BIG masked
the giant papier-mache floats, the result of the extraordinary skill and creativity dell'inimitabile sculptural and pictorial magicians viareggini parade on stage Natural Promenade of Viareggio (from http://www.viareggio.ilcarnevale.com/ )
(2009 poster)
Sunday, February 8, the first part of the parade Carnival of Viareggio. This event takes place every year since 1873. The Carnival of Viareggio, says the tradition, started as a protest against the salt tax and the time that many citizens had to pay. Masks that still parade on the promenade of Viareggio in the up and the people, between the screams, the laughter of the multitude of children, continue to satirically protest. Anyone who has seen at least once the Carnival of Viareggio and its enormous wagons with caricatures of politicians, popes, presidents, etc etc if they have realized. Besides, things that today there are all right to protest and carnival floats do not flinch.
The mask of the Carnival of Viareggio is Burlamacco, invented by the Futurist painter Uberto Bonetti Viareggio in 1930. This year marks the centenary of the birth of the painter, one more element that characterize this event in 2009.
Segnalo official site of the carnival of Viareggio http://www.viareggio.ilcarnevale.com/ where you can find events, dates, photographs, rankings of the wagons, etc. etc.. and, for collectors, always through the site, you can access the price list to buy individual parts of the wagons. With only € 1000 you buy real works of art.
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