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The very famous Verona Carnival returns to cheer up the city from Friday 6th January!
The opening of the event is scheduled at 10.00 a.m. in Piazza San Zeno. Sunday 21st special election of the Papa del Gnoco, gathered in a conclave composed of 21 persons that had wear the mask of the city in the past, in Piazza San Zeno, who will elect the new successor and then the official coronation on Tuesday 23rd at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia, where a great event with important guests from Verona is scheduled.
From February 16th to March 17th, the “Villaggio delle Tradizioni – Carnival of Verona” returns to the former Summer Gardens in Via Colombo, where you can find all the culinary traditions of our territory as well as workshops, events and live music.
The most awaited event, the traditional parade of the "venardì gnocolar", which this year has reached its 494th edition, will be held on Friday 9th February at 1.45 p.m.; in the late afternoon the show continues in Piazza San Zeno.
The festivities continue on Saturday 10th with Sabato filippinato, while Sunday 11th February at 2 p.m. takes place the traditional historical Cavalcata of Tomaso Da Vico in which a hundred horses will accompany the Papa del Gnoco from Castelvecchio to Piazza San Zeno to sanction the end of the carnival festivities.
In Piazza Dante, the Last Night of Carnival is celebrated on Shrove Tuesday, with the participation of street artists, make-up children and mascots on tour. But it's not over: Sunday 14 February in the afternoon there is the parade of Madonna Verona and the Verona masks in Piazza Erbe; Saturday 18 May from 8.00 p.m. to the start the parade of allegorical floats in the night Verona Allegra and finally Saturday 14 September closes the Carnival the Maccheronicum Convivio, in Piazza San Zeno.
