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the 1st beethoven is from plato is for the. players beethoven is for cars. is for playing beethoven 202250th anniversary here on. welcome to euro marks and the law because that's what you say here in cologne in germany during conover come it's been celebrated here and you leave the habits of years now and for those of you have not recognized me yet underneath this week it's
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a market could go and we're dedicating the whole show today to cottle of across europe will go to the famous carnival of venice and will travel to nice in france to watch the flower parade because each country has its own unique traditions hidden killer and human capital no one leaves tell without cost you at least a bit of make up all week even if you're just heading to the supermarket kill o'connell it's known for it's what partying in the streets parades no no life is but it's really about the city and lots of people take time off from work in order to join the farm round the clock and they committed revelle us start early in the morning so let's dive right in for all of you don't know quite what awaits you here are some facts on the cologne town of 00 so.
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the colorful season begins on november 11th and last still ash wednesday. in cologne the revelers a cold yet can and they shout out hot. during carnival some $300.00 carnival societies in cologne hold over a 1000 folds and sessions that include fun music costumes tongue in cheek speeches and traditional conover also. songs. the official st cannibal starts the thursday before ash wednesday and brings in the principal phase of the festivities the thursday belongs to the women revelers so men be where the women cut off the men's ties and give them a little kiss boots here to make up for it. this is the time of the
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conical parades they reached a climax with the rose monday parade a tradition dating back to 1823. today colognes parade is the biggest in germany the several 100000 spectators are rewarded with show is of candy. close famous carnival means fun for all of us every year it's all over an ash wednesday when lent 40 days of fasting begins. cutting up neckties as a rich addition here at the cologne cannibal it dates back to an era where women when not allowed to take part that's no fun and so they started to rebel and for one day they revoked the power of man by cutting off their ties and this ritual is upheld to this day so it's here for you men out there in kenya and if you go out
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today with a tie on don't expect it to look the same when you get back there are a lot of women in crazy costumes running around with scissors so watch out. now in comparison to the cologne connell the con of all in venice is a bit more and a bit more posh. once a year venice becomes even more magical than it normally is. lower and welcome for my perfect weekend coming to you from carnegie hall in venice. this tradition dates back to the middle ages but today's version represents the life in the 18th century i let myself get lost in the alleyway. look for me her answer any and everything open what are you pass a bill yes you're going to charm me.
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the center of carnival activities is sink mark square. people from all over the world gather here on john when they're. really to be very mad to where you're proud they be your family and think yeah sure yeah yeah well. one of the most important accessories during this time is of course of a mission mask. and i would like to learn more about this tradition. and for that i visit the studio of georgia. he's been working as a mask maker for over 30 years and shows me how to get started why are they worn how does this tradition start. just. for 15 day every people of the same. because with the mosque. you can
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know if you are reach or poor or if you are a. lady or a beautiful beautiful just that. the court jester and the playing doctor masks are the most popular. this is my shopping tip a mask as a souvenir. i make my way back to st mark's square navigating these narrow alleyways to venice can be quite challenging i think in this way you know maybe i think it might be this way just to put it. in the evening think marks for air is transformed into a big open air stage i decided to take in the sight at the grand on cafe quadri where i order something typically venetian i believe this peach flavored cocktail with prozac was invented in venice and is my colon area for
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a perfect week at. the 2nd day of my perfect weekend begins with a finn the nation must. feel i'm sorry about that little dumb thing bus below is one of venice is the oldest gondoliers. school in. the bakken now suddenly become very narrow and crowded this is my 1st finish and traffic jam. gondolas have a long history in venice and this is a little sun little basel it's a fog. this is the 1st. we make our way to the famous reale toll bridge on the grand canal taking a gondola ride as my activity tips for a perfect weekend. back on st mark's square a costume competition is underway for the day's winner has been chosen. now it's
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time for me to get into my own cost you a masquerade ball is on at the hotel down yelling this evening. fabio momo keeps an eye out to be sure all the guests are appropriately dressed. just a little history since it started the condom of venice go ahead until the end o. be 18th century till the end of the show republic. is stops in few of us and starts again 40 as we go in 1980 s. and the mind of the people bruce the carneval but great carnival of yanda will be 18th century. now my transformation can begin it takes the better part of an hour to get laced in and mask in the end i can't even recognise myself now i'm all dressed and ready today. for the party begins i test my new look on the streets of venice and draw the attention of several onlookers.
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back in the hotel danieli the master of ceremonies has begun receiving the guests. 2 professional dancer shows against the steps to an 18th century minuet. dancer routines is not that easy and constantly changing partners means you really have to keep on your toes but still this is my special tips for a perfect weekend. and this graphs up my perfect weekend from credible and join me again. working fighting european destinations and until then it's happened. oh well. i'm right in the midst of the hostile and bustle of the cologne carnival the costumes here are very funny and trays of
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a lot of them are just improvised and you can see that the revelers really enjoy putting the costumes together well and they show with a great sense of humor and no one takes things too seriously it's fun to just watch all the people go by and the funny costumes and believe me you won't get bored you might notice that a lot of people are wearing a red and white thing those are the colors of the colones coat of arms so talking about costumes so who are you know what are you wearing my name's lee joe i'm from cologne and i'm wearing your costume while grays and you who are you while you were in an hour i'm from cologne this fall and i'm wearing a frida kahlo coaster you're really looking stunning so and how important is comical for you well i like carnival a lot because people are pretty very friendly and very open to each other so i like
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i'm not. an action outsider but every year i'm getting more and more comfortable with convo 9 joy very much can you imagine a convo without a cause you. know that's like on a. so thank you so much and have a wonderful day yeah thank you bye bye and a different kind of tradition has existed for hundreds of years in the city of yet in croatia it's one of the european capitals of culture in 2020 so let's see what the city has. also add it's come out of all. this fun job or the bell ring is look at this intimidating and they should if they're going to drive out winter and everything evil these savage looking creatures have come from 10 different european countries for the carnival in chad lemire yeah croatia. the animal heads and real skins are like something from another era. search army. we
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might call our costumes are serves the fellows to whom we have to buy the skins we attach them to their dress with a bit of something else. this year the festivities are possibly i could 2020 the programme for the city's year as the european capital of culture created was once a key port an industrial town now it's redefining itself as a center of the arts the focus is on the porch with its elegant facades from the hub spoke monarchy right behind them the prefabs from the communist era the porsche embodies the spirit of the city. i like it like this view i like the sea i like the cranes you know it's a symbol of our city rekha was the famous harbor and always open to everything what's new and this culture thing that happened like european culture is just
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like continuing to. turn a small area is an actress doing reactor 2020 she offers alternative tours of the city. first she hits into the old town in ancient times romans all specifically roman soldiers were based here a special view it takes you back in time. for us it's opened just a few years ago. go. from there and we hear hear some music shows and theater work i also did hear one soul and it's called donkey hot. little stones from what used to be the biggest paper factory now form a fountain sculpture. seems to be in a constant state of change evidence of the city's checkered history can be seen
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everywhere but visitors have to like walking. curious leave this church stands between a police station and a prison. thing about this place is how the man who has millions are in jail it used to came here and then the very there are letters from down to them up like you know writing them something in the air. at the next corner it's time to go underground. now to truly earth like we have this tunnel it's 300 meters long and it's built like from the in the beginning of the 2nd world war to protect people from bonding and now it's a place where we can have some party you know the best parties are.
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in the 1920 s. radiator was an expose fascist italy and later occupied by the germans during world war 2 the city experienced extensive allied bombing science from that era survived right across from present day graffiti. up from the depths into the bustling marketplace any weekday morning shoppers can buy mostly regional produce here. seafood fresh from the adriatic is sold in the market all built in art nouveau style. religious characters expressed in an art installation. together colorful and a bit rusty it's a tribute to a famous painter. his name is warrior of the church and he did like this picture this is his work his work he's always making us. happy it has something child used in it so we like it the ship is one of his typical motives
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and you see there is a lot of different colors in it it is like. diversity. it is the star of the city which react to wants to convey the program ranges from the traditional to the evan god to neighborhood projects but 1st it's time to celebrate conical in style. here and get down there are so many parades everyone knows the famous rose monday parade of course there was more docks on soak with its hundreds of floats but how about the young fun bear parade which just passing by right now it proves that the cologne cardinal even has a romantic side young fun there was a general who according to legend fell in love with the shoots a leg is eat and that's a kind of a local romeo and juliet story also no happy ending so no kisses for them but
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luckily there are so many other plenty more ways to get yourself a bird seal which is a kid's hearing kilo so one way is to give it all to get to this year and those are the little flock of cases that are handed out in exchange for it is so one good cheer for each. well in the end no one's really can say. without flowers are just one little element of the clone carnival that in france at the carnival in east they play really a major role there are thousands of flowers road. into the public it's literally flower power. the carnival queen heads the flower parade that opens carnival in nice 16 lavishly decorated floats make their way through the city on the coaches are spreading the delicate aroma of the bright yellow mean also huge numbers of florist have been busy at work here. i'm relieved at the
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same time completely excited it's the 1st time i've seen the decorated floats in the parade and it's a fantastic intensive feeling. of all the many types of flowers the most is the alpha blossom. the flower girls hand bunches of them to the on lookers by the 1000. of the most is the region symbol it stands for the sun and the coat deserve. the night before the parade roars nicole barbie and her team work into the night decorating the floats the flowers have to be as fresh as possible and. the flower parade was 1st held in 1906 as publicity for the region's flower growers almost all the flowers come from nice and the surrounding area resigns and colors of the floats are decided long in
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advance. so that you folks as soon as the superstructures arrive we will sit down together one big team and everyone says what they think sometimes we argue. on occasion it can get pretty loud because we might have different ideas. on the morning of the flower parade the cost one last guy over the night's work she takes special care with the queen's float. oh look they've already brought the mimosas that's cool they'll go on the queen's float they've already opened up so handing them to the onlookers will be a joyous moment. oh i love these fragments. mimosas are the 1st topic of spring on the co-designer they start blooming in december in fact the mimosa originated in australia. it was 1st brought to southern
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france stung 200 years ago and it thrives in the warm and humid climate where. the blossoming twigs are always cut by hand so the gardeners have plenty to do until late march. 21 tons are passed out to the public during carnival as a spring greeting from the cold this is. but that's not the end of it after the parade the floats are planted and all the flowers handed out to the public down to the last blossom. the festival turns into a free for all. but nicole bobby has no regrets on the contrary. 7 it's
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a battle of the flowers everybody has to go home with ok we know that to be honest that's the nicest pot. after the battle is before the next battle soon nicole bobby and her team will have to get down to work and decorate the floats all over again because the parade of flowers passes through me a total of 5 times. so welcome back to the cologne konovalov behind me you can see the kona domo cologne cathedral conover years not just about costumes singing and so waving to the music it's also about a special type of beer yeah but the revelers cancer. culture alone for anyone who feels like having a tree these typical carnival specialties are just the thing they are cold here they are matson land and they're made of almonds so you can get on almost every corner one of those spikes and just as always carry
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a little bag of them along so for a snack and they really quite special. tiny tasty and time on a mountain the deep fried pastries sell like hotcakes during carnival for good raisins. but. it has to be crispy on the outside or not too soft on the inside because it has to absorb a lot. so you've got to have a mandolin your pocket it's our deal for carrying around with you during carnival it's very traditional. because by crew still make their own. those main ingredients are flour ground albums melted butter and mossy pan all mixed together with sugar and eggs. then cream in a shuttle from go into the mix. then it's left to stand overnight to make it fluffy
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and full of aroma. modernize the months of monday and got the name because they look like omens i'm contain lots of almonds. actually for the most part they consist of almonds monitor. the pastry is deep fried in oil heated to $170.00 degrees celsius the golden brown calorie bombs packed $500.00 kilo calories per 100 grams. i think everyone has to watch their own calories most revellers will be fasting during lent until easter anyway and i think they know why. it's not just mushroom bumblebee but. the treats used to be fried mostly in la but today in vegetable oil to many other staple cannibal traits the rule is the fatter the better.
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kind of the said good side carnival is the time before lent everywhere in the world where carnival is celebrated it's a time before you're not supposed to week certain things and above all things high in the fact that for an interesting out of it is a rich pastries and not only an essential part of carnival in cologne many of the german and european conifer capitals have traditional taste rates of their own all with different names in southwestern germany these curtain dough bowls are called norman foods or spanish cannibals feature born us dovi until. next week in the crazy days in italy the world famous carnival of venice has its taste to go lanny and check here to polish travelers enjoy provoking in the run land the same place pastries a cold woods and better. yet another pleasurable they all had the same problem before lent all of the groceries had to be used up so you might as well make something tasty out of them the company was like oh it was my. decline of the
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season kicks off in cologne on november the 11th and the appetite for carnival goodies increases from week to week. then when the christmas star have all been eaten people are asking when are we going to have much demand and again the answer is from new year's to con of all carnival in cologne just wouldn't be complete not good what's a man doesn't. sound with and it up and the baby about to swallow countless pops and bars think about what congo goes can take a break from the craziness outside on the street. well. during the craziness inside almost all of the gnomes bosses but if i did adopt their living out to accommodate all the level of knowledge is there in the fall say it's looking a bit different the god above says adult males taking college might take a bit to get used to it but believe that all that can go pretty quick and that was
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