This year's Venice Carnival has entered its last weekend, with a packed programme of festivities, performances and exhibitions. Carnival is celebrated across Italy, but as every year, Venice is ...

Tourists flooded roads and bridges for the opening weekend of the Carnival in Venice, Italy just weeks before the historical ...

The annual Carnival of Venice kicked off this weekend, as thousands of revelers took to the streets in traditional masks and elegant costumes. But the pre-Lent party that traces its roots back to ...

CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — Italian authorities have announced they are shutting down Venice's famed Carnival events in a bid to stop the spread of the novel virus, as numbers of infected persons in ...

People wear colourful masks and wonderful costumes at this year’s Venice Carnival. The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival. Carnival of Venice Everyone loves a good party! And few people ...

for the "flight of the angel", the traditional opening of the Venice Carnival. On the 12th chime of midday from St Mark's Campanile, Claudia Marchiori descended gracefully from the famous bell ...

Thousands lined the bridges and canal banks of Venice to watch the floating parade. One of the world's oldest carnivals, it started in the 11th century as a celebration before Lent. The two-week ...

Venice Carnival's tastiest secret is out: mammalucchi, a mouth-watering fried, sugary pastry which began life as an accident, is the treat hankered after by gondoliers and masked revelers alike ...

For the past week the streets of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil have been filled with plenty of colour, music, dancing and incredible costumes! That's because the Rio Carnival, also known as the world's ...

Italian officials have cut short the Venice Carnival as they try to control what is now the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe. Authorities in the Veneto region said the event would end ...