Carnival is the most eagerly awaited event of the year in Venice: ten days of parading in masks and costumes, of shows, music, games and colours. The city goes crazy and fills with jubilant crowds of people. In St. Mark’s Square and in the thousands of other squares there is a host of theatrical performances, masquerade parades, concerts and historical re-enactments, entertainment for children and wild ball nights as well as gastronomic tastings and other sensory experiences.
In the wake of the success of previous editions, let us gain more information about the world through our 5 senses: sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell. The world is above all our 6th sense; it is in our minds. The format for the Venice Carnival already bears the promise of something new and different in the title: Sensation, 6 senses for 6 districts.

The senses will be expressed through elements of scenography, performances by theatrical groups and artists, concerts and light design installations. San Polo will be the district dedicated to sight, Santa Croce to smell, Dorsoduro to hearing, Castello to touch and Cannaregio to taste. St. Mark will be the sensory, imaginative and thinking centre of the City that embraces the mind – a real intersection of all the senses, in all senses. St. Mark will, therefore, be the pulsating centre of everything, a mind place and sensorial mainstay, hosting the main stage on which musical, theatrical and artistic performances will be alternating.  Great events for the new Carnival of Venice 2010.