CARNIVAL OR CARNIVALE VIDEOS

It's a festive season which occurs immediately before lent (it lasts for a period of approximately six weeks leading up to Easter).

The main events are usually during February. Carnival typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of circus, mask and public street party. People often dress up during celebrations.

The carnival of Venice was for a long time the most famous carnival. The carnival now celebrated in some places have become divorced from their cycle in the religious year, becoming purely secular events, that take place in the summer months (Notting Hill,...).