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# Festivals around the World

# New Orleans Mardi Gras

**Mardi Gras **in New Orleans, America is a carnival celebration where people from
all over the world go to celebrate the end of Christmas and the New Year.

The festival starts on January 6^(th) of each year. There are many parades and parties.
Mardi Gras festival lasts for 2 weeks. There is a parade each day when people dress
up in colourful and beautiful clothes and walk through the streets so crowds of 
people can see them. The traditional colours mostly warn at this festival are Purple,
which represents ‘Justice’, Gold, ‘Power’ and Green, ‘Faith’.

**Running of the Bulls**

The **Running of the Bulls** happens in a town called Pamplona in Spain. This is
when crowds of people run from many bulls (usually twelve bulls). People don’t do
this to celebrate anything; they just do it for fun, trying not to get hurt.  The
first bull running is on July 7^(th) of each year. Participants must be 18 years
old, run in the same direction as the bulls.

Every year, between 200 and 300 people are injured during the run although most 
injuries due to falls and are not serious. Since 1910, 15 people have been killed
in Pamplona.

# Tomatina

**The Tomatina** is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each
year in the town of Bunol in Spain. Thousands of ripe Tomatoes are thrown at people
in the streets in exactly one hour. More than 150 000 Tomatoes are used by people
who come from all over the world.

The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night
before, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest. It is 
tradition for the women to wear all white and the men to wear no shirts. The festival
is in honour of the towns Saints and the Mother of Christ.

# Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling

**The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling Festival **happens every year on the Spring Bank
Holiday at Coopers Hill in Gloucester in England. From the top of the hill a round
of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled, and people race down the hill after it. The
first person over the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese. There
is no purpose to this festival; people just do it for fun, though many hurt themselves.

# Oktoberfest

**Oktoberfest** is a 16- to 18-day festival held each year in Munich, Germany, beginning
from late September to the first weekend in October. It is one of the most famous
events in Germany and the world’s largest fair, with some six million people attending
every year.

People drink lots of beer and eat lots of food such as Sausages and Chicken, whilst
singing and dancing to traditional German music.