It is held annually in February and sometimes early March (depending on the movable date of Carnival in the Christian calendar) in Nice on the French Riviera.

The Carnival was reinvented into a parade,[2] adding masquerades, satirical floats, and competitions.

[3] Today, the two-week event attracts over a million visitors to Nice every year.

Each year, a special theme is chosen, and artists create 18 floats and other figurines in traditional papier-mâché for the colorful parade.

The parades take place day and night, while on the Promenade des Anglais, "flower battles" occur.