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Venice Carnival
Dates for Venice Carnival 2010: Saturday, February 6, 2010 – Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dating back to the 13th century, the Venice Carnival is the biggest annual festival in the city of Venice. Visitors come from all over the world to join locals in participating in the Venice Carnival, which is famous for its elaborate masks and costumes.
The Venice Carnival is an event that celebrates the changing of seasons from winter to spring, and is celebrated every year before the start of Lent.
Each year the theme of Venice Carnival is different, but the events remain similar. There are street performances, balls, foodie events, music in the piazzas, parades,
If you plan to visit the Venice Carnival, make sure to book your flight, your hotel, and any Carnival-related entertainment well in advance. The city is very crowded during Carnival, so you don’t want to be stuck paying high prices at the last minute.
Every major guidebook company from Lonely Planet to Let’s Go makes at least one Italy guidebook.
Most guidebook companies also make a book on specific cities or regions, as the country’s territory and diversity of places to visit make for enough material for a full guidebook.
If you’re only planning on visiting one major city or region in Italy, getting a specific guidebook for the area is a good idea. For example, Lonely Planet’s book on Rome gives good in-depth coverage of Rome and the surrounding areas.
If you’ll be visiting lots of places in Italy, getting a larger guidebook like The Rough Guide to Italy is a good idea. If you’re handy with scissors, you can cut out the chapters you need and leave the rest of the guidebook at home to save room as you pack your bags.
Once you know what size Italy guidebook you need, shop around for a guidebook that fits your travel style. If you’re backpacking, Lonely Planet, Let’s Go, and the Rough Guide are some of the best Italy guidebooks.
If you’re going upscale, look into guides like the Hg2 Rome (A Hedonist’s Guide to Rome), the Wallpaper Guide to Venice, or the LUXE guide to Milan that offer more high-end suggestions for hotels, restaurants, and shopping.
If you love sightseeing, consider picking up the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Rome. With photos and illustrations on every page, the Eyewitness Rome guidebook is great for explaining the details of Rome’s many historic buildings and landmarks.
On a budget? A lot of the best deals on Italy guidebooks can be found on websites where travelers that have just returned from Italy are selling their books. If you’re lucky you can get a copy with good notes and suggestions written in!
One last tip on finding the best Italy guidebooks: check the date the guidebook was published. If it is more than a year old, don’t buy it. Things change so quickly in Italy that an old guidebook will be of little use to you today.
The following airlines fly to Venice Marco Polo airport:
Aegean Airlines
Aegean Airlines has flights to Venice from Athens
Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus has flights to Venice from Dublin
Aeroflot
Aeroflot has flights to Venice from Moscow
AirBaltic
AirBaltic has flights to Venice from Riga
Air Berlin
Air Berlin has flights to Venice from Düsseldorf
Air Europa
Air Europa has flights to Venice from Madrid
Air France
Air France has flights to Venice from Lyon and Paris
Air Transat
Air Transat has flights to Venice from Montreal and Toronto
Austrian Airlines
Austrian Airlines has flights to Venice from Vienna
Blue Air
Blue Air has flights to Venice from Suceava
British Airways
British Airways has flights to Venice from London
Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines has flights to Venice from Brussels
Carpatair
Carpatair has flights to Venice from Timisoara
Cimber Sterling
Cimber Sterling has flights to Venice from Copenhagen
Czech Airlines
Czech Airlines has flights to Venice from Prague
Delta Airlines
Delta Airlines has flights to Venice from Atlanta and New York
EasyJet
EasyJet has flights to Venice from Berlin, Bristol, East Midlands, Lyon, London, Naples, Paris, and Rome
Emirates
Emirates has flights to Venice from Dubai
Finnair
Finnair has flights to Venice from Helsinki
Flybaboo
Flybaboo has flights to Venice from Geneva and Nice
Iberia Airlines
Iberia Airlines has flights to Venice from Madrid
Jet2.com
Jet2.com has flights to Venice from Leeds and Edinburgh
KLM
KLM has flights to Venice from Amsterdam
Lufthansa
Lufthansa has flights to Venice from Frankfurt
Lufthansa
Lufthansa has flights to Venice from Munich and Dusseldorf
Meridiana
Meridiana has flights to Venice from Cagliari, Naples and Olbia
Norwegian Air Shuttle
Norwegian Air Shuttle has flights to Venice from Oslo
SAS
SAS has flights to Venice from Copenhagen
Swiss International Airlines
Swiss International Airlines has flights to Venice from Zurich
TAP Portugal
TAP Portugal has flights to Venice from Lisbon
TAROM
TAROM has flights to Venice from Bucharest
Thomson Airways
Thomson Airways has flights to Venice from London and Manchester
Tunisair
Tunisair has flights to Venice from Djerba, Monastir, and Tunis
Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines has flights to Venice from Istanbul
TUIfly
TUIfly has flights to Venice from Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover, and Stuttgart
US Airways
US Airways has flights to Venice from Philadelphia
Vueling Airlines
Vueling Airlines has flights to Venice from Barcelona, Madrid, and Seville
Wind Jet
Wind Jet has flights to Venice from Catania and Palermo
