-NOTTING HILL,LONDON.
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that has taken place since 1966 on the streets of Notting Hill,London,England.Around one million people attend the carnival to see 50,000 performers.
-VENICE, ITALY.
The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter. The festival is world famous for its elaborate masks.
The festival held before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first festival of Rio date back to 1723.
The Nice Carneval is one of the world's major carnival events. It's held annually in February in Nice. Today the event attracts over a million visitors every year. The carnival spans a twoweek period in February.
Pancake Day is a festivity on Shrove Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent, that are the 40 days before Easter. On this day in UK there is the Pancake race, when people run with a pancake in a pan and when they run, they have to toss the pancake so they throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan. Its origin tells of a housewife, hearing the bell for the confession, dashing to the Church still holding her frying pan containing a pancake.The first run was in the year 1445. It is not known where the original start line was but the finish line was at the Church door.
