With the Giovedì Grasso (Fat Thursday) the Carnival season enters the final week of celebrations. Carnival of Venice is internationally renowned, undoubtably the most important in Italy.
You can know more about the programme of this final week by visiting http://www.carnevale.venezia.it/.
Below a video of Venice Carnival 2007 edition
(via YouTube - posted by bibikappa ).
Good news for those who are planning to fly between Canada and Italy next Summer. Beginning May 3, 2008, Zoom Airlines will start nonstop service to Rome from Toronto and Montreal.
On May 3, Zoom will start the flights from Toronto’s Pearson International (YYZ) to Rome’s Fiumicino Airport (FCO); the service will be with a twice-weekly frequency.
On May 6, it will start the nonstop flights between Montreal’s Trudeau International (YUL) and Rome’s Fiumicino Airport (FCO). Zoom Airlines will fly once-weekly on this route.
Zoom Airlines is offering this new service with one-way rates starting at $349.
( If you enjoyed this post Bookmark it on del.icio.us )If you are visiting Italy early February and are looking for a place to celebrate Valentine’s day, Camogli, a small town located on the Italian Riviera, is the right place for you.
Just a few km away from the Cinque Terre area, located between Portofino Mountain and the Ligurian Sea, Camogli is a tourist resort with narrow streets which are lined by tall columns of pastel colored homes. It offers an ideal setting for romance.
Furthermore, from Feb. 3 through 18, Camogli will be hosting a Valentine festival.
For two weeks, many Valentine themed events are held in the town. Restaurants and pasticcerie offer dinners and cakes related to Valentine themes. A special Valentine market sells luxurious gifts on the promenade.
If you choose to dine at any Camogli’s restaurant, try local delicacies such as handmade pasta with pesto sauce, seafood, and the local dessert specialty, chocolate-rum Camogliesi.
When: Feb 3 -18
Where: Camogli (see on the interactive map)
Getting there: the best way is by train; it’s just a 20-minute train ride from Genoa.
Find accommodations in Camogli and Liguria.
The carnival celebrations in Tuscany are wild and exciting. Visiting Tuscany the days before Lent and partying with the townspeople of some of the nice towns in the surroundings of Florence offers you a genuine way to experience the Tuscan culture.
In Florence, the annual Worldwide Florentine Carnival (”Carnevale Internazionale Fiorentino“) ia a cosmopolitan celebration that welcomes customs and costumes from around the world.
On the Sunday prior to Fat Tuesday (last day of Carnival celebrations) each community in Florence celebrates its own party, then everyone unites as a whole in a procession that begins at Piazza Ognissanti and arrives at Piazza della Signoria where, on a stage before the Palazzo Vecchio, representatives of the many communities greet their fellow citizens.
When: Feb 3, 2008 (annual; Sunday prior to Fat Tuesday)
Colourful spectacle on Piazza di Spagna in Rome on Wednesday, when a man dumped what he said were some 500,000 multicolored plastic balls down the Spanish steps. The waterfall of plastic balls was released from the top of the steps into the Piazza di Spagna, ending up filling the fountain, “La Barcaccia”.
The man, identified as Graziano Cecchini, is well-known for having colored with red dye Rome’s world famous Trevi Fountain (see video “Trevi Fountain in Red”) last October 2007.
Below the video of his latest improvised art installation.
(via YouTube - posted by REPORTERMARCO).
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