Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill
Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe.
Every year the streets of West London come alive, with the sounds
and smells of Europe's biggest street festival.
Starting its life as a local festival set up by the West Indian
community of the Notting Hill area, it has now become a
full-blooded Caribbean carnival, attracting millions of visitors
from all over the globe. With many astonishing floats and the
sounds of the traditional steel drum bands, scores of massive sound
systems plus not forgetting the hundreds of stalls that line the
streets of Notting Hill. The Notting Hill Carnival is arguably
London's most exciting annual event.
The Notting Hill Carnival 2011 datesare August 28th and
29th.
