The Carnival of Madeira (Carnaval in Portuguese) is an annual festival held forty days before Easter that ends on Shrove Tuesday (called Fat Tuesday in Madeira – Terça-feira Gorda in Portuguese) the day before Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent).
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