The best of the web In the Italian city of Venice is the carnavalsperiode kicked off with a real spectacle on the water. A lot of masked artists gave the best of themselves on the Rio di Cannaregio, one of the most famous canals of Venice.

The theme this year is the moon, because exactly fifty years ago the first human foot on the moon. In Othello, a work of William Shakespeare, is the moon seen as something that people crazy.

The carnival in Venice takes until the fifth of march.