You might get frozen in the last day or two, experiencing Dalmatian bura at its best (or worst, depending if you were caught somewhere outside), but on Tuesday, March 5, you'll have an opportunity to heat up. Yes, it's a Carnival time!

As tradition orders for centuries, same as in many other places around the world, Fat Tuesday is time when all brakes should be released, just before Ash Wednesday marks beginning of Lent in Christian world. Split is not different.

Festivities in Split already began, with raising a Carnival flag on official flag pole at the main square, but same as always, main thing will come on Fat Tuesday. That day put your mask on, go out, and join all those who will have fun the way Split always had fun. This year, main events will take place at Djardin park, next to the Grgur Ninski statue.

Carnivals in Split are usually different than in many other places. Don't expect neat and trained parades of masked groups. Split carnival is anarchic, subversive, just as people in Split believe city's state of mind is. Goran Borčić, curator at Split City Museum, just published a book about old carnivals in Split, saying that only Sudamja, celebration of city's patron saint, can be compared with the Carnival. Maybe that's why it wasn't always well accepted by the officials. My friend, journalist Damir Šarac wrote once that bishop Stjepan Cosmi banned his priests to participate in carnival in 1688, and it's not the only case. It's not surprise that communists also didn't like carnival's disorder.

So, join us at streets of Split, no matter if you will wear some supermarket mask, or make some more elaborated effort to win one of awards. Just get rid of all worries for one day, and put all the blame to Krnje, punished with bonfire for all bad things that happened during last year.

What is scheduled for this year's Carnival? Check here.