Haiti’s Rara Peasant Carnival
Rara is not just one festival, many towns stage their own Rara celebrations, usually staring in the countryside and heading towards town picking up merry revellers on the way.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Festival
Golden Shears Sheep Shearing Festival
You can’t really talk about New Zealand without mentioning sheep, and this festival is where all the sheep, and all those whose lives revolve around them, get together for a competition and a bit of a knees-up.
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Giants of Douai Festival
Make a trip to Douai, in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France in early July and you’re likely to bump into a thoroughly ordinarily named couple, Monsieur and Madame Gayant, who just happen to be over twenty feet tall!
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Pilgrimage to the Virgin of the Valley
In December the residents of Catamarca celebrate the annual festival in honor of the Virgin of the Valley. Thousands of people participate in the celebrations and some come from hundreds of miles away to celebrate the special event.
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Lady Marmalade: Ivrea Orange Festival
Every year Ivrea awakes one winter morning in February with an incredible weight of expectation. Usually calm, the town quickly becomes a cauldron of sensory overload that sweeps along everyone gathered there for its popular annual carnival, the Orange Festival.
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