Korça celebrates this Saturday the 16th edition of the carnival, which also coincides with the opening of the tourist season.
The event started since morning and will culminate with activities until dinner. As reported, 30 different groups from the country but also from other countries, such as North Macedonia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, will participate.
“The special feature of this year is its massiveness, the fact that 30 artistic groups will participate, the main ones are Albanians, but there will be participants from neighboring countries, including Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. What is currently happening is a small walk in the Pedonales area to arrive at the city’s Cathedral, where the big scene will be tonight.
The symbolism of this walk is the fact that all citizens should be given the message that today is a holiday and that there is one more reason to go out into the city, even in the characteristic alleys of Korca, wearing a costume and a mask. “, said the journalist.
Carnivals began to be celebrated in Korça before the 1940s, a period in which the cultural life in this city was diverse. Korça is one of the first cities that reawakened the carnival tradition by creating the Carnival Association in 1992 as part of the Albanian National Carnival Association.
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