Saturday, February 3, 2024, at 11:00 a.m


1. PTUJ BRASS ORCHESTRA

The City Band of Ptuj was mentioned for the first time in 1855, so the city and its orchestra record 169 years of continuous band activity - more than a century and a half of love for music that never gets old!
The Ptuj Wind Orchestra is one of the carriers of cultural events in Ptuj and actively participates in all important cultural events.

2. PRINCE CARNIVAL WITH PRINCE'S TRADERS

Francesco Guffante, Ptuj city judge, 19th prince of the Ptuj carnival

3. POP UP
Tržec, Pobrežje, Župečja village

Announcing the Beginning of Carnival

4. SPEARMEN
Markovci

Indispensable companions of the married couple

5. FAIRIES
Markovci

Dancing and singing harbingers of good

6. PIECES
KUD Baron

Boys with Colorful Ribbons and Feather

7. JÜREK and RABOLJ
Dolena

Green George Defeats the Winter Demon

8. BEARS
Markovci

Mischievous bear and hound from Ptujsko polje

9. CHURCH SHOWERS
Circus people

Fertility Wizards Log-Haulers

10. POBRES DANCERS
The coast

Plainly dressed carnival dancers from Pobrežje

11. GRANDMA GRANDFATHER CARRIES
Soviče-Dravci

Playful Display of Marriage Roles

12. PLOWERS
Markovci, Rogoznica, Leskovec, Lancova vas, Podlehnik, Podvinci

The Magical Circle Is Outlined by Ploughmen

13. MINERS
Judges

Miners of the 18th Prince of Carnival, Knight Hink Sodinski, Noble Gall,
they certainly accumulate enough coal to heat their home in the winter on his hill and hang out on cold winter days.

14. THE OPPRESSED
It blows

Subjects of the 7th prince of the carnival Klinac Hauptman Spuhljanski - commander of the shooting castle - prince of the Ptuj carnival in 2006

15. HERBS
Irritators

16. COURENTS and CORANTS

A magical ethnographic character that brings happiness and satisfaction

17. SHOCROMATS
Pear

The Škoromats from Hrušica perform the harvest on Shrovetide Saturday, when they gather early in the morning in the middle of the village and in a procession go around the village to the most distant houses,
where the pickers separate from the main group and start collecting gifts from house to house.

18. SHJME VRBOVA
Illyrian Bistrica

Preservation of ethnological customs,
especially original masks made of leather and natural materials and the representation of various characters from the past.

19. SHEPHERDS
Grgarske Ravne

Pustar's traditional outfit is a dress made of colorful ribbons.
On her head she wears a high headdress decorated with traditional paper flowers made by the hardworking hands of girls and women.

20. LIŠKI DESERT
Canal along the Soča

Like an ancient memory, like ghosts from the past, the Liški pustje, "the ugly one" and "the beautiful one" appear during the carnival season.
and they connect us with their magical power to the natural and supernatural forces of the time.

21. SEVSK POTECINI
Cerknica

In terms of art, the Sev potecini are recognizable mainly by leaning on the design expression of Maksim Gaspari, which we know
that he drew on folk lore and traditional images.

22. BORDER CARPENTER
Delivery

Prutari got their name from the long shiny stick on which they used to attach the 'craggy Pongels', as the locals call them,
today, however, they are fabric strips, as they are more durable.

23. PUSHERS
Cerknica

Butalci are one of the most famous characters in the Cerknica carnival.
Every year on Maundy Thursday, they take power from the mayor of Cerknica, and then turn everything upside down. How not, if their heads are so big that it is difficult to keep them in the air.

24. TRESIMIRJI AND KOŠI ŠOSTANJSKI
Šostanj

The basket of Šoštanjski illustrates the free time of the tanner,
Tresimir was a prince who settled with his people in the fertile fields near today's Šoštanje.

25. PUST MOZIRSKI
Mozirs

Hermitage in Mozir has a long tradition, as the first written sources say that the Hermits of Mozir were active around 1891.

26. KUNGOSKI PARKLI
Kungota

According to historical data, hooves in Kungota used to walk from house to house even before the First World War.
It was about boys who put on animal skins and rattled the house door with a chain.

27. BARANJA BUSH
Baranja - Croatia

Guardians of centuries-old tradition

28. SRAKAR'S BELL RINGS
Sračinec – Croatia

a traditional figure who banishes winter and heralds a fertile spring.
Black and red magpie masks are made from natural materials such as sheepskin, horns and boar tusks.

29. GROBNIŠKI DONDOLAŠI
Čavle – Croatia

30. SU MAIMULU
Sardinia - Italy

31. GYPSIES
ED Cigani Dornava, TED Lükari Dornava

Merry Gypsies from Dornava