This is Carnevale in palazzo. 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 ...

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 that goes on for weeks. This is Carnival ...