CARNIVAL IN VENICE From half of 400 500 at the end of the most important days of Carnival were then, as today, Thursday and Fat Tuesday.

 In those days people attended the official celebrations, which took place in public squares. At the end of the eighteenth century, after the fall of the Venetian Republic, when the Treaty of Campoformio, the city was ceded to Austria by the French, the official Carnival in Venice slowly disappeared and reappeared only recently.

 He rallied to organize to bring it back to the ancient origins since the '80s. Today, the masks from all over the world flock to the fields of Venice, but above the Piazza San Marco and his coffee. Along with traditional masks and fanciful mix bizarre disguises, are organized dances, parties, concerts and theater performances.