THE CARNIVAL

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THE CARNIVAL
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The firsts signs of carnival in the world date
back to 4000 years ago. The Egyptians started to
celebrate this period of feast with dance, songs
and gifts offered to Isis, the goddess of
fruitfulness and life.In ancient Greece,
instead, the carnival took place in two different
periods, winter and spring, as a celebration of
Bacchus.
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Also the Romans celebrated carnival and they even
built temples on this occasion. The tradition of
carnival was then passed down spread in all the
Italian peninsula.Centuries later the Roman
Catholic Church, which couldnt prevent the pagan
celebrations from taking place, succeeded in
turning the Carnival into a catholic celebration.
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• Now the Carnival is a really happy moment of the
  year. In many towns or villages a lot of people
  work all year to build carnival floats for the
  parades. The floats also compete with with each
  other and the winners are awarded at the end of
  the celebrations. Every year thousands of people
  attend these parades and competitions.

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Nowadays young people do not celebrate Carnival
in the same way as in the past teenagers do not
dress up, but only children like to disguise as
their favourite cartoon heroes.