VENICE, Italy (AP) — The outlet weekend of Carnival in Venice culminated with a water procession alongside the Grand Canal that completed in entrance of the Rialto Bridge with a flourish of colourful streamers and confetti — all utterly biodegradable.
Boats sail as confetti explodes within the air below the Rialto bridge all over the normal water parade, a part of the historic Venice Carnival, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Boats sail as confetti explodes within the air below the Rialto bridge all over the normal water parade, a part of the historic Venice Carnival, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, on the Florian Cafe’ in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, on the Florian Cafe’ in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Carnival mask on sale all over the Venetian historic carnival in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Carnival mask on sale all over the Venetian historic carnival in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Venice’s Carnival brings 1000’s of other people to the lagoon town to observe the water procession, some of the match’s highlights, and take a look at other people in elaborate costumes and mask who wander the slender alleys and collect in Piazza St. Marco to be photographed.
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival on the Florian Cafe’ in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival on the Florian Cafe’ in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
The preferred match forces government to designate some alleyways as one-way, to stay pedestrians shifting.
Revellers collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival show their mask in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival show their mask in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb.15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb.15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival show their mask in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival show their mask in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers take part within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival, in St. Mark’s Sq., Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
A reveller collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival rests as a gondola passes via, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
A reveller collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival rests as a gondola passes via, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
Revellers collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival show their mask in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
Revellers collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival show their mask in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
A reveller collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival displays her masks in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)
A reveller collaborating within the celebrations of the ancient Venetian Carnival displays her masks in St. Mark’s Sq. in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photograph/Antonio Calanni)Learn Extra
This yr’s Carnival celebrations, which run via March 4, are devoted to the famed philanderer Giacomo Casanova, who was once born in Venice 300 years in the past.
