This festival is a two week traditional celebration marked with ceremonies, masquerades, music, festivities and processions. People from around the world attend this carnival with its masked balls, gala dinners and celebrations.More detailed information and images after the jump.
Febuary 9 will be "Venice Day". The town will welcome guests from the world, offering the best of its artistic expressions. The "Maries Fête", now refreshed and updated, will play an important part, then a grand concert from our best 18th century music tradition, Pantalone and Harlequin to entertain the public, ending with the Band of Venice to close a truly Venetian day.
The next day, 10 February, for the first time, children will be absolute masters in St Mark's Square. A great competition and procession for all elementary schools in Venice, stilts, clowns, fire-eaters. A kids' only musical concert with "La mente di Tetsuya", famed performers of cartoon soundtracks, ending with acrobats and the magic of "Creatures".
On Sunday we shall see a yet secret new "Angel", to start with a great week of entertainment, closing with grand firework music over St Mark's waterfront. An exceptional godmother who will confer the awards for the great international masked competition, an extraordinary beauty from the East ... the name cannot yet be revealed.
But Carnival will not only be St Mark's Square. Children will find their "Enchanted Wood" in Campo San Polo, with lots of animation and games, only for the smallest, while youngsters may enjoy music in Campo Bella Vienna, with the best trend groups of the moment, and nightbirds will have the Marittima to live through the night, and maybe, a yet secret new location at Castello...
Cannaregio will host the music by Venezia Suona, while Castello will be alight with theatre shows and a new itinerant suggestion, winding through the streets...
Mestre and its small revolution, finally with a distinct, definite, metropolitan identity.
A great novelty: the date.
Mestre Carnival will start a week later, on Sunday 18 February, when the baton borne by Carlo Goldoni will arrive over the Canal Salso by gondola and give the go-ahead to the "Donkey's Flight", a fun parody of the Venetian Angel!
Shrove Tuesday will be celebrated together in Venice, closing on Sunday 25 February after three days of music and dancing in Piazza Ferretto.
The entire city, islands, peninsula, and mainland will be disguised and animated by thousands of masked faces, popular music, and dancing to experience together.
Link: Portale di Venezia
Images: Sina & Sina
Tags: Venice | Carnival
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