Venice carnival continues with water parade

(9 Feb 2020) VENICE CARNIVAL CONTINUES WITH WATER PARADE The famously known "pantegana", a boat made in the shape of a giant water rat, led the annual Carnival Water Parade in the Italian city of Venice on Sunday (9 FEBRUARY 2020). Thousands of people gathered to see the parade, filling the banks of the canals. However about 100 boats were missing from this year's parade, out of protest. On 19 January the Venetian rowing clubs were denied access to the Grand Canal when protesting against the damage caused by wave motion. This year's parade was thus composed of mainly rowing clubs from the surrounding mainland region. The audience was still able to admire all sorts of costumed rowers making their way up the canal. This year the Venice carnival, a public party which lasts for weeks and leads into the Roman Catholic period of Lent, runs from February 8 to March 25. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Google+: https://plus.google.com/b/102011028589719587178/+APArchive​ Tumblr: https://aparchives.tumblr.com/​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e872e0d3717c45babd2634cf06b9e79a