The Most Popular Festivals In The World

The Most Popular Festivals In The World

1-Festival of Colors (India)

Indians celebrate the arrival of spring with enthusiasm. The festival of colors is the biggest indicator of this. Throughout the festival, people enjoy freedom and fun, and colorful paints are used by other people. On the first full moon of every March, you can see people wearing white clothes on the streets and throwing colorful powder and liquid paint on each other! According to conventional wisdom , this painting symbolizes "the awakening of nature". It is worth mentioning that during the festival everyone goes on a daily life in a painted color and believes that it brings luck!

2- Ivrea Orange Festival (Italy)

In this festival, which is based on a medieval story, the participants are dressed in medieval clothes and are only armored with oranges to revive an ancient war. At the Orange Festival in Ivrea, Italy, held every February the participants are throwing tons of oranges together.

3-La Tomatina Fest (Spain)

Everywhere in the town of Buñol in Valencia, the tomatoes are in red. "La Tomatina" is held annually on the last Wednesday of August in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain. Approximately 40 thousand people attend the festival. The Tomato Festival, held in Spain's Valencia region, dating back to the anti-Franco demonstrations of 1945, attracts tens of thousands of people from various parts of the world every year to Bunol Village.

4- Oktoberfest (Germany)

It is a festival that takes place in the Munich city of Bavaria, Germany, last two days of September and the first days of October every year. This festival, which is attended by some 6 million people every year, is the most famous in Munich. The festival traditionally takes 16 days, including the first Sunday of October. After the unification of the Germans, the program of the festival has been changed and if the first Sunday of October coincides with 1 or 2 of the month, the duration of the festival is extended to the third of the month, the German Unification Day. There are also various other celebrations in other countries of the world under the name of Oktoberfest celebrations.

5- Boryeong Mud Festival (Korea)

The 'Traditional Mud Festival' held in Boryeong, South Korea for the first time in 1998, attracts millions of visitors. The festival is held in the summer. Participants are entertained by entering the pools filled with mud which are rich in minerals. The Mud Festival, held in Boryeong, South Korea, starts in the second week of July each year and lasts for one week.The muds collected from various parts of the city are brought to the Daecheon Coast, where the area called "Mud Experience Land" is created and after the required mud has been collected, the festival area is prepared after the scenes and columns established. This festival has no historical roots.

6- Burning Man Festival (USA)

The festival organized in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, where about 50,000 hedonists join every summer, is taking an interesting scene. From the opera to the theater, from sculpture to music, the festival captures the ritual of burning the wooden man sculpture on the final day. The festival, one of the craziest events in the world, brings together the most crazed artists and revolutionaries from different angles of the world. Artists and social revolutionaries from all over the world are participating in the cultural events that they can express themselves, based on the harsh conditions of the desert in the city, which has been established for a week. The festival is held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada a week before the Americans' Labor Day. Participants resist the desert conditions for seven days, reaching intrinsic freedom. Finally, the festival is ended by burning the Human Body and the Boardman, who represents his patterns.