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Mardi Gras is (1)
for Fat Tuesday. Perhaps the city
most famous for its Mardi Gras celebrations is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Carnival is an important celebration in (2) of Europe includ-
ing Nice, France and Venice, Italy. It is only in Ireland and the United
Kingdom where the festival is called Shrove Tuesday (3) ...
Mardi Gras and pancakes are the tradition.
In Brazil, the Carnival celebrations (4)
in Recife, Salva-
dor and Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of people from (5)
Bra-
zil and around the world come to attend the festivities.
Venice is home to one of the most famous Carnival celebrations in the
world, in (6) to one of the oldest, The Carnival of Venice
was (7)
recorded in 1268. It was not until a modern mask
shop was founded in the 1980s that Carnival exjoyed a (8).
In Nice Carnival became famous when Charles II began taking his
holidays in Nice. All that was required to take (9)
a costume and a mask. The city of Nice still celebrates Mardi Gras with
(10)
of flower-covered floats and brilliant night-time light
displays.
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