This year, the usual five carnival masked parades are planned for March 6, 8, and 13 on the extraordinary Liberty style staging along the seaside avenues of Viareggio. Every evening, there are carnival celebrations in all of the city’s different quarters. Viareggio Carnival’s peculiarity consists in giant, allegorical papier-maché floats – the biggest ones weighing about 40 tons each – and expresses nowadays the old knowledge going back to the ancient trionfi (war-victory feastings) of the Renaissance, adhering even more to the building techniques of the big sailing ships, a pride of Viareggio traditions. Source: www.viareggio.ilcarnevale.com