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What to Know About Carnival Season, Louisiana’s Biggest Celebration
Louisiana's 43-day Carnival season features over 80 parades and millions of throws, culminating on Fat Tuesday, a tradition rooted in Christian pre-Lenten celebrations.
- Carnival season in Louisiana begins with festivities before Ash Wednesday and runs through Fat Tuesday, marking the pre-Lenten period rooted in Christian and Roman Catholic traditions.
- Rooted in religion, Carnival serves as a period of feasting before Lent, with Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, marking the day before Ash Wednesday.
- This season New Orleans will host more than 80 parades featuring marching bands and multi-level floats, while krewes like Endymion estimate tossing more than 15 million throws including beads and doubloons.
- Residents are already preparing floats and costumes while bakeries report long lines for king cake, a brioche-style pastry often hiding a tiny plastic baby.
- Across the Gulf Coast, Carnival traditions include Mobile, Alabama's Mardi Gras and global events in Brazil and Europe, while regional customs like central Louisiana's Courir de Mardi Gras and Mardi Gras Indians vary widely.
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What to know about Carnival season, Louisiana's biggest celebration
Louisiana is preparing for its biggest celebration, Carnival season. The pre-Lenten period of festivities, which will last 43 days this year and concludes with Mardi Gras, is complete with fancy balls, massive parades, decedent king cake and costumed revelry.
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