600 carnival celebrations in 21 countries

The database “folklore europaea” stores more than 5000 European traditional celebrations, in part also documented with videos. Among them are more than 600 carnival and Shrovetide customs from different areas of Europe – without claiming to be complete. The next click will take you to a list of all the relevant traditions in the database, arranged alphabetically by location. By using the appropriate filters, you can refine your search geographically by country and region or focus on specific locations. Only the places, regions or countries that lead to search results are offered as keywords. For specific questions, there is also a full text search option. If you want to visit the whole database with all the different annual festivals and customs, click here: folklore europaea