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Colombia celebrates 213 years of national independence with Armed Forces parading in Bogota. IMAGES
It's the second day of Rio de Janeiro's glittering carnival. The sequin-studded festival kicked off on Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 hit Brazil. IMAGES
Barranquilla, Feb 22 (EFE).- The Battle of Flowers, a grand parade attended by more than 600,000 people, kicked off the four-day-long annual Barranquilla carnival, the second-largest in the world, on Saturday.One of the most popular festivals in the country, the carnival - declared by UNESCO as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2003 - dates back to the 1880s.The Battle of Flowers, one of the biggest draws of the carnival, dates back to 1903, and was aimed at celebrating the end of the One Thousand Days War in Colombia. (Camera: RICARDO MALDONADO). SHOT LIST: THE PARADE OF THE BATTLE OF FLOWERS DURING THE FIRST DAY OF THE CARNIVAL OF BARRANQUILLA, IN BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA.
Several thousand spectators gather in the streets of Mainz, in western Germany, for the traditional Rose Monday, famous for its parade floats and the highest point of the Carnival season. IMAGES
Glittering in fanciful, flesh-flaunting costumes, thousands of Brazilians bouncing to sultry samba beats strut their stuff as Rio de Janeiro kicks off its famed carnival parade competition. IMAGES