Carnival of Nivelles
The Carnival of Nivelles is an annual festival held in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The parade takes place yearly on the weekend of Quadragesima Sunday. It lasts four days, starting the first Saturday of Lent and ending the following Tuesday.
The carnival is one of the most important in Belgium and the oldest in the province of Walloon Brabant. It welcomes a lot of floats, traditional groups, majorettes, fanfares and processional giants. The carnival is mainly famous for its societies of Gilles and its imaginative societies, which attract crowds as in the nearby Centre region of Hainaut.