Events

eventrip 2 February 2015

In Japan for the cherry blossom

April - May 2016

Nishishinjuku(Tsuginobiruwonozoku), Japan

Hanami is the simple and sublime art of observing the cherry blossom in Japan. It’s a return to nature and being able to share times, methods, places and spectacles. It takes place here, in the most evocative place in the Orient, because if there is a place in the world where people nurture a genuine […]

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eventrip 29 December 2015

The Venice Carnival, seduction by the lagoon

31 January - 9 February 2016

Venice, Italy

Along the streets, over the bridges and in the squares there roam a multitude of mysterious and fascinatingly disturbing masks and costumes, hiding identities and secret thoughts. Once a year, Venice is cloaked in mystery and seduction, but also century old traditions which can be revisited in the various events organised during one of the […]

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eventrip 14 October 2015

Mamoiada Carneval, the Mamuthones and age old Sardinia

February 2016

Mamoiada, Italy

Mamoiada Carneval, the Mamuthones and age old Sardinia Mamoiada is well away from the beaches and their Polinesian style waters. It is closer to the old world of ancient rites that are closely tied to the world of the shepherds. The men dress in masks and costumes with heavy sheep bells on their shoulders. The […]

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eventrip 7 October 2015

In Andalusia for Holy Week

20-27 March 2016

Seville, Spain

In Seville, the week before Easter, the warm Spring air is scented with orange blossoms, candles and incense. This is how Holy Week in Seville announces its presence to travellers. The sweet, inebriating scent of over twenty-five thousand orange trees that line the streets of the city and mingles with the smell of hot wax […]

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eventrip 29 December 2015

La Sartiglia in Sardinia and timeless emotion

7 - 9 February 2016

Oristano, Italy

There are so many images that Sardinia evokes in all who have had the opportunity and the privilege to go there and taste the flavours. As many as only an age old land, which has stood still in time and space, can give. To think of Sardinia, in fact, is to think of a mine […]

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eventrip 28 October 2015

Italian Carnivals from Ivrea to Basilicata

30 Gennaio - 09 febbraio 2016

Ivrea, Italy

The Historical Carnival of Ivrea and the war of the oranges In Ivrea you can witness a full scale three day battle fought with oranges through the streets of the town by people dressed in the Parisian “sans-culottes” fashion. But the throwing of oranges is only one of the traditional events in the Historical Carnival […]

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eventrip 29 December 2015

In Venice for the Festa della Sensa

8 may 2016

Venice, Italy

The shouts of the oarsmen mingle with the strokes of the clock tower and the rumble of the jet skis. Some kayaks stand out among the traditional festively decorated and adorned gondolas. It is the procession for the Festa della Sensa. On a clear warm Spring morning the calm waters that caress Piazza San Marco […]

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Dario Saltari

In the States for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

22 April - 1 May 2016

New Orleans, United States

When Mahalia Jackson returned to Louisiana together with Duke Ellington in 1970 to attend the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the atmosphere at the event was so joyously chaotic that the Queen of Gospel forgot she was there simply as a spectator and she spontaneously began to sing together with the Eureka Brass […]

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The April holiday in Seville

12-17 April 2016

Seville, Spain

It’s like summer when you arrive in Seville for the April Holiday. Stepping from the plane there is a strange note in the air, a euphoria which builds as you approach the city and takes the initial form of barely concealed amazement, shortly after this gives way to the conviction of being in the right […]

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