Events calendar

The carnival madness traditionally starts with the handover of town keys. This year, the carnival will end on Tuesday, March 04, with a carnival parade and the Testament read to the crowd in the local dialect, presenting all important events marking the past year in a humorous way and from the perspective of an ordinary man.

The International Carnival Parade is the jewel in the crown of the carnival festivities in Kvarner and beyond. Competitions in creativity, humour and originality, fireworks of colours and shapes result in a parade of hundreds of allegorical floats, thousands of masks and a countless number of visitors from home and abroad.

In 2014 Carnival will be almost two months long – the carnival period is set from January 17 until March 5. The opening event, as always, is Rijeka Carnival Queen Pageant and Handover of the Town Key as a beginning of masked madness.

Cultural-musical event to mark the birth of the famous local poet I. G. Kovačić.