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The masks of Carnevale personify Venice, a fantasy city whose real life is hidden behind a tourist veneer and hardly ever revealed to strangers.
Venice is like a stage and the triangle between Rialto, San Marco and Accademia like a revolving play.
The setting for Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, the city has drawn many a writer, poet and filmmaker under its romantic spell.
Carnevale is a time for dressing up, merriment, dance, mime, theatre, opera and parties; this is when you get to see behind the mask and into the dark side of the city.
But, even if you can’t visit during Carnevale, you’ll still get a taste of it in the many mask shops which grace the city...
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