Home Carnival 2024: The foot parade with ghostly images

It’s in progress and the celebration. Thousands of visitors are partying in every corner of town… Today and tomorrow the events at the Patriot Carnival, with the two major parades, will take place in which more than 60,000 carnivalists, members of the 181 crews of the Hidden Treasure will take part. Patras lives in intense and unabated carnival rhythms, with thousands of carnivals and visitors enjoying moments of fun and carelessness, which will last until Sunday evening, March 17, when the closing ceremony and burning of the carnival king will take place. The first big parade began at 18:30 this afternoon. This parade is called a podarat, because the structures and tanks of the crews of the “Hide Treasure” are not presented, but only the members in their uniforms, which are illuminated carnivally. A spectacular sight with the lights, colors, fast flow and joy to give a unique glow, but also special splendor on the night of the last Saturday of the patriotic carnival. The second big parade will begin tomorrow at 14:00 noon and will present an impressive panorama of colors, imagination, inspiration and creation. At the top of the parade will be the folk music and will be followed by the chariots of the patriotic carnival, which were built by the artists of the carnival workshop of the Municipality of Patras. In particular, they will parade the chariots, “Propopompos”, “King Carnival – The King of Globalization”, the chariot queen with the queen of the patriotic carnival 2024, Georgia Sakka, the flower chariot, the “Smile” inspired by the old silent cinema, the “Dances of Circus”, John Lennon with the children of flowers and peace, as well as the chariots of the carnival of the young, “Baby Carnival”, “Travel with imagination”, “Karousel”, “Fengari”, “Skylaki”, “Sardipodousa”, “Inguana” and “Chirko”. Next, the approximately 60,000 carnivalists, members of 181 crews of the “Hide Treasure”, will march, accompanied by their own tanks or large wheeled structures. the end of the great Sunday parade will parade the chariots of the chocolate war, with the chocolates keeping the traditional custom alive.