As most visitors travel during the spring and summer months, our long (and very distinctive) Carnival festivities are little known by foreigners. During this past week, next week and in some areas until the end of February, many towns and regions in Spain celebrate ancestral rites related to the time of Carnival (or Carnes-tolendas, "no meat", or "goobye to meat", preparing for the period of abstinence in Easter or Holy Week. There are a wide variety of celebrations, almost everywhere. To name just a few, the carnivials of Ituren and Zubieta in Navarre (https://www.visitnavarra.es/en/w/car...uren-y-zubieta), Laza in Ourense (https://turismodegalicia.org/info-tu...al-de-laza.php), the great ones in Cádiz, Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Tolosa in the Basque Country, in Xinzo de Limia, in Ruzafa, in Haro...the list is endless. Quite a few of them very much related to ancient pagan rites and really worth seeing and participating.