Once a year, however, the people of Venice don decadent costumes and masks to match, transforming the streets of this ancient city into a lavish masquerade ... famous maker of Venetian masks ...

There are more than a dozen masquerade balls extravagantly set in splendid palaces on and off the Grand Canal. "Venice is magic," says Claudio Czeller, dressed as a credible Venetian aristocrat of ...

In honor of his 80th birthday, last month, he shared his passion for Italy with friends at an extravagant masquerade ball in a historic palazzo on Venice ... patterns in the Venetian Princess ...