Experience the Venice Carnival 2006 - Italy - the oldest carnival in the world!

2005-11-02

From 17th - 28th February next year you can enjoy hundreds of entertainment opportunities at the traditional Venice Carnival. It's a party with no barriers or borders, and it's arranged in one of the most amazing and famous historic city in the world. For more than 200 years, Venice has been a wonderful place for fancy-dress parties, jokes and sneers. And for over 20 years, Venice has been welcoming masqueraders, visitors and tourists who want to join the carnival and have fun in the late winter.

Photo. A doll with a fancy carnival dress. It`s not the way the inhabitants in Venice usual dress up. © Travel Explorations.

Click on this link if you want to join the big party- Portale di Venezia: Carnival Venice 2006.

See also reports and photos from this year`s arrangement: Carneval Venice 2005.

I addition to celebrating the carnival there are lot of wonderful buildings and sites to admire around in Venice. One of the them is the magisterial Church of Santa Maria della Salute, which rises on Dorsoduro, one of Venice's six sestieri, or districts. It`s built on more than a million pilings.

Photo. Church of Santa Maria della Salute (coming up)

This masterpiece is designed in baroque style by Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena. The church was commissioned as an offering to God when the plague devastated Venice in the 1600s.

So take a enjoyable tour to Venice and dress up as you have never done before. Float around in the channals and admire the unique environments.

Stein Morten Lund, 19 December 2005

Additional information
Read our article: Floating around in Venice .

Read more articles about Venice on our website Travel Explorations.