High-school graduates from Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Croatia broke on Friday noon a new Guinness world record in mass quadrille dancing, as the total of 42,060 graduates in 45 cities danced to the tune of Strauss' quadrille from the opera "Bat".
The greatest number of students danced in the capital, where almost 11,000 students packed the main Ljubljana throughfare to celebrate the last day of school.
This year's Graduation Parade in Ljubljana was attended by MEP Borut Pahor, as it is organised as part of celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and is sponsored by the Office of the European Parliament and European Commission in Ljubljana.
Last year, 23,628 graduates danced in the streets of 36 cities in Slovenia, Austria, Serbia, Croatia and Hungary.
Mass quadrille dancing of high-school graduates, which saw 3,128 dancers, was organised in Ljubljana for the first time in 2001 by Urska dance school.
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