Kurent's Jump

This is the beginning of the carnival time in Ptuj when, traditionally, Kurents put on their bells for the first time in the season and dance around the camp-fire thus starting their mission of chasing the winter and everything evil away and bring in the country spring, happiness and abundant crops.

Budina pri Ptuju, homestad of the 2^nd Prince of the Carnival, Matevž Zoki, at midnight

6^th First furrow

At 24.00, local “ploughmen” together with local farmers and other groups of ploughmen from neighbouring villages make a symbolic first furrow spreading from the Firefighters’ headquarters in Mezgovci to the community of Dornava, and thus they announce the beginning of the carnival. Organiser: Tourism and ethnographic society Lükari Dornava.

Dornava near Ptuj, at midnight, Firefighters’ headquarters in Mezgovci near Dornava