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Kukerlandia Festival in Yambol

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Last week Yambol city in Bulgaria hosted a colourful and noisy event - Kukerlandia.

The masquerade festival Kukerlandia represents a synthesis of centuries old traditions, customs, sounds, shades of light. This is a celebration of vernal purifying. Monsters and creatures, accompanied by the pounding of bells attached to their belts, perform rituals to chase away phantoms and evil spirits. This is how with the coming of Spring the spectators of the kukeri take a communion, immersing themselves in the tumult, wealth of colour, and sorcery of fertility rites.

Every year between the second and the first Sunday
prior to Lent (Zagovezni) the kukeri from the eastern part of Bulgaria perform their rituals. The Kukerlandia festival is held annually in the town of Yambol within this period. Dozens of kukeri groups take part, and thousands of people gather to watch.

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