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2 unusual facts about Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria


Agnes Alpers

She is a founder of school groups and was the leader of the first Kids Samba Group in Bremen during Carnival.

Arabella

Arabella continues to muse about the strange man she noticed, but when Count Elemer arrives to be her escort for the evening, she tries to banish these thoughts and look forward to the excitement of Faschings.


Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are held in the public media to be Germany's three carnival "strongholds," but carnival celebrations are also widespread elsewhere in the Rhineland, in places such as Wattenscheid, Hagen, Krefeld, Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bonn, Eschweiler, Bocholt and Kleve.


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