VENICE (Reuters Life!) - The head of state of a Gulf country partied dressed like a catholic cardinal in Venice this weekend, his identity disguised beneath a carnival mask. He was one of the 400 ...

Although accounts on the exact start of the Venice Carnival vary–some attribute it to the 11th century while others claim it began in the 12th–most agree it was a celebration of the incognito. With a ...

IT TOOK ME 24 hours in Venice to crash my first party. On my way to the Palazzetto Pisani for a Mozart-themed ball, I’d gotten lost down a moonlit alleyway. I’d caught sight of a woman in an ...

As the saying goes, "A Carnevale ogni scherzo vale." When it's carnival time, anything goes. Anything, which means that pranks are very common during this 10-day period before Lent. Carnevale is ...