In other places such as Brazil and Venice, the entire celebration period is called Carnival. In the U.S., Mardi Gras celebrations were introduced by 18th century French settlers who founded ...

Mardi Gras may be the most famous of these events. But the Venice carnival, first celebrated in 1162, is the most iconic. Drunken revelers in harlequin costumes, carrying flambeaux as they ...

Venice and New Orleans play host to some of the holiday’s most famous public festivities, drawing thousands of tourists and revelers every year, according to the History Channel. Mardi Gras is ...

Mardi Gras is coming. In some places — New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Venice — people have been celebrating for days or weeks, since Mardi Gras is the culmination of Carnival season. But in ...

New Orleans Mardi Gras costumes have more in common with “those of Nice, France, and Venice, Italy, both cities with longstanding Carnival traditions,” Smith said. “Keep in mind that ...

The date for Mardi Gras this year is Tuesday, March 4 and it will be marked with huge celebrations in New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro and Venice, amongst countless other cities. The origins of Mardi ...

Mardi Gras, a spectacle of vibrant colors ... with the city's streets pulsating to the rhythm of samba. Venice, Italy, boasts a Renaissance-inspired celebration, emphasizing masquerade balls ...

People having a good time pack the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana during Carnival a few days before Mardi Gras in 2010. Carnival seasons in Venice, Italy, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...

Different places have different Mardi Gras traditions. Venice, for example, celebrates Carnival season with elaborate disguises, and is home to some of the holiday’s most famous costumes.

Mardi Gras is synonymous with Carnival celebrations in New Orleans, Venice and Rio, but the day is marked in similarly festive fashion around the world in countries with large Roman Catholic ...

These are the established "characters" of the Venice carnival — and one way it differs from the New Orleans Mardi Gras, where revelers are more or less free to go where their fancy takes them.