Openair Carnival!
The Venice Carnival has always been an openair
festival held in the streets and squares, with a wild atmosphere
that sometimes even erupted into violence...
There were battles between gangs from the different districts of the city, on the bridges that are still today known as Ponti dei Pugni (bridges of fists).
During this year’s Carnival celebrations, the same bridges will be the scene for battles between bands of a different nature, with no dead or injured, even though the contestants have at least as much energy as their 18th-century counterparts.
Beside concerts and shows, in the strees will be back the most traditional events in the Carnival calendar, such as the Festa delle Marie and the Flight of the Angel...
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Venice Carnival official program 2010
SENSATION 2010- 6 senses for 6 sestieri, directed by Marco Balich, will carry you through the most beautiful city in the world, revolutionising your every feeling.
From February 6 until February 16, Venice becomes the kingdom of his majesty the Carnival 2010. A Carnival to enjoy Venice in every sense through the power of sight, the joy of touch, the thrills of hearing, the pleasure of taste and the exhilaration of smell.
Venice Carnival between traditions and curiosities
Venice it's a unique city in the world and the organization of its most famous and most ancient traditional feast, the Carnival of Venice, must always start from this awareness...
Venice Carnival Traditonal feasts
During Carnival Venice population attended official festivities in the public squares, with dances, music, theatre performances, live entertainment with acrobats, tightrope walkers, puppeteers, street entertainers and fireworks.
Carnival parties in Venetian private Palaces
Give yourself the gift of an exclusive
Carnival party in one of the
traditional private palaces along
Canal Grande during the Carnival
festivities, concede yourself the
(paid) pleasure of escaping from reality,
hiding yourself behind the
mystery of a costume or a mask.
Traditional Venetian masks
Discover the most famous traditional Venetian masks: from the well known Bàuta, to the mysterious moretta and many other characters of the Commedia dell'Arte of the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni...
The Carnival of Venice today
Carnival is one of the oldest traditional feasts of Venice, rooted in the history and the culture of the most unique city in the world.
Today it's a blend of traditions and new events taking place throughout the whole city...
The history of masks and the Carnival's laws
Venetian masks were used to hide and protect their wearer's identity during promiscuous or decadent activities, but they became also the symbol of transgression and freedom from the severe social rules imposed by the Serenissima Republic.
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