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The CARNIVAL of VENICE 2001
Carnival
in Venice.
Festa that it is repeated
every year on the occasion of the carnival to Venice. Its origin goes up again
to the celebrations probably announced in 1662 for the victory of the doge of
Venice on the patriarch of Aquileia. The carnival was celebrated initially the
only Shrove Thursday with competitions, fires of artifice, games and shows in
which it participated the whole population. In the Seven hundred one the noble
were camouflaged behind the bauta, a black cape of velvet or silk with hood, to
which a mask had fixed to also cover the face; the different districts of the
city elaborated masks and proper customs as the varied guilds of work.
With the time, the spectacular dimension and of collective fun of the carnival
took upper hand on the symbolic value of the party, that had to represent the
last exult of joy and lack of restraint before the period of penitence of the
Lent. After the decline in the XIX century and in the first half of the XX, in
1980 the authorities encouraged the rebirth of the Venetian carnival, that
currently lasts almost one month (with the peak in the last week) and it
attracts thousand of tourists from the whole world.
(For more information about the Carnival of Venice click here)