{"id":1149,"date":"2012-01-25T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2012-01-25T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T09:43:30","slug":"wear-a-mask-in-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/2012\/01\/wear-a-mask-in-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wear a mask in &#8230;&#8230; Venice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carnevale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1150\" title=\"Carnevale di Venezia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carnevale.jpg\" alt=\"Carnevale di Venezia\" width=\"490\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carnevale.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/carnevale-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\"><\/a>If <em>Venice<\/em> is considered to be a mysterious city it is even more fascinating during the <strong>Carnival<\/strong>, even now that 900 years have passed from the first document that refers to this famous festival.<!--more--><br>\nThe <em>first testimony<\/em>, in fact, dates back to<strong> 1094<\/strong>, under the doge Vitale Falier, in a document that speaks of public entertainments during the days preceding the Lent, but the official act that declares the Carnival a public holiday is of the year 1296.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere of the Venetian Carnival is magic also thanks to the use of <strong>wonderful masks<\/strong>, tradition due to the illusion, given by the Venetian oligarchy to the lower classes, to become, for a short period of the year, similar to the powerful and rich people; a useful way, therefore, to control social tensions.<\/p>\n<p>In the narrow streets of this enchanting city for ten days there is a continuous representation of theatrical playfulness, all in costume to celebrate the charm of a <strong>world<\/strong> made of<strong> balls<\/strong>, <strong>jokes<\/strong>, <strong>exclusive galas<\/strong> and<strong> romantic dates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment with the <strong>Venice Carnival 2012<\/strong> begins on the <em>4th February<\/em> and lasts until the <em>21th\u00a0 February<\/em>;\u00a0 also this year there will be a lot of events:\u00a0 from the Feast of the Maries and\u00a0 the competition for the best mask of the Carnival 2012, to the performances in St. Mark\u2019s Square and the famous Flight of the Angel.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Venice to experience the<strong> magic of\u00a0 Carnival<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/eventi\/venezia-carnevale_di_venezia-1325\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/veneto\/mira\/farm_house_santa_barbara.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1152\" title=\"Farm house Santa Barbara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/agri-Santa-Barbara1.jpg\" alt=\"Farm house Santa Barbara\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/veneto\/mira\/farm_house_santa_barbara.html\">Farm house Santa Barbara<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Mira \u2013 VE<\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Venice is considered to be a mysterious city it is even more fascinating during the Carnival, even now that 900 years have passed from the first document that refers to this famous festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[561,562,563,53,560],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-fair-exhibitions","tag-carnival","tag-farm-house-santa-barbara","tag-farm-houses-venice","tag-venice","tag-venice-carnival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agriturismi.it\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}