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End-of-winter Buso festivities to begin in Mohacs on Thursday
The end-of-winter masked carnival Buso festivities, a registered UNESCO cultural heritage event, begins in Mohacs, in southern Hungary, on Thursday.
At the festival held between Feb 8 and 13 this year, a record number of masked participants, 2,500 in all, wearing traditional wooden masks and sheepskin costumes, will march through the city, the organisers said on Tuesday.
Programmes include an anniversary gathering of bagpipers, a Buso wedding, “a folk singers” contest, folkdance shows, and a workshop on making Buso masks.
Spectacles will end with the burning of the coffin of winter on Shrove Tuesday in the city’s main square.
Buso procession is a folk custom of the local Croatian minority. The event recalls a legend of the ethnic group, according to which their ancestors, seeking refuge from the Turkish occupiers on the island of Mohacs on the opposite side of the Danube, crossed the river in boats at night, disguised in horrifying masks, and forced the superstitious soldiers of the enemy into a panicked escape. In an older, less popular story, the Busos scare away not the Turks, but winter itself.
Buso procession was listed by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009 and described as “a general emblem of the city and a commemoration of the great events of its history”.
It is expected to attract 110,000 spectators over the six days this year, including 40,000-45,000 on Saturday and Sunday, the organisers said.
Further details of the programmes, access to the main sites and parking, are available on the www.mohacsibusojaras.hu website.
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