Flower parade | Carnival 2023

Flower parade - Carnival - French Riviera

Lights Parade Lavandou 2023 - Corso Bormes 2023 - Corso Cavalaire February 2023 - La Londe March 2023 - Sainte-Maxime 2023 - Nice Carnival 10-26 February 2023 - Menton, 89° Lemon Festival 11-26 February 2023 - Fête du mimosa à la Napoule 2023

Bormes-les-Mimosas - February 2023

Flower parade Lavandou - summer 2023

Lavandou Lights Parade is a dozen floats decked out in multicolored lights alongside majorettes, musicians, brass bands and troubadours that parade from 9 p.m. on the Lavandou seafront and end with a magnificent fireworks display on the main beach in the city center

Nice Carnival. "Roi des Trésors du Monde" - 10-26 February 2023

La Londe-les-Maures Carnival - March 2023

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....