hello steemit I bring you an interesting article about the carnival in my country. This celebration is one of the most festive of venezuela. , before I will give you a small concept.

The Carnival refers to a specific date, celebrated after Christmas and ending on the Tuesday of Carnival, which is the last Tuesday before the beginning of Catholic Lent, a preparation for Holy Week. The Carnival period is also known by the French term mardi gras, 'fatty Tuesday', 'fat Tuesday' or fat.

Now that we understand this, I will tell you how some of the most significant are Carnival of Carúpano For more than a century, Carúpano has dressed up to celebrate between carriages, music and dance, the joy of Carnival. The celebration of the Carnival dates from the times of Greeks and Romans, who realized them like pagan celebrations. In Venezuela, the first of these festivities was held in 1873, during the government of Antonio Guzmán Blanco, who set out to end the constant aggression of the carnival with water and give way, through the celebration, to a carnival with many comparsas and costume parties. The Carnival of Carúpano receives thousands of visitors each year, who, attracted by the festive parties and comparsas, have faced a series of vicissitudes with the residents, who refuse to let this tradition die. The Fair of the Sun The city of knights, as Mérida is known, celebrates its internationally famous Feria del Sol during the carnival days. This fair had its origin in the festival that was celebrated in honor of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, which was held in the month of December, but due to the December rains it was changed to February and, in 1969 it begins to celebrate with the carnavale Carnival of Callao The gold rush to the south of Venezuela attracted a large number of immigrants to the town of El Callao, especially from the British and French Antilles, bringing with them the calypso, a musical genre that took on its own traits in the country and became the center of the celebration of the Carnival in the Bolívar state. In 1853, it was founded under the name of Caratal, the current population of El Callao, which would later move to the banks of the Yuruari River, where it received the name by which it is known today. The mining exploitation in the southern Bolívar state generated a mixture of cultures product of the immigration, that enriched the cultural traditions of the region, especially the Afro-Antillean contribution, that brought to the population the calypso and the celebration of the Carnival.http://www.eluniversal.com/component/cmp-modal-foto/492948.shtml http://www.eluniversal.com/component/cmp-modal-foto/492951.shtm http://imgs.globovision.com/in1HmVCsx5DWvZAXxrbTrFnh9Cw=/847x0/smart/bd3dcd88ba0545878b08d51abc52b210.