This 11-day rite of spring and fertility highlight event is celebrated in Ptuj, the oldest documented city in the region,
and draws around 100,000 participants in total each year.
* Begins 11 days before Ash Wednesday (57 days before Easter)
* Ends Shrove Tuesday (47 days before Easter)
In 2016 proclaimed as the 7th greatest carnival in the world by Lonely Planet.
As the host of the festival, the town of Ptuj was admitted into the European Federation of Carnival Cities in 1991.
