Rijeka Carnival

[1][2] About a century ago Rijeka lived its carnival life more intensively than any other town in this part of Europe.

As all the cities around Rijeka have their own events during the carnival time, the Queen and Meštar Toni would be in attendance at most of them.

Also, every year the Carnival charity ball is held in the Governor's palace in Rijeka.

It is attended by politicians, people from sport and media life, as well as a number of ambassadors.

In the front there are the real mayor of Rijeka, the carnival Queen and Meštar Toni.

The mayor, the queen and Meštar Toni stand in front of this stage and they greet all the groups coming afterward.

The queen leaves this position only when the group, which she is originally from, pass the route of the carnival.

Pust is a puppet, that has some satiric name, very often after some politician, and he is blamed for all the bad things that happened in the preceding year.