{"id":243,"date":"2008-01-23T22:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:49:41","slug":"carnival-of-venice-2008-venezia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/italy\/venice\/carnival-of-venice-2008-venezia","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of Venice 2008, Venezia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carnival of Venice 2008 kicks off this Friday.\u00a0 This 10-day annual event organized by the Commune di Venezia brings fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0193.jpg.html\" title=\"Piazza San Marco, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/18857-2\/italy_0193.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Piazza San Marco, Venice\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Piazza San Marco, Venice\" \/><\/a>entertainment and merriment to the city in winter.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/SanMarco\/IMG_1178.jpg.html\" title=\"Costume &amp; Masks, Venice\">Masked parties<\/a>, street performances and parades are held all over the city.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/italy_0193.jpg.html\" title=\"Piazza San Marco\">Piazza San Marco <\/a>is the centre stage of Carnival, although other events take place throughout the city. People dressed in all types of costumes and masks happily invade streets and squares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/SanPolo\/_DSC0937.jpg.html\" title=\"Venetian mask shop in San Polo, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/39387-2\/_DSC0937.jpg?resize=90%2C120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Venetian masks, Venice\" height=\"120\" style=\"width: 90px; height: 120px\" title=\"Venetian masks, Venice\" \/><\/a>The origin of Carnival dates back to the 12th century when the Republic defeated Ulrico, Patriarch of Aquileia in 1162.\u00a0 To commemorate the victory, a tradition of slaughtering a bull and 12 pigs began in the Piazza San Marco around Shrove Tuesday. The first document mentioning the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/SanPolo\/_DSC0937.jpg.html\" title=\"Venetian mask shop, San Polo, Venice\">masks <\/a>was dated 1268. Masks are a great way to temporarily override the social order.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not able to identify the wearer of the mask, then you cannot determine his social status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/SanPolo\/_DSC0934.jpg.html\" title=\"Venetian Mask Shop, San Polo, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/39381-2\/_DSC0934.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Venetian masks, San Polo, Venice\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Venetian masks, San Polo, Venice\" \/><\/a>Carnival was at its prime in the eighteenth century when Venice became a centre for conspicuous consumption of pleasure . Rich young nobles doing the European &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221; were keen to grasp at these pleasures as well.\u00a0 Carnival was banned in the 1930s when Mussolini took over.\u00a0 It was not until 1979 when a group of Venetians and lovers of Venice decided to revive the tradition. The image of the masked reveller very quickly became\u00a0a worldwide icon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/SanMarco\/IMG_1178.jpg.html\" title=\"Carnival Costumes, Venice\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/39200-2\/IMG_1178.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Carnival Costumes\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Carnival Costumes\" \/><\/a>Venice in winter.<\/p>\n<p>Everytime we&#8217;re at the Sydney Opera House Shop, I salivate at the few beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/Italy\/Venice\/SanPolo\/_DSC0934.jpg.html\" title=\"Venetian mask shop, San Polo, Venice\">masks <\/a>that they have for sale, but the prices are as scarey as the sinister characters that may be hiding behind them.\u00a0 Next time we&#8217;re in Venice, a mask is definitely on the shopping list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival of Venice 2008 kicks off this Friday.\u00a0 This 10-day annual event organized by the Commune di Venezia brings fun, entertainment and merriment to the city in winter.\u00a0\u00a0 Masked parties, street performances and parades are held all over the city.\u00a0 Piazza San Marco is the centre stage of Carnival, although other events take place throughout [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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