Includes: Venetian mask decoration mini-course in a typical Venetian mask workshop and a local escort who will take to there.

Meet your tour escort in St. Mark’s Square or at your hotel (if your hotel located in the St. Mark’s area)

and on foot to the mask shop for your mask decoration course.

Papier-mâché masks

These mini course are on decorating papier-mâché masks… they are presented in English and can be afforded by all.

No dangerous materials or tools are used.

The method of presenting the activities is the result of long experience working with all types of guests.

Each guest has its own particular needs and these activities can be easily adapted, giving the right emphasis to the theoretical part without taking anything away from the practical.

The aim of these activities is very ambitious and not only practical: on one hand we intend – indeed, we guarantee – that each participant, even those with no experience of manual work, will create a genuinely well-finished mask of which he or she can be proud and which will be a gratifying reminder of their stay in Venice.

But this practical experience is also an excellent opportunity for learning at least some of the more fascinating aspects of how people lived in Venice in days gone by.

Venice is the only city in the world where the mask became an object of common, general, everyday use for most of the year.

Venice Carnival

Before, during and after Carnival, life in Venice was conducted incognito and was extremely free and adventurous.

There is an enormous wealth of historic facts, anecdotes, customs and practices associated with the mask; a real treasure of knowledge that is hardly ever re-evaluated and offered to the public.

They want those who participate in our activities to get to know that world because they will be fascinated by it, and because they can then better understand the meaning of that strange object, the mask, which they will soon be decorating with their own hands.

The practical activity is therefore always preceded by a theoretical explanation which, though brief, gives the mark of quality to the whole experience and which, according to the particular needs of the group, entails the use of more or less sophisticated explanatory techniques.

Guests can choose among a selection of over 50 different mask models (classical and fancy ones) with any kind of decoration (watercolors, glitters, embroideries, feathers, “jewels”, strings or stick).

At the end of the course, make your own way back to the hotel taking your own mask with you – which will be professionally finished and unique and, why not, wear it!