In the 1980s, the Carnival of Venice was revived and the city has become a major centre of international conferences and festivals, such as the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, which attract visitors from all over the world for their theatrical, cultural, cinematic, artistic, and musical productions

As of 2000, the Festival of Caricatures and Aphorisms has been held as part of Strumica's Carnival celebrations.

Limassol is famous in Cyprus for its festivals, like the Carnival and Wine Festival.

Parade, which is The World's Largest Non-Motorized Parade, Friday's Grand Floats Parade, the Horse Show, Governor's Luncheon, Carnival, Prayer Breakfast, Car Show, 5K and 10K Runs, and Festival Beauty Reviews.

The term is best known for its association with New Orleans Mardi Gras, but is also used in other Carnival celebrations around the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida, and Springtime Tallahassee as well as in La Crosse, Wisconsin and at the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.

Major annual community events largely reflect traditional small town American life and include the Easter Egg Hunt, Buck Creek Festival, 4th of July Picnic, concert and fireworks, Fall Carnival, Spring Fling, and the Christmas Parade.

Community organizations stage a number of regionally known annual events, including Sandpoint Winter Carnival in February ; Lost in the 50s vintage car show in May ; the Festival at Sandpoint summer music festival in August ; and Idaho State Draft Horse International show in September.

* Dark Carnival Film Festival

The annual Winter Carnival and Summer Festival are two of the highlights.

Sitges (, Catalan for silos ) is a town about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona, renowned worldwide for its Film Festival and Carnival.

It has thus seen various events staged on it, most regularly during the Fête nationale du Québec, the Quebec Winter Carnival, and the Quebec City Summer Festival.

The town has a number of annual events, including the ' Lyme Regis Carnival and Regatta ', the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival ( in conjunction with the London Natural History Museum ) and Mary Anning Day.

The band announced a few shows for 2007, including their annual Winter Carnival ( sans 2006 ), which stopped in Denver and Vail Colorado, and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival as well as the 10, 000 Lakes Festival.

Many festivals take place on an annual basis such as Carnival, Children Festival, Lake Day, and Shkodra Jazz Fest.

* Onagori Festival in Noshiro Kanto matsuri, Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, Samba Carnival and more.

* November: Chuo-koen Sports Carnival, Nigiwai Festival, Chuo-koen Agricultural Festival, Ushitaki-yama Red Maple Festival.

Music institutions in Anguilla include the Soroptimist Club and the annual Tranquility Jazz Festival, though the island's most famous music celebration is Carnival, held near the beginning of August ( the first Friday after the first Monday ); it includes calypso competitions, j ' ouvert, street dances, boat races, costumed parades and stilt walking, and beachside barbecues.

The Beer Festival the Friday and Saturday after the Carnival, Michelmas Fair-the end of September and the Christmas Lights Festival on the first Saturday in December.

Nova Roman citizens participate in such events as the Festival of Ancient Heritage in Svishtov, Bulgaria, the defunct Roman Market Day in Wells Harbor Park, Maine and Forum Fulvii in Italy, Ludi Savarienses Historical Carnival or the Aquincum Floralia Spring Festival in Hungary.

La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.

La fiera would feature characters singing in three languages, a bustling portrayal of the Ascension-tide Fair and Carnival in Venice, and large and lengthy ensembles and choruses.

Other notable films of the 1930s included René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ), Jacques Feyder's Carnival in Flanders ( 1935 ), and Julien Duvivier's La belle equipe ( 1936 ).

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

In Haitian Carnival, there are beautiful costumes, floats, Rara parades, masks, foods, and popular Konpa bands known around the world, such as T-Vice, Djakout # 1, Sweet Micky also known as the new president of Haiti Michel Martelly, Kreyol La, D. P.

In La Ceiba in Honduras, Carnival is held on the fourth Saturday of every May to commemorate San Isidro.

The Diablada of Oruro | Diablada, dance primeval, typical and main of Carnival of Oruro a Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity | Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity since 2001 in Bolivia ( Image: Fraternidad Artística y Cultural " La Diablada ")

La Diablada Carnival, takes place in the city of Oruro in central Bolivia.

* La Foire aux immortels ( The Carnival of Immortals, 1980 )

The Carnival of La Louvière is called Laetare, after the Latin verb meaning “ to enjoy ” ( the introit at mass on the fourth Sunday of Lent begins Laetare Jerusalem, Rejoice Jerusalem ).

The Diablada of Oruro | Diablada dance primeval, typical and main of Carnival of Oruro a Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity | Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity since 2001 in Bolivia ( Image: Fraternidad Artística y Cultural " La Diablada ").

On the north side of the third floor are David Alfaro Siqueiros ' three-part La Nueva Democracía ( New Democracy ) and Rivera's four-part Carnaval de la Vida Mexicana ( Carnival of Mexican Life ); to the east is José Clemente Orozco's La Katharsis ( Catharsis ), depicting the conflict between humankind's ' social ' and ' natural ' aspects.

For instance, in La Ceiba the annual carnival is a week-long celebration with music, exhibitions and special food, culminating in the most popular carnival in the country: " The Carnival of Friendship ".

These get played on the radio during the Carnival period and some of them, such as the Saludo Araca La Cana 1937, are cherished by Uruguayans as cultural icons.

In 1607 her composition of a Carnival entertainment entitled La stiava seems to have led to her hiring as a musician in the service of the Medici court.

She performed Chopin's Polish songs in Paris with Nikita Magaloff, her Liszt-Bartok performance in La Scala and her concert regarding ' the operas about Turks ' within the Venice Carnival at La Fenice Theatre, show her innovative character as an opera singer.

Immortal ( French: Immortel ( ad vitam )) is a 2004 English language, French-produced live-action and animated science fiction film, directed by Enki Bilal and loosely based upon his comic book La Foire aux immortels ( The Carnival of Immortals ).

Before the Carnival of Mazatlan he was a serious candidate to be burned as a " burn of bad humor " ( La quema del mal humor ), an event that burns the people or event that represents the worst thing for the people, But since he was a diputade with license and using his influence and money in the town of Mazatlan he was saved of that " un-honor " despite he won the votes of the people of Mazatlan to be burned.

He appeared in Pasquale Anfossi's La vera costanza, and for the Carnival opposite Benini in Grétry's Zémire et Azor.

: Carnival in La Querce. February

Other festivals celebrated here include Carnival, the feast of San Isidro Labrador on 15 May and a crafts and livestock fair called the Nao de China in November.

Many of his variations ( and he has become the de facto master of this musical genre ), including Le Streghe, The Carnival of Venice, and Nel cor più non mi sento, were composed, or at least first performed, before his European concert tour.

The song was claimed to be authored by Ernesto dos Santos, best known as, with co-composition attributed to Mauro de Almeida, a well-known Carnival columnist.

One of the best-known is Stavelot, where the Carnival de la Laetare takes place on Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent.

Carnival in Malta ( Maltese: il-Karnival ta ' Malta ) has had an important place on the Maltese cultural calendar for just under five centuries, having been introduced to the Islands by Grand Master Piero de Ponte in 1535.

Ironically, although Portugal introduced Christianity and the customs related to Catholic practice to Brazil, the country has begun to adopt some aspects of Brazilian-style Carnival celebrations, in particular those of Rio de Janeiro with sumptuous parades, samba and other Brazilian musical elements.

And in the Central Portugal towns of Nelas and Canas de Senhorim, Carnival is one of the most important tourist events in the region, attracting thousands of visitors yearly.

The " Dances de Carnival " are allegorical and comedic tales acted out in the streets throughout the festival.

Arguably the most famous locales in Spain are Santa Cruz, Las Palmas, Sitges, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Tarragona, Solsona, Cádiz, Badajoz, Bielsa ( an ancestral Carnival celebration ), Plan, San Juan de Plan, Laza, Verín, Viana and Xinzo de Limia.

Carnival Queen of Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2009

Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife now aspires to become a World Heritage Site.

The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife now aspires to become a World Heritage Site.

This declaration by UNESCO will, occur, further promoting international had Santa Cruz de Tenerife, being the first Carnival of Spain to obtain this recognition, for its permanent in time and it would reach the five continents through UNESCO.

Carnival de Solsona takes place in Solsona, Lleida in central Catalonia.

The 2012 Kanaval was a big success, and Haiti will have a Kanaval de Fleur ( Flower Carnival ) in July 2012 due to the success of the main Spring carnival this year in Haiti.

In the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, in the city of Bluefields, the Carnival, better known as Palo de Mayo ( or Mayo Ya!

Both Mazatlán's and Veracruz's celebrations are often compared to the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro or New Orleans.

In Santa Cruz de la Sierra, at the east side of the country, the tropical weather allows a Brazilian-type Carnival, with agropuations of people called " Comparsas " dancing traditional songs in matching uniforms.

Still, Rio de Janeiro carnival is considered world-wide, as the capital of the Brazilian Carnival, not only because of its historical origins, size and also world wide fame.

He and his close friend, the humanist poet Girolamo Benivieni, composed lauds and other devotional songs for the Carnival processions of 1496, 1497 and 1498, replacing the bawdy Carnival songs of the era of Lorenzo de ’ Medici.

In these plays such as Le Bal des voleurs ( Carnival of Thieves ), Le Rendez-vous de Senlis ( Dinner with the Family ) and Léocadia ( Time Remembered ), the focus is on " the burden of the environment and especially of the past on a protagonist seeking a happier, freer existence.

* Pièces roses ( Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1942 ) – comprises " Le Bal des voleurs ," " Le Rendez-vous de Senlis ," and Léocadia ;" Le Bal des voleurs translated by Lucienne Hill as Thieves ' Carnival ( London: Methuen, 1952 ); Le Rendez-vous de Senlis translated by Edwin O. Marsh as Dinner with the Family ( London: Methuen, 1958 ); Léocadia translated by Patricia Moyes as Time Remembered ( London: S. French, 1954 ).