What to do: festivals

Carnival!

The carnival in my city is one of the best of Spain.
We’re going to tell you some information about the history of the carnaval in my city:
The carnaval Started on 1815 after the independence war.
This event has centuries of history, in the century XIX we had very important comparsas riding in carriages or horseback.
The carnaval disappeared from 1936 to 1980 beccause the Civil war forbade the celebration.

Nowadays, we have a murgas contest . The murgas are groups of people who meet to make a humorous criticism about the city life singing in a setting, in Lope de Ayala theater. They dress up about a subject or a character or something like this. We have 42 murgas but every year we have more. The murgas are like this:

We have comparsas too. The comparsas are groups of people who dance in a march-past whith original costumes like that:

We have 40 comparsas with more than 3500 people who form the parade.

The people who don’t participe in murgas o comparsas dress up and have a party in the street with music.
The carnival in Badajoz is the participation of the Dressed-up people in the street.The carnaval is in February on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
In these days we have an importan celebration, its name is the burial of the sardine. This day is the end of the celebration and we go to ‘’San Roque’’ (street) on Tuesday to eat grilled sardines.

Written by:

María Benítez, Gema, Alba and Raquel