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The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia; Venetian: Carneval de Venèsia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday (Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras), which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday.
Venetian Festival is the name of a festival held in cities in Europe and North America. They are based on carnival, or carnevale, the period just before Lent, as celebrated in the 17th century in Venice, Italy. Venetian festivals re-create the fantasy of the earlier events with food, costumes, masks, music, theater, juggling and other ...
The Venice Biennale (/ ˌbiːɛˈnɑːleɪ, - li /; Italian: La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy, by the Biennale Foundation. It focuses on contemporary art, and includes events for art, contemporary dance, architecture, cinema, and theatre. Two main components of the festival are ...
Gayle Levengood's creation for the 2023 Venetian Festival spotlights former Miss Charlevoix Kari Way. 'An emotional painting': Venetian Festival art tugs on Charlevoix's heartstrings Skip to main ...
Events officially kick off on Saturday, July 20, with the popular Aquapalooza boating party, volleyball and the Venetian Court’s corn toss competition at Ferry Beach.
82nd. 80th. The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale ") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five ...
The Venetian Carnival tradition is most famous for its distinctive masks. The Carnival in Venice was first documented in 1296, with a proclamation by the Venetian Senate announcing a public festival the day before the start of Lent. Unquestionably one of the most well-known Carnival festivities in the world, the Carnival of Venice is rife with ...
Ludwigsburg Venetian Festival in Ludwigsburg, Germany. For three days in September, the streets fill with people dressed in decorative masks, capes, and gowns straight out of 18th-century Venice.