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ITALIAN FESTIVALS
There are numerous Feast Days and Holy days that are celebrated in Italy See Catholic Online for a calendar list of the feast days for Saints and holy days. There are hundreds of local and national festivals throughout Italy. These can involve dressing up, folk-dancing, music-making, horse-racing, wine-tasting, meat-eating, boat-carrying, crossbow-shooting, opera-singing, football-playing and more. Generally speaking, the best places for festivals in Tuscany and Umbria are Siena, Florence, Assisi, Viareggio and Gubbio. i-escape.com provides a list of some of the chief dates for Italian Holidays and Festivals.
	The 10 days Venice Carnevale every February/March is a spectacular carnival. It opens with the opulent and spectacular Doge's ball in the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Carnevale is an opportunity to don costumes and masks and immerse yourself in the atmosphere of colourful celebrations of lavish masked costume balls and street parades. Even if you do not participate, a mask from Venice would make a decorative souvenir see Venice Mask Shop See also the Venice Website .
ItaliaFestival	ItaliaFestival - a guide to music theatre, dance, cinema, and multimedia festivals throughout Italy.
Hostetler	An American family that have lived in a small village near Milan have compiled a list of Italian Holidays and festivals . .
Italian Film Festival	ItalianFilm.com -
In Italy Online	InItaly.com - Festivals and Pageants
Rick Steves	Rick Steves European Festivals listed month by month