Brief History About Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago
Being from Trinidad and Tobago I’m very proud of the annual carnival celebrated there. I wanted to share it the rest of the world so I created this post about Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago. In it’s original latin form, Carnival literally means “farewell to the flesh” and is celebrated by many cultures world wide. In Trinidad, Carnival came about when the European Catholic rituals fused with African “Mask Rituals” in celebrations symbolizing the giving up of meat for Lent. During the British colonial reign it was unsuccessfully repressed and is now one of the island nations most prized festivals, that bridges all religious and cultural gaps. Carnival is celebrated across the entire island of Trinidad with the largest concentration in Port of Spain, the country’s capitol city, in the north and San Fernando in the south. Continue reading