This 12 months’s carnival, entitled “The Time of Casanova”, celebrates 300 years of the well-known Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova.
The Venice Carnival this 12 months has entered its final weekend, with a program crowded with events, reveals and exhibitions.
Carnival is widely known all through Italy, however like yearly Venice is the capital of the annual custom. This 12 months, the Venetian carnival honors the period of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th century Italian adventurer, on the three hundredth anniversary of his start.
The origins of the occasion date again to 1094 and was revived in 1979 after an absence of virtually two centuries. Today it’s a agency level of Venetian tradition and attracts hundreds of tourists yearly.
The opening night of the Carnival attracted 20,000 individuals who gathered within the well-known Piazza San Marco in Venice.
Carnival’s opening weekend in Venice culminated with a water procession alongside the Grand Canal which resulted in entrance of the Rialto bridge with a flourishing of coloured streamers and confetti, all utterly biodegradable.
The Festival goes till Tuesday 4 March.
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