CarnivalThe Uruguayan carnival celebrations are the longest in the world, extending throughout the month of February and most of March. For 40 days, street parades and scenarios unfold colorful entertainment and joy.
Carnival allows visitors to participate in a big party and, in turn, make contact with the spirit and character of this town. Begins the last Saturday in January with an inaugural parade along Avenida 18 de Julio, the main artery of the city of Montevideo, where all the groups with floats and giant puppets that accompany the artists. The other event is the parade of dazzling calls, that drum beat, moving in the sea lanes, which will evoke the encounter of black slaves who gathered outside the city in the nineteenth century. Tens of thousands of spectators vibrate with the force and colorful spectacle. Festivals criollas
Through different holidays and festivals held throughout the year across the Uruguayan territory, the most representative expressed the country's rural traditions. They are a clear example, the Fiesta de la Patria Gaucha in Tacuarembó, Creole Week in Montevideo Prado and Roosevelt Park in Gauteng.
Thus through historical camps are intended for the exaltation of the image of the gaucho, singing, music, payadas, the riders, the stove, cowboy skills and hundreds of stands, projecting the most authentic tradition rural area. Gaucho: In Uruguay, the gaucho is an important figure in national folklore as a symbol of freedom and individuality. The gaucho poetic representations describe it as the ideal of courage and independence. But beyond how they present music, literature, and painting, this character is an important symbol in Uruguayan culture. |
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