Started February and is synonymous with carnaval. Every year, in the different avenues and streets of the Buenos aires city parade the corsicanwhere the murgas they perform batucadas to the rhythm of their characteristic dance. It is for this reason that the Ministry of Culture of CABA confirmed when will the festivities begin porteños.
In addition, in some shows, stages and other spaces are set up, which extend over the streets. Thousands of families attend the parades. All corsicans are free. The Carnival Commissionin charge of the City’s Culture portfolio, reported that the celebrations will be held on the weekends of this monthincluding the holidays of February 20 and 21which are due to Carnival Monday and Tuesday.
For his part, he Buenos Aires government it had enabled the neighbors to choose in which places they might be held this season.
The calendar of festivals and carnivals for February 2023 throughout Argentina
Carnival 2023: the Buenos Aires neighborhoods where the parades will take place
So far, the confirmed neighborhoods for the murgas are the following:
- boedo: on site Playa de San Lorenzo on Avenida La Plata and Las Casas.
- tents: park spainin Avenida Caseros at 1500
- little horse: ireland squarein Gaona at 1400
- slaughterhouses: Slaughterhouses Amphitheateron Avenida Directorio at 6200.
- Saavedra: saavedra parkat the corner of Avenida Balbín and Ramallo
- San Telmo: Amphitheater of Lezama Parkcorner of Brazil and Paseo Colón.
Dates and times of the Buenos Aires carnivals
- Saturdays: 4, 11, 18 and 20 February. They will be held from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
- sundays: 5, 12, 19 and 21 February, between 20 and 00.
- closing party: Monday, February 20, on Avenida de Mayo, from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. It remains to be confirmed at what height.
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How Carnival is celebrated in Argentina
Carnival parties are part of the oldest traditions of popular culture in Argentina. The carnaval It was introduced in Buenos Aires by the Spanish. A pagan celebration but of Christian origin, linked to the days before “cleaning meat”, which leads to the religious prohibition of consuming it during Lent.
At present, the most traditional places to celebrate carnival in Argentine territory are in different parts of the country, such as in Buenos Aires, Gualeguaychú y Jujuy. In each province, murgas, comparsas, percussion groups are presented and in each place they present their particularities.
One of the clear examples is the culture of candombe of Afro-American descendants in Uruguay, who later became an influence for the carnivals in Buenos Aires and the Argentine coast.
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Carnival 2023 in CABA: which murgas are confirmed
The Department of Culture of the government of the CABA had enabled the registration for all those groups, murgas and groups that wanted to appear in this carnival, which will be more than a hundred.
Those confirmed so far are:
- The Milonga of Parque Chacabuco
- The Gardelitos de la Solis
- By the way Cañazo
- Hangover Murguera of San Cristóbal
- The Chosen of the God Momo
- Lxs Quitapenas
- The Pampered of the Paternal
- Los Rotosos de Montserrat
- Revealed of the Mouth
- The Goyeneches of the Miter neighborhood
- The Girosos of Pompeii
- Celebrating for the Homeland
- The Mess of my Life
- take me i’ll go
- The Bohemians of Lugano
- Sambatelmo
- The Carnival Showoffs
- The Retouched of Villa Urquiza
- The Torrantes of Almagro
- Lovers of Agronomy
- The Pitucos of Villa del Parque and Devoto
- The Devils of Villa Ortúzar
- Capricious of San Telmo
- Dribbling the Paved
- Wasting Joy
- Palermo’s Rechifle
- The Movedizos of Villa Crespo
- Devotee’s Masters
- Valley Angels
- The Gods of La Paternal
- The Enemies of Casorio
- The Insane of Burning
- The Comets of Boedo
- nobody’s poets
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