Carnival in New Orleans.

The Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, literal translation of the French because former it was fattened to a calf and a banquet was celebrated, is the name that receives the carnival parade that celebrates in New Orleans the day before the Ash Wednesday.

The season of the Carnival in New Orleans, inspired by the catholic tradition, begins on January 6, the night of Epiphany. From this day already they start seeing for the streets coaches, masked balls and the famous ones " king cake ", royal tarts, which are not but, a variant mas colouring of our  famous “roscón”. These sponge cakes with form of coil are decorated by the traditional colors of the Mardi Gras, the green one that symbolizes the Faith, the purple one that symbolizes The Justice and the yellow one that symbolizes The Power.

The Mardi Gras is the culmination of all these feasts, is the parade of coaches and confraternities that takes place last day, and marks the final moment to be able to enjoy the pleasures, both culinary and carnal, before the epoch of abstinence that he carries the beginning of the Holy Week and the Lent.

The French colonists introduced the celebration of the Mardi Gras in Louisiana, as far back as the year 1699. Since then in numerous occasions the authorities have tried to prohibit the celebration but with scanty success. Two weeks before the Shrove Tuesday, realize daily parades, of great color and very elaborated The associations, rocks or confraternities named "Krewes", are those who take charge organizing the parades and dances of the Mardi Gras, including the construction of coaches, the confection of uniforms and the purchase of the trinkets, which throw themselves to the crowd during the parades. It is a tradition from the sixties that many women uncover his chests to receive of the multitude account necklaces of colors with which to cover them.

 The Mardi Gras, finishes formally when there meet the kings of Rex and his "subjects", the king and the queen of the carnival and the king and the queen of Mistick Krewe's rock of Comus,  a dance in the municipal audience of the city. In the middle of the night a policemen's squadron, mounted his horses, starts clearing the street Bourbon ….