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The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia; Venetian: Carneval de Venèsia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday ( Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras ), which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday .
Carnival in Italy is a farewell party to eat, drink, and have fun before the limitations and solemnity of Lent.About a month before Ash Wednesday, Italians celebrate over many weekends with parades, masks, and confetti.
Carnival in Rome, c. 1650 Rio's Carnival is the largest in the world according to Guinness World Records. [1]Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, [2] consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
According to this particular origin, if a person were to be deceived into thinking April 1 was still the day to celebrate the New Year they would be deemed the April Fool-- surely a boost to ...
Another account suggests that April Fools' Day is a descendant of the "Hilaria" festival, an ancient Roman celebration held annually on March 25 to celebrate the spring equinox and the goddess Cybele.
This terrible tradition is way older than you think. The post April Fools’ Day: How Did It Start, and Why Is It April 1? appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Carnevale, an Italian word derived from the Latin expressions carnis (meat or flesh; ablative: carne) and levare (remove), may refer to: Festivities.
The Carnival of Brazil (Portuguese: Carnaval do Brasil, IPA: [kaʁnaˈvaw]) is an annual festival held the Friday afternoon before Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.