St. Patrick’s Day with TravelPapa Private Tour Guides

Thousands and thousands of people dress up in the bright costumes, large green hats (as the green color symbolizes spring), paint the Irish flags and join the huge parade around the city with St. Patrick - the main Irish symbol - at the head of it, listening to the loud traditional music and singing the traditional songs.

Nowadays, St. Patrick's Day is considered not only the religious, but also the cultural holiday, which is popular not only in Ireland but is also widely spread all over the Western Europe and is celebrated on the 17th of March since the beginning of the XVII-th century. Nowadays, St. Patrick’s Day is widely celebrated in such countries, as Canada, the United States of America, Australia, Argentina, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and is even celebrated in Russia (since 1993).

St. Patrick’s Day nowadays may not be even imagined without numerous fancy-dress “green” carnivals, festive parades, national dancing competitions, “waterfalls” of beer and the main symbols of this colorful holiday - green shamrock and leprechauns (the characters of the Irish mythology that may tell you the location of the hidden gold, if you find the right approach to these fairy creatures).