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Dressed-up "Gilles" celebrate "Mardi Gras" festival in Belgium
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-02-22 01:41

Belgium;Mardi Gras festival

People dressed up as "Gille" and wearing huge hats made of white ostrich feathers participate in Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) celebration, in Binche, some 60 km south to Brussels, capital of Belgium, on Feb. 21, 2012. Gille is the symbolic figure of Binche Carnival, which was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in November, 2003.(Xinhua/Wu Wei)

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