kurentovanje

Kurentovanje is one of the most ethnologically significant Slovenian carnival festivals.

He suggested that the event should be named after the most well-known mask Kurent - and Kurentovanje was born.

Kurentovanje is becoming recognizable in Slovenia and abroad, and more than 400,000 spectators follow daily information by means of mass media.

Drava supporters were called the Kurenti, named after Kurentovanje, which origins in Ptuj.

Hasl prepared a draft regarding the content and outlining the major guidelines to be followed to transform Kurentovanje into an event of ethnographic significance.

The most significant ethonological Carnival festival is traditionally held in annually in the town of Ptuj (see: Kurentovanje).

Ptuj is the center place of a ten-day-long carnival in the spring, an ancient Slavic pagan rite of spring and fertility, called Kurentovanje or Korantovanje.

On Shrove Sunday, 27 February 1960, the first modern festival called Kurentovanje was organised in Ptuj that featured traditional carnival masks from Markovci lined up in a carnival procession.

Hasl, indefatigable organiser of Kurentovanje from its beginnings until the 1970s, was strongly convinced that this event could help prevent what he saw as the extremely rapid disappearance of carnival habits and traditional customs in surrounding villages.