Events for this year’s Patras Carnival are coming to a climax this weekend, when the carnival season ends with the Grand Parade, the burning of the ‘carnival king’ and a fireworks display, ANA reports.
Nearly 30,000 young men and women have registered to participate in the night-time parade on foot that will be held on Saturday and the Sunday day-time parade with floats.
The Grand Parade, the last even of the carnival, will commence at 14:00 on Sunday and is led by the float of the carnival king, followed by the carnival queen (who this year is Olga Katsara), the Children’s Carnival floats, the 138 crews of the ‘Treasure Hunt’ and the “chocolate battle” floats. The Grand Parade will be covered by the state television channel ERT1. The theme of this year’s carnival is unemployment.
The last acts of the 2018 carnival will be the burning of the effigy of the carnival king at Agios Nikolaos pier at 21:00 with a fireworks display.
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