VENICE—In a normal year during Carnival, St. Mark’s Square is invariably a sea of papier-mâché and feathers, heaving with Venetians and tourists dressed in ornate period costumes topped with ...

The Venice Carnival kicked off in typically extravagant style over the past week, as thousands of visitors to the lagoon city joined locals at the annual festival.

After two years of canceled or virtual events, Venice Carnival returned to the streets and palaces of the city this year.

This year’s Carnival celebrations, which run through March 4, are dedicated to the famed philanderer Giacomo Casanova, who was born in Venice 300 years ago.

Thousands of people revelled in the start of the annual Carnival celebrations in Venice on Saturday, marking a slow return to normality after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the two previous editions.

Carnival in Venice, Italy, is often linked to funny and terrifying masks, along with pageantry, allegorical wagons, dancers and extravagant costumes When one thinks of carnivals, Venice’s bright ...

The Italian canal city’s Carnival festivities should have started Saturday, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made its annual appointment for more than two weeks of merry-making impossible.

The Venice Carnival 2022 kicked off in the Italian lagoon city on Saturday, under limited anti-COVID measures that will allow the audience to experience a hybrid program of virtual and physical ...