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Basel (Switzerland) (AFP) – Revellers in fancy costumes lit up the freezing streets of Basel in the early hours of Monday as Switzerland's biggest carnival returned for the first time since 2019. The ...

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Revellers in fancy costumes lit up the freezing streets of Basel in the early hours of Monday as Switzerland’s biggest carnival returned for the first time since 2019. The three-day event, which is ...

The Swiss interior ministry has asked the United Nations to recognise the Basel Carnival as a globally important cultural phenomenon. The Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

Basel Carnival is the largest carnival in Switzerland. Starting on the Monday following Ash Wednesday, the carnival includes parades, concerts and lantern exhibitions, and can be compared to a huge ...

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The Basel carnival started this morning at 4 am with the traditional Morgenstraich. In the old town of Basel, all the streetlights and other lights are cut down after the countdown at 4 am. Then the ...

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The three-day event, which is one of the best-known carnivals in Europe, was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But tens of thousands of people were out in the streets of ...