Flower parade | Carnival 2019-2020

Flower parade - Carnival - French Riviera

Bormes-les-Mimosa Carnival - "100 ans" - 23 February, 2020

Flower parade Lavandou - "Eldorado" - 08 March, 2020

Lavandou Flower parade includes twenty floats decorated with thousands of natural flowers alongside cheerleaders, musicians, fanfares and troubadours with the famous battle of flowers in closing. Saturday, March 16, from 10h to 12h: creative workshop for children - from 14h30 and 16h30: visit of floats under construction - from 18h30 to 21h00: video projection in sound and light . Sunday, March 17 (entrance fee in corridor or stand) at 2:30 pm, official opening of the Corso Fleuri and parade of floats - 4:30 pm Battle of Flowers - 6:30 pm reward of the most beautiful floats.

Nice Carnival | King of Fashion | February,15 - 29, 2020

La Londe les Maures Carnival - 07 March, 2020

Carnival : history and tradition

The flower carnival originates from Egypte and Greece. These countries coming from paganism used to celebrate respectively the Apis bull and the Bacchus bull, they were being immolated while people danced and were screaming of joy. Before that, a human victim replaced the bull. From 1420 the carnival consisted of a bull adorned of feather and dazzling objects and clothes, and a child, king of the butchers that was perched on its back. This practice was abolishes in 1790 and restored in 1805. After that, the king of the butchers was replaced by a float full of young girls wearing mythologycal ceremonials of Love (hence the Queen's float). Then the Corso got its inspiration from Italy with floats decorated by leaves and branches, pulled on the main street by participants allowed to make fun of the local key figures. From 1950 the corsos in the South became a tourist show with majorettes, bands, flower battles, paying stand, tractors, amusement rides... losing all their villager and religious roots....