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
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
