Fasching Parade (February 22, 2007)
Complete Set of Photos
Pretty much every country has some form of Carnival, like Mardi Gras in the USA, or Carnival in Brazil, etc. Germany has Fasching, which is technically a couple of months long, but it only really celebrated for a week in February. There are huge parades in certain cities, like Cologne and Mainz. There is even a day, left over from some tradition, called Weiberfastnacht. On this day, women can (and do!) go around with scissors and cut off the ties of men!
Stuttgart is not one of the big Carnival cities (it's more in the Rhine area), but there was still a pretty good sized-parade that went through the whole downtown area with a few thousand people watching it. After my C++ course, Isaac, Gonzalo (Chile) and I went to go see it. I forgot my camera, unfortunately, so all the pictures were taken by Isaac Smith.
Complete Set of Photos
Pretty much every country has some form of Carnival, like Mardi Gras in the USA, or Carnival in Brazil, etc. Germany has Fasching, which is technically a couple of months long, but it only really celebrated for a week in February. There are huge parades in certain cities, like Cologne and Mainz. There is even a day, left over from some tradition, called Weiberfastnacht. On this day, women can (and do!) go around with scissors and cut off the ties of men!
Stuttgart is not one of the big Carnival cities (it's more in the Rhine area), but there was still a pretty good sized-parade that went through the whole downtown area with a few thousand people watching it. After my C++ course, Isaac, Gonzalo (Chile) and I went to go see it. I forgot my camera, unfortunately, so all the pictures were taken by Isaac Smith.
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