At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off their colorful costumes.

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 Rhineland street carnival reaches its climax with the Rose Monday parades. The motto of the 2025 Cologne Carnival season is "FasteLOVEnd - Wenn Draeum widder bloehe". Oliver Berg/dpa 31,170 ...

The Carnival season has just kicked off in Germany and local businesses are ... thousands of colorfully dressed dancers' parade through the Sambadrome, a large, open-air venue, while millions ...

The carnival season ends on Ash Wednesday, March 5. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP) The end of Germany's famous carnival season was marked by public celebrations on Monday. The Rhineland cities of ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of costumed onlookers watched and cheered as Germany’s beloved Carnival parades made their way through city centres on Shrove Monday, the highlight of festivities each year.