Ovar carnival has farrapa and guided tours – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

First the news. There are guided tours for those who want the center of the carnival operations, ie the Ovar Carnival Village in operation in the afternoons of 5 and 6 February. The Farrapa Night is a first and is a spontaneous parade where everyone can show their disguises. The first thousand registered participants are entitled to a surprise gift that farrapada scheduled for February 5, from 22h. Animation and joy are the rules and revelers parade may individually or in groups. As for promotion, Vareiro Carnival has a stand just for you in FITUR – International Tourism Fair of Madrid between 20 and 24 this month. There will be cabins, as last year, but another 150 seats, comprising 4,150 sites on the bench. The budget is around 500,000 euros.

Ovar already smells like Carnival and the kick is given on Saturday at 21.30, a show that reinterprets the world of masks and that includes a arruada of gigantones and stubborn and involves over 100 people from the community. A time led by the English conductor Tim Steiner. The concentration takes place in front of the Art Centre and goes to the Republic Square. The festival lasts until February 9. The masquerade debuted last year and not exit. A tradition that recovers the January 30, at Café Progress, by 22pm, and will have the time songs played by Fun Swing Orchestra. Night Magic, evening where thousands of people gather on the streets of Ovar, masked or not, happens in Carnival’s Day eve, February 8. Here is moving points for various audiences and music until dawn. The parades take place when it should be in the fat Sunday and Tuesday of Carnival, 7 and 9 February. Avenida Sá Carneiro then be trodden several times for 2,000 extras 14 carnival groups, six groups of runway-four samba schools

The arrival of kings John. – The Gingerbread Lot of Ovar and D. Sofia – The Patron Saint of Tea takes place on 24 January in a parade of legal jokes, from 14.30. The king is John Fernando, a founder of Charanguinha samba school. The Queen is Sofia Barbosa, the Charanguinha battery of honor, and is the first pregnant queen in the history of Vareiro Carnival.

The Carnival has no limit of age and the 11th edition of the Senior Carnival is scheduled for the afternoon of 28 January, with band and snack offered to about 500 elderly from several institutions in the region. The afternoon of January 31 is the newest parading in the center of Ovar in the already traditional Carnival of Children.