Venice Carnival 2012
Baku, February 14 (AZERTAC). Carnival season is an exciting time of costume parties, parades, masquerade balls and entertainment culminating on Shrove Tuesday, 40 days before Easter. Venice is one of the world's top places to celebrate carnival and its carnival is the most famous in Italy.
Venice's 2012 Carnival officially opens on February 11 with a big party in Saint Mark`s Square, followed on February 12 by the Flight of the Angel, a traditional event in which a costumed figure arrives in the square via a rope, starting from the bell tower. Venice`s carnival finale is a giant group kiss at midnight in Saint Mark`s Square with entertainment and a beautiful fireworks display over the Venetian lagoon. This year`s theme is Life is a theater, everyone in masks.
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