page_title: Kurentovanje
section_title: International Carnival Parade
hierarchical_section_title: Kurentovanje / International Carnival Parade
caption_attribution_description: Slovenščina: Kurentovanje na Ptuju
context_page_description: Kurentovanje is Slovenia's most popular and ethnologically significant carnival event first organised in 1960 by Drago Hasl. This 11-day rite of spring and fertility higlight event is celebrated on Shrove Sunday in Ptuj, the oldest documented city in the region, and draws around 100,000 participants in total each year. In 2016 proclaimed as the 7th greatest carnival in the world by Lonely Planet.
  Its main figure, known as Kurent or Korent, has been popularly reinterpreted as an extravagant god of unrestrained pleasure and hedonism in early Slavic customs. In today's festival, groups of kurents or kurenti wear traditional sheepskin garments while holding wooden clubs with hedgehog skins attached called ježevke, the noise of which is believed to "chase away winter". In this way, the presence of kurenti announces the end of winter and beginning of spring. Being a kurent was at first a privilege offered only to unmarried men, but today, married men, children and women are also invited to wear the outfit.
  In 2010, the 50th anniversary of the first organized instance of this festival was celebrated.
context_section_description: In 1960 in 1961 it was held on Shrove Saturday and since next year on is held on Shrove Sunday. Between 1962 and 1991 programm was scheduled at two parts: at the early noon there was parade of traditional masks only at the city's stadium and carnival in the town streets in the afternoon. With gathering of over 50,000 people each year on Sunday Shrove, this is the biggest Slovenian daily public event next to Planica Ski Flying event. 
  1972 - only on stadium event, no city carnival.
  1992 - no classic carnival, limited to four city squares only.
caption: Fifth kurentovanje (1964).
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