Immediately before the beginning of the costumed procession, in the municipal building the mayor of the City of Rijeka Vojko Obersnel received the representatives of carnival groups, who arrived from across the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the Lika-Senj County, from Croatian hinterland (Strmec) and abroad – from Slovenia (Ljubljana, Preserje), Serbia (Pančevo, Šabac) and Montenegro (Herceg Novi.

This year the elementary schools from Rijeka also hosted pupils of the following elementary schools that they cooperate with during the year:
E.S. Brajda – Children's Centre "Mladost", Herceg Novi - Montenegro
E.S. Gornja Vežica – E.S. Nikolaj Velimirović, Šabac - Serbia
E.S. Trsat – E.S. Vič, Ljubljana - Slovenia
E.S. Vežica – E.S. Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Pančevo - Serbia
E.S. Zamet – E.S. Šmartno , Ljubljana - Slovenia
E.S. Nikola Tesla – E.S. Preserje, Preserje - Slovenia

In front of a numerous audience, children from Rijeka and their guests showed what imagination can create, so that on Korzo jolly vegetable gardens, bananas, pumpkins, and small roses grew, then little snails, frogs, bees, parrots, butterflies and zebras passed by followed by numerous fantastic creatures – little dragoons, extraterrestrials, elves, wizards and witches.

The audience could see little postmen, clowns, colourful sweets and chess figures, and several groups were inspired by motives deriving from our heritage, so they were costumed as dairy-women, the City Tower and they reminded the audience how it had looked like when the Glagolitic scrip was in use.

The carnival procession took a bit shorter route from Delta through Korzo towards the Karolina Riječka pier, where under the pavilion an entertainment programme was organised, led by Vale and D.J.Tomy.