Huge crowds of costumed revelers took to German streets on Thursday as the much-loved Carnival celebrations got underway, with the two Rhineland Carnival bastions of Cologne and Düsseldorf a ...

One of Germany’s biggest and most beloved festivals, carnival, has been celebrated for hundreds of years. With the first big parties of the year kicking off on Thursday, February 27th, we take a ...

The triumvirate on the balcony of the Severin Gate is greeted with confetti from a group. The Rhineland street carnival reaches its climax with the Rose Monday parades. The motto of the 2025 ...

Police are on high alert ahead of Germany’s traditional carnival celebrations this week after social media connected to the Islamic State group called for attacks targeting revellers in Cologne ...

Revelers pose for photos during the Rose Monday carnival parade in Cologne, Germany, March 3, 2025. Rose Monday is the biggest one of its kind held during the annual carnival season in this city ...

The cities on Germany's Rhine River celebrated the carnival season with colorful costumes, food, and heroic quantities of beer, or the local Kölsch, on Rose Monday. But the parades dotting those ...

The first float, giving a 'trigger warning' and indicating that some floats might appear disturbing, leaves for the parade to celebrate Rose Monday (Rosenmontag) in Dusseldorf on March 3, 2025.

A driver plowed a car into pedestrians at a street carnival in Germany early Monday, killing two and injuring at least ten others — five of them seriously — in an area on high alert for ...

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Germany’s iconic Carnival season is in full swing, as cities across the country come alive with parades, elaborate costumes, and lively festivities. From the grand celebrations in Cologne to the ...