29th Rijeka Carnival

This year, 29th Rijeka Carnival will start on 17th January by raising the "pust" - dummy blamed for everything bad in the past year, and will continue on the 20th January with Carnival Queen Pageant and the handover of the keys of the city, culminating in the Carnival Parade 19th February 2012.

The International Parade is the jewel in the crown of the carnival festivities in Kvarner region and much further. Competitions in imaginativeness, humor and originality, fireworks of colors and shapes result with a parade of hundreds of allegorical floats, thousands of masks and uncountable number of domestic and foreign observers.