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Venice Carnival

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About Venice Carnival


The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks.

Carnival in Venice: The city celebrates months after the flooding

Feb 16,2020 10:18 am

party-goers in Italy, come in style for the annual carnival in Venice, a few months after The City was hit by the biggest floods since 1966.

The Festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks and costumes.

It is a time of opulence before the beginning of lent, The Christian tradition, 40 days of fasting in preparation for Easter.

The carnival in Venice is said to date back to the 11Th Century .

This year, the festivities began with a parade on the water, The City of canals, in the night of Sunday, was. in the presence of thousands of people Their Motto is "play, love, and madness".

The opening took place on Sunday, with a variety of boats and floats, making their way through The City of canals.

While most of the revelers decided to go for the traditional masks, some wearing decidedly more modern costumes, with a group, disguised as characters from Netflix, the La Casa de Papel (money-Heist).

The Venice Carnival goes until February 25.



italy, venice

Source of news: bbc.com

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