Mardi Gras festival celebrates 10th anniversary at Ghent Festival

The Ghent Festival still has a couple of days to run giving people enough time to discover the Mardi Gras Festival on the Emile Braunplein in the Ghent downtown.

Mardi Gras is this year celebrating its 10th anniversary.

It’s a free festival that takes place in the shadow of City Hall every day of the Ghent Festival.

It combines live bands, drag shows, burlesque dancing and much more.

Organiser Hannes De Wit describes the square as a place where visitors and performers can be themselves. ...