Venice Carnival
📅 The two weeks before Shrove Tuesday, approximate dates
Masks, palaces and the Flight of the Angel: the world's most elegant carnival.
6 events with verified sources in Veneto, in calendar order.
No events match these filters.
📅 The two weeks before Shrove Tuesday, approximate dates
Masks, palaces and the Flight of the Angel: the world's most elegant carnival.
📅 Every year, on 21 May
On 21 May Verona celebrates Saint Zeno, the city's patron, in the Romanesque basilica that bears his name away from the centre.
📅 Every year, on 13 June
On 13 June Padua celebrates the Portuguese Franciscan who died here in 1231 and whom locals call simply "il Santo": his tomb, in the basilica that bears his name, draws pilgrims from across the Christian world.
📅 June-September, approximate dates
The world's most famous open-air opera season, inside the Roman amphitheatre.
📅 First Sunday of September
The period procession and races along the Grand Canal.
📅 Every year, on 7 and 8 September
On 8 September Vicenza celebrates the Madonna di Monte Berico, its patron. In dialect it is the festa dei Oto, the feast of the eighth, and it opens the evening before with the procession of the Jewel of Vicenza.