Wow! I have been so busy that I have forgotten to update my blog! Time seems to be flying by faster day by day! Some of my friends and I traveled to the beautiful seaside town of Viareggio for the day/night on Tuesday ( Fat Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras) to see the Carnivale festival there! Viareggio, on the Tuscany coast, has one of the biggest Carnevale celebrations in Italy. Vaireggio Carival is known for its giant, allegorical paper mache floats used in parades not only on Fat Tuesday but also the three Sundays before and the Sunday following.estivals, cultural events, concerts, and masked balls take place throughout the carnival season both in Viareggio and nearby and restaurants have special carnival menus. It is the BIGGEST celebration that attracks people all over Europe to come join the party! The celebration will go till the early morning ending at about 5am. This is an experience everyone has to see to believe!
The carnival was amazing. We got there just as the parade was starting and walked along with it down to the beach.We stayed to watch the parade which turned out to be these GIGANTIC floats! They were so detailed and massive! Music was playing from them as the people on the floats were dressed in costumes according to the theme of the float. There must have been at least 20 floats in the parade. The parade itself took about 3 hours to go around each float just one time! We were singing and dancing and the costumes that people had were outstanding! Everyone (Parents, grandparents, friends, dogs) are dressed up in hilarious costumes from head to toe! We were the outcasts in our jeans and jackets :( ! We had the time of our lives until 10pm came and we had to catch a train back to Florence for school the next morning! It was a great memory! Carnivale ViaReggio is something I will remember forever and will have to come back and visit! Ciao! Xo
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