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Every year in August, Savaria, a Roman carnival, is held in my city, Szombathely. Savaria is the Roman name for my city. My city already existed in Roman times, my city had the most famous merchant route. The Roman city was destroyed by an earthquake, so there are plenty of old Roman buildings under our city. During the excavations, many pieces of ancient Roman columns, vessels, bones, and tools were found. This year, the four-day carnival will be missed due to Covid-19. But there will be programs on the weekend. At such times, residents of the entire city wear a white, Roman toga The evening torchlight procession will be canceled. And this is the most spectacular. The mayor arrives in a Roman horse-drawn carriage with a laurel wreath on his head. The history of the city is evoked by the residents dressed in different costumes. There is also a fair, you can buy a lot, 200,000 people usually attend this event. The programs take place in several places in the city. Lots of tourists used to visit here, hotels and boarding houses were always full. I photographed these photos a few years ago at the carnival. #myphotos #originalcontent
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Beautiful Roman culture ! Very glad know about the history dear ! Huge gathering ,,, looking like grandly done,,This covid is squeezing everything from our life's ,,,when will our days come back 🔙!!!!??
Here is the life total normal again, we will be have this Festival on Weekend.
That's good ! Dear
The big white man on the left in the first photo looks like an angel. I remember shopping in Tesco in your town. We went with a family from Croatia and bought a snack and Hungarian sausages.
Beautiful memories dear,So sad that many carnivals and festivals cannot be celebrated due to this pandemic. Thanks for letting us know about Roman culture❤️
I love photographing festivals and carnivals and I really miss that in the last year and so, I hope we are all soon back to normal and such colorful and joyful events are back on! :)
The legacy and the roots of the Roman civilization is so deep and strong no matter the places and times. It's nice to see we have more in common in our European culture. Enjoy it!
That program looks fun to watch. The costume makes the celebration lively. I hope they can conduct this procession again when this pandemic is over.
I surely sounds fun and a carnival rich in traditions and history 😍