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Venice Carnival

Venice Carnival - Once a year ‘the masks’ arrive from all around the world to gather in the Piazza San Marco. A years dedicated work will have gone into some of the costumes and they are quite breath taking, a photographer’s dream.

In this fabled watery capital, once the mightiest republic in the world the carnival, an outrageous celebration which reached its zenith in the 18th Century revels in its history and culture. Although Venice has been sinking into the mud and ooze of the lagoon since its first inhabitants swam out into its waters to escape the ravages of Attila, during Carnival it rises again majestic and defiant. Go to Venice once and you will return. Go to Venice during Carnival and you will never escape.