The parade scheduled for Saturday, June 7 opens the tourism city in Kor衬 famous for its mountain tourism and traditional dishes in the villages of Voskopoja, Boboshtica and Dardha.
TIRANA, June 2 – For the seventh year in row, the southeastern Albanian city of Kor衬 nicknamed as the serenades’ city, will open its tourist season with an international carnival festival, bringing together Albanian and foreign groups.
Under the slogan “Kor衬 the city of festivities” the municipality of Kor衠will bring this weekend a series of events culminating with the carnival parade.
“This time there will be other novelties. Apart from foreign groups from Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, there will also be Carnival groups from the Albanian cities of Shkodra and Kavaja. It will be a perfect parade for a city with everyone celebrating,” said Vasillaq Niko, the organizer of the festival.
The parade scheduled for Saturday, June 7 opens the tourism city in Kor衬 famous for its mountain tourism and traditional dishes in the villages of Voskopoja, Boboshtica and Dardha. The neighbouring lake town of Pogradec is only 40 kilometres from Kor衮
Through their colorful costumes and masks and dances on Kor衧s main boulevard,
the Carnival groups are expected to offer different stories to the public including the everlasting efforts to enter the European Union, the serenades of Kor衬 the football championship title, the Mayas forecast for the end of the world, wedding ceremonies, the coming of the summer, children’s harmony.
In last year’s edition, the famous “Polena” Carnival group, a predecessor of the Korca Carnival festival, also participated. Apart from people dressed up in Carnival outfit, there were also groups with guitars and people dressed in animal masks.
The International Carnival Festival is also enjoyed by different groups of visitors from various cities, visiting Kor衠to be part of Carnival celebrations.
The Carnival of Korca was first celebrated around the 1940s, a period when the cultural life in the city was revived.
The Carnival further developed after the creation of cultural societies such as “Kor衧s Youth,” a period in which the Carnival celebrations were accompanied by a mandolin, guitar and humorous songs. The celebrations were interrupted round the 1960s to restart only in the early 1990s after the collapse of communism.
