marks the end of the Spring Festival, 

or the traditional New Year.
This is one of the oldest festivals in China. According to some reports, the festival began to celebrate even 180 years BC. e.

On this day, the Chinese decided to gather with family for dinner together and watch the fireworks start burning lights in the sky.

The main holiday colors - red, a symbol of well-being and success.

Every year for the holiday are made thousands of different lights, many of which are true works of art. 

Those who came from the ancient times, paper lanterns, the walls of which are covered with all sorts of drawings on mythological theme,

 or just sketches in national style. These flashlights are rotated by the action of moving air inside it, which creates a burning candle inside.

Required attribute of Chinese holiday - a cacophony of sounds made by various rattles, gongs and drums, among which highlights the deafening 

sounds of enormous drums Taiping-gu, which is also called "the great drums of peace."

Also on the city streets are arranged dances involving dragons collected from lanterns, performances on stilts and other traditional Chinese dances.

№9. Carnival of Venice - Italy

The Carnival of Venice (Carnevale di Venezia) - the oldest of all the carnivals of the planet and one of the most famous in the world. 

This costume masquerade ball held annually in Venice.

Traditional Venice Carnival lasts more than two weeks - the date of the opening depends on the start of the Catholic Lent and ends it 

on Wednesday of the first week of Lent.

The first documented mention of the carnival belongs to 1094.

In Christian times the church used this ancient celebration for Christians preparing for Lent, so that people can have fun enough. 

To equalize all the social differences between the inhabitants of Venice during the carnival people wore costumes and masks.
On 12 days in Venice with its streets and squares, canals, gondoliers and bridges transformed into a giant stage with scenery for one of the most

 grandiose and dazzling carnivals in the world. Merriment, non-stop music, sleepless nights, a parade of ornamented boats and gondolas 

on the Grand Canal, and another mask, a thousand masks - all this magical medieval Venetian Carnival celebration. 

Carnival ends with a parade of costumes, spectacular fireworks in front of Piazza San Marco, burning straw man - a pagan ritual, 

symbolizing the renewal of nature, and mass dancing at the San Marco Square.

A ringing of the church bells of San Francesco della Vigna announces the beginning of Lent.

Every year Venice Carnival attracts more than 500 thousand. Man.

№10. Dirt Festival - South Korea

Marine Mud Festival in Boryeong (South Korea, on the beach Daecheon) was first held in 1998.

You can get covered head to toe in mud, with impunity, to dip his face in the dirt next to a stranger standing by a neighbor or a neighbor, 

enough to fool around with your friends, and at the same time to take a mud bath and take a picture for memory.

Mud games will benefit your body and soul. Dirt is not simple, but very useful for health, and its composition is replete with various minerals.

This mud is used not only in medicine for treatment, but also in cosmetics for the production of various anti-aging creams and masks. 

Therefore, the mud festival is held here not only as an incredible spectacle, but also as an advertising mud baths themselves.

Today this event attracts about three million people every year.