Carnival in Pula 2025

After welcoming the New Year we embark upon the time of crazy, the time of carnival, the time when you can be everything you want to be! Many masks are removed, many are put on! And it will be so all the way to March.

With its rich program, Pula joins the craziest days of the year that begin on 17 January when the city keys are collected from the Communal Palace (city hall) and the carnival king Pust is put up on Veli Vrh. Then the carnival parade, along with the child mayor, also take over the “power” over the city in the coming period.

The Children’s Carnival Parade for kindergarten and school groups, organized by the Naša djeca association, will be held on 21 February in the Pula Arena, starting at 10 a.m.

The big Carnival Parade of masked groups will take place in the city centre on 22 February at 11:30 a.m. After gathering at Karolina, the parade will start its tour in front of the Arena, where their first presentation will take place, and then head to Portarata Square for the second presentation and a large gathering. From 3 p.m. onwards, there will be a real carnival ball with the Lucky Band at the Croatian Defenders’ Home where admission is free for all carnival lovers.

The next day, 23 February, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., the Valmade-Veli Vrh carnival group will parade through Valmade, and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., through Veli Vrh.

The carnival madness ends on 4 March when the main culprit, Pust, will be sentenced for all the misfortunes that befell us and will be burned for it on Veli Vrh at 7 p.m. This will mark the end of the carnival season and the beginning of Lent.

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