The vibrant Carnival festival in Venice

Báo Quốc Tế•22/02/2025

Tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world flocked to Venice (Italy) to participate in the Carnival festival, mingling with crowds dressed in magnificent and vibrant costumes.

Carnival is a two-week street masquerade festival, usually held before the start of the 40 days of Lent each year. The festival's name is believed to originate from the medieval Latin "carnem levare" or "carnelevarium," meaning to remove meat. (Source: EPA)

This year, Carnival is taking place with numerous events held in various locations across Italy, and Venice is considered the "capital" of the festival. People from all over the world flock to Venice, choosing their most colorful and eye-catching costumes, accompanied by handcrafted masks made by the locals. (Source: Reuters)

The streets are always filled with the beauty of 18th-century traditional costumes and masks, some covering the entire face, others half-face. (Source: Reuters)

This year, the Venice Carnival 2025 takes place from February 14th to March 4th, with the highlight being the parade on the Grand Canal in Venice. (Source: Reuters)

Over 20,000 people attended the opening night of the Valentine's Day Carnival, held in Venice's famous Piazza San Marco. (Source: X/@Venice_Carnival)

Throughout the festival, Venice comes alive with music and color, making this beautiful city even more vibrant and bustling with people in costumes. (Source: Reuters)

Throughout the city's streets, docks, and St. Mark's Square, thousands of people dressed in colorful and elaborate costumes in the style of classic ballroom dancing, complete with masks, feathered hats, and wigs, could be seen. (Source: Reuters)

Masks are the most distinctive feature of Venice's carnival, blurring social classes and erasing age, wealth, and gender barriers. (Source: Reuters)

Typically, masquerade masks are made of leather or papier-mâché using traditional techniques. (Source: Reuters)

Today, masks are also made from plaster and gold leaf, and are always hand-painted, with added decorative details such as feathers and gemstones. (Source: Reuters)

The Venice Carnival, aimed at reviving lost history and culture, is an opportunity for people to escape from everyday life and transform themselves into someone else. (Source: Reuters)

This festival is also an opportunity for people to meet, have fun, enjoy concerts, dance, reminisce about and celebrate the history of a peaceful and prosperous nation, a just and stable society, and encourage patriotism among its citizens. (Source: Reuters)

The annual carnival is a distinctive cultural feature of Venice, the city of canals. (Source: Reuters)

Festival participants get to dress up as or see characters that can only be found in fairy tales or history, or become people they're not. (Source: Reuters)

The Venice Carnival was first held in 1296. After a long hiatus, the festival was revived in 1980 and was held regularly every year until the Covid-19 pandemic. (Source: Reuters)

In 2021, the festival was not held, and in 2020, the event was open only to locals. In 2022, the Venice city authorities canceled the opening "Flying Angels" performance and parade. It wasn't until 2023 that all festival activities returned to normal. (Source: Reuters)

There isn't one main theme that runs throughout the years; each spring has a different theme, but the common goal is to celebrate the beauty of Italian culture and create a joyful, lively atmosphere where people can enjoy the refreshing spirit of the new year. (Source: Reuters)

2025 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Casanova, the Italian explorer. (Source: Reuters)

The brilliant explorer Giacomo Casanova, born in 1725, was renowned for his adventurous life, profound intellect, and deep love of art and beauty. (Source: Reuters)

Therefore, this year's festival is themed "Il Tempo di Casanova" (literally: "The Age of Casanova"), a special edition honoring Giacomo Casan - one of Venice's most iconic figures. (Source: Reuters)

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