Viareggio carnival
| Viareggio
Carnival 2005 23/30 january 6/8/13 february |
In the February of 1873, to the tables of the coffee of the Casinò,
between the young people of the Viareggio then one paraded of
carriages in order celebrating the carnival bloomed the idea,
to the open, in public square, between people. Fat tuesday of
February 1873, is matured the Carnival of Viareggio therefore
like today is known: spectacular event between beautifulst and
huge of the world. In the ending of the century, you appeared,
in means to the people festivity who was endured large, the wagons
prevails them, true and own monuments, constructed in wood and
juta, model from sculptors and puttinges to you with from carpenters
and smiths that, in Dock, on the ports of call of the shipyards,
they knew to create boats destined to defy with succeeding insidiose
waters and the twenty capricious ones of the oceans; from then
the constructed wagons therefore of year in year, they have been
annoying in a sea of overwhelmed and amused people. |
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Mazzini square, 22 VIAREGGIO Phone 0584.962568 Fax 0584.47077 email: info@ilcarnevale.com |
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first world war seemed to destroy, with to the beautiful ones
époque in Europe, also the Carnival to Viareggio, than
restart, more splendid and instead huger, in 1921, when quite
the masked wagons paraded on the two wonderful tree-lined avenues,
parallels between they and to the beach; the tree-lined avenues
to sea, the mythical walk, than in summer were the meeting of
the national and international worldliness, from that moment were,
with fifth of the Alps Apuane, the natural and huge stage, of
incomparable beauty, where show off, every year richer than animation
and brio, the carnevalesche constructions. |
Some
historic manifest of Carnival |
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In
the 1921 the first official song was sung, the "Goblet of
Champagne", puts into effect them hymn of the carnival. Also
the masks were animated to suon of music for before the time,
because the band found place to edge of an entitled wagon "Tonin
di Burio" that represented the wedding festivity in farmyard
of one the farm house. Two years after the "Pierrot",
nostalgic and romantic figure of the carnival, was the first mask
to move the head and the eyes. In 1925, for initiative of some
constructors, the papier-matche was introduced, in order to realize
the wagons, than from then it has concurred the colossal but lightest
constructions, that is able large masks to balance in the air
defying the law of the gravita one. With such innovation it can
be said that the history of the Carnival of Viareggio becomes
legend, thanks to the constructors that, for their creative abilities,
was calls to you, from the national and international press, wizards
of the papier-matche. |
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the 1930 Uberto Bonetti, the painter who has illustrated the magic
of the carnival with official manifestos, devised Burlamacco,
the today famous mask, than in The Manifest of 1931, on the background
of the wharves prosthesis on the sea, appears in company of Ondina.
Today Burlamacco finds place ira the Italian masks to Rome near
the museum of the Folklore and the tradition and is exposed to
Paris near the Musée de the Homme. |
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After the second world war, rebirth in 1946
and, from then, King Carnival it has tempered its sceptre, having
passed undamaged - june of 1960 - through a frightful one rogo
of the hangars where the wagons were constructed. Since beginning
(1954) the national Tv before, and Eurovision (1958) then, have
consecrated the great manifestation transporting ovunque, via
ether Viareggio and the Carnival. From always, every year, a long
formation of illustrious hosts, politicians, personages of the
sport and the show, has come to Viareggio in order to admire the
own one effige in papier-matche, therefore like to every masked
course dì every edition of the carnival hundred of thousands
of persons has decreed the happened one of this large events.Nel
1998 the Carnival of Viareggio has celebrated 125 years of life
in the splendor of an entire month of diurnal festivities and
nocturnal and hour, fort of its continues happened, by now watches
with all its forces to great editions of the future, that they
will be spectacular with wagons, paraded, quarters festivities,
veglioni in mask, reviews of every kind and, before between these,
the world-wide torneo of soccer "Goblet Carnival". In
the 2001 the new City of the carnival has been inaugurate, a complex
destined to become one great attraction, characterized from new
hangars, from an arena for the shows, from the multimediale museum,
the school of the cartapesta and other cultural initiatives and
of entertainment. Carnival, festivity of the peace, the love,
the solidarity. Every year, they come to Viareggio thousands of
persons. You come, you come also!
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Viareggio
Carnival 2005 |
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| Tickets: Normal € 13,00 Comitive (25 pax min) € 12,00 Cildren from 11 to 12 years old € 9,00 Tribune numerate € 13,00 Free admission for cildren under 11 years old More informations about tickets: Phone (39) 0584 962568 More useful informations: Cittadella del Carnevale Relations office |
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