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Venice Carnival began in 1162 in celebration of the Venice Republics victory over its enemy the Patriarch or Aquileia. The people of Venice gathered in the Piazza San Marco (Saint Marks Square) to dance and celebrate their victory.
The tradition of the mask came later as a way for different social classes to be able to mix and mingle to engage in all vices, and anti-establishment rhetoric in anonymity.
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