Venetian word of the day: Osmarin
Osmarin sounds such an exotic word and conjures up romantic images of Venetian merchants travelling to the east. But what does it really mean?
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Carnival in Venice
Tomorrow, 27 January 2018, is the official start of what is probably the most famous carnival in the world, the Carnevale di Venezia. Soon the calli and campi will be full of people, mostly tourists and mostly French, sporting costumes ranging from the outlandish to the opulent, and posing for photographs evocative of the final century of …