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"FECC Hymn" with video from Ovar Carnaval
Description of our logo: from a little flower into a star, and finally into a smiling star. A smiling star does symbolize happiness, peace, success and to assume the mask of a film star or Carnival Royalty.

The world's largest, most diverse body dedicated to the promotion and preservation of people's festivals and parades.
Over 500 members and organizations representing 100 Cities in 52 countries support the work of the federation and its growing member network.
[Newsletter & Blog at CarnivalCities.ORG]

Dies Natalis 2015 

   Friday 25 - Monday 28 September
in Budva  Montenegro
Budva-Montenegro-FECC-2015.jpg

Info will also be given in Budva about 
The 2016 XXXVI  FECC Convention
4 - 12 June 2016 -
Cottbus, Germany
Host of the 2009 Dies Natalis & cultural capital of East Germany

Pinterest.com/
carnavalbz/bol-brac-split-croatia-2015-world-carnival-capital/
 
flickr.com/photos/fecc/collections/

youtube.com/user/CarnivalCitiesCom

Pinterest.com/carnavalbz/

symbol of adriatic

9th to 17th of May 2015 
XXXV  FECC Convention
in City of Bol on Brac  in Croatia
FOTOs @ Flickr.com CROATIA XXXV 2015 Carnival Cities Summit - Bol Island of Brac, County of Split, Region of Dalmatia, Croatia 

2014 34th FECC Convention in
Limassol  Cyprus
Photo Collection at flickr including

Opening Ceremony with dedication of FECC Monument
& Closing Ceremonies Limassol to Bol, Croatia
Visit the Pinterest accounts for Limassol & Bol, Croatia
Limassol Carnival  official
carnaval.com/cyprus Festival guide

Carnival Cities Summit
10 -18 May 2014

Cyprus lies at the crossroads of three continents, where East meets West and a new experience awaits for you under the sun every day. Limassol the largest City and port on the Mediterranean is famous for its pre-Lenten Carnival and the local warm hospitality which characterizes all of Cyprus. 

  
Carnival brings the past into the present for the future.
Relive some of our 21st century explorations below:
Yambol-Diana.jpgYambol Bulgaria
Coming from the remote past;
going to the future

DownloadHost of the 2013 XXXIII FECC Carnival Cities Convention
June 8 – 16 A Global Carnaval Summit http://www.kukerlandia.com/en/
Kukerlandia-invites-the-world-XXXIII-FECC-Convention.jpg  

kukerlandia.com/en/
CarnivalCities.Org/yambol-bulgaria-june-2013/

Pre-Lenten Carnival Dates: -Shrove Tuesday

2014 - March 1-4
2015 - February 14-17
2016 - February 6-9
2017 - February 25-28
2018 - February 10-13
2019 - March 2-5
2020 - February 22-25

2021 - February 13-16
2022 - February 26 - March 1
2023 - February 18-21
2024 - February 10-13
2025 - March 1-4

2026 - February 14-17
2027 - February 6-9
2028 - February 26-29
2029 - February 10-13
2030 - March 2-5

2031 - February 22-25
2032 - February 7-10
2033 - February 26 - March 1

Less than half of all Carnivals use these dates. Please verify before booking your travel times.
2013 Yambol

Video from 2009Video from 2009 Carnival Cities Congress in Montenegro

Cetinje-Neguska Serbia

Cetinje-Neguska

Faces From Carnival Cities...

Faces From Carnival Cities 2009

Prilep
Macedonia

26.MAY–03.JUNE.2012
 Prilep, Macedonia

  One of the Balkans most historic cities -for centuries at the crossroads between Venice, Dubrovnik and Thessalonica. Prilep is also a spiritual center and city of festivals when called from the labor of providing Europe its finest tobacco or whitest marble.
  Program [@ beta new FECC 		 Alexander-the-Great-in-Prilep.jpg
CarnivalCities.Org/prilep-macedonia-may-2012/

 

2011-Vrnjacka-Banja-FECC_Carnival-Cities-Summit.jpg
Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia
is the World Carnival City Capital Sat 28th May - Sun 5th June 2011

SERBIA: XXXI 2011 FECC Carnival City XXXI 2011 FECC Carnival City Congress Vrnjacka Banja Spa Resort in Serbia

youtube.com/user/CarnivalCitiesCom
-vrnjacki
karneval.com [official]

-FECC-Serbia News
 
2010 30th FECC Carnival City Congress hosted by Patras, Greece
Patras for over a century has produced the greatest Carnival in Greece. Yet this port city represents much more, not only the early history of our organization as  the host of the 1st FECC Congress but as the first city and gateway to the Peloponnesian Peninsula for three millenniums which is birthplace to: --- the ancient Greek culture, --- Dionysus the first deity of Carnaval ecstasy, & ---the Olympic World Games

2009 29th International FECC in Congress in

KotorKarneval.com
kotorkarneval.com/fecc/

TRADICIONALNI  KOTORSKI  KARNEVAL
pre-Lenten before Catholic Ash Wednesday
International  Budva Carnival
- at the beginning of May-INTERNATIONAL  SUMMER  CARNIVAL  OF  KOTOR
-at the beginning of August-

 Montenegro-2009-FECC-International-Congress.jpg

Kotor - Budva - Tivat – Tuzi 
Montenegro
A land of legend alive in Brittany's leading Carnaval

Ploermel-Carnival-Congress.jpg28th International FECC
 Carnival City Congress in
Ploermel,
metro center to the Porhoët or forest area in the Morbihan state of the former country of Brittany in France
May 24 - June 1, 2008
carnivalcities.com/france

carnivalcities.com/france

Convention Program

carnaval.com/france

Fotos @ flickr

Video @ youtube
2008 Carnival City Capital
Official FECC-Ploeremel Carnaval Web Site @orange.fr/ carnaval.ploermel/
ploermel.com/search?/carnaval official city site & visitor info
The pearl of Sahel captivating visitors for 3 millenniums
carnivalcities.com/tunisia : News and fotos from our historic Carnival City April 2007 Carnival City summit from Sousse, Tunisa ---"the pearl of the cosmos" Our first trip to Africa and the Arab world at the crossroads of civilizations. Also carnaval.com/tunisia
aoussou.org
official Carnival site

The historic 27th
FECC Reunion April 21 - 29, 2007  
in Sousse Tunisia

Tunisia foto guide

novi-turist.hr/

World Carnival City of the Year 2006

2006 26th International FECC Congress in
Novi Vinodolski / Rijeka / Opatia /Matulji
  in the Kvarner region of Croatia
under the Patronage of the President of the Republic STJEPAN MESIĆ
Arrival date:  Saturday 13 May
Departure date: Sunday 21 May
map

kvarner.hr

Collection of Flickr Fotos
25th International FECC Convention - Nadur | Gozo | Malta.

 

2005 JUBILEE XXV FECC Congress
City of Nadur on the Island of Gozo,
Republic of Malta 

  
 

2004

 Pernik, Bulgaria
Surva.org official festival site by city of Pernik a former mining region 20 minutes from the booming capital of Sofia
carnivalcities.com/bulgaria
NEW Bulgaria Festivals & Carnivals
aforum for archives & current events of Carnival City members of the Federation of European Carnival Cities-Bulgaria
carnaval.com/bulgaria  || Travel Tools
cityguides by the FECC media partner:
2003 23rd International FECC Convention in Ovar, Portugal
 

 

2002 22ª International FECC Congress in Krakow/Zakopane   
  (Poland)     || fotos

2001 21ª International FECC Congress in Pushkin/St. Petersburg   
(Russia)   || fotos

2000 20ª International FECC Congress in Santa Cruz de     
Tenerife, the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
CarnavalTenerife.es/ || fotos || Report

 1999 19th International FECC Congress in  Dubrovnik (Croatia)
visitdubrovnik.hr || fotos

1998 18th International FECC Congress in Strumica (Macedonia) StrumickiKarneval.com/ || fotos

 1997 17th International FECC Congress in Aruba (West Indies)
  || fotos Aruba again hosts the 2012 Congress

 199616th International FECC Congress in Maribor/Ptuj (Slovenia)
|| fotos

Find a more complete list at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_European_Carnival_Cities
 
Strumica-2014.jpg

Dies Natalis
Sept 26-29 2014
Strumica 
Macedonia

More at 
Carnivalcities.org
File:Coat of arms of San Marino.svgCarnivalCities.Org/sept-2013-dies-natalis-san-marino

Dies Natalis 05. OCT-07.OCT.2012
32nd  Dies Natalis of FECC was held on the Island of Gozo, Malta where you will discoer a rich cultural & historical heritage and remarkable sea. PROGRAMME
 FECC GALA DIES NATALIS
2011 Pernik, Bulgaria
  Landskrona. Sweden 2010 

Dies natalis is Latin for "Natal Day" or "Day of Birth" as this event celebrates our 30th birthday!

The 2009 FECC DIES NATALIS
 from 2009-10-23 till 2009-10-2525.10.2009
in Cottbus, Germany

carnivalcities.com/germany/
2008 Houffalize, Ardennes  in Belgium
[MORE @ FECC-Belgium] 		Houffalize Carnaval @ houffalize.be
The Carnival of the Sun is usually held at the beginning of August in		 LE CARNAVAL DU SOLEIL

5-6-7th October 2007 
--- Ptuj -- Slovenia Ptuj is Slovenia's oldest town, widely acclaimed as its most scenic, and also home the oldest festival tradition in the country;
---the pre-Lenten Kurent style of Carnival. 

Ptuj: Carnival Capital of Slovenia

Carnival Brochure [pdf] || Dies Natalis Brochure [pdf]
Image server || Ptug City Official Site
2006 Zevenaar,  Netherlands carnivalcities.com/netherlands
CarnevaleDiPutignano.it

2005 Putignano, Italy carnivalcities.com/italy

2004 Ptange Luxembourg Schengen carnivalcities.com/luxembourg
2003 Leuven/Louvain (Belgique/Belgium) || www.fecc.be
CarnevaleDiIvrea.it

2002 Gala Dies Natalis in
 Ivrea/Turin (Italy)
 Battle of the Oranges

2001 Gala Dies Natalis in Purmerend (Netherlands) http://feccnederland.nl/
 ri-karneval.com.hr

2000 Gala Dies Natalis in Rijeka/Opatija (Croatia)

http://organizacioncarnavalnacionaldecarnavales.org/
FECC VORSTAND/ BOARD
 Federation* International CarnivalCities.com
[ more homepages]

Henry F. M. van de Kroon, President

P.O. Box 6615 NL-1005 EP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: (31)20 6168047 • Fax: (31)20 6162866

* At the 2013 FECC Convention the membership voted to allow the E in FECC to mean "Every" as well as European by virtue of its vote to give full voting privledges to all admitted members. At the 2004 FECC Convention the membership voted to rename itself the Federation of European Carnival Cities which translates more appropriately than "Foundation" into the large family of FECC languages.

Three Cheers:

YASSOU  YASSOU  YASSOU!

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