Hail the Queen!  Hail the King!  Hail Summer! Hail Venice!  Hell Yeah!

Celebrate the beginning of summer in Venice at the annual Neptune Festival on June 23, 2018.    The day  will included:

• Pre party at The Sidewalk Cafe
• A festive, parade like stroll, complete with a mobile Venice Sign, to the waters of the mighty Pacific Ocean
• Coronation of Queen Carol Gronner and King Jeremy Marco.
• Post Party at The Sidewalk Cafe with live music

Thanks to Jessica Sugar Long and Todd Von Hoffmann for hosting this spectacular event!

Here is a brief history of the tradition of the Venice Neptune Festival.  Venice History: 1938 –  It began with the arrival of King Neptune in an outrigger canoe followed by Queen Venetia’s coronation and a royal procession along Ocean Front Walk. The queen read a proclamation commanding her subjects to engage in three days of fun and frivolity. The afternoon parade featured floats and costumed merrymakers wearing enormous plaster of paris heads that were manufactured in Arthur Reese’s studio. Windward Avenue was roped off for a street carnival where wandering gondoliers entertained.  (Insert taken from www.westland.net)

View past Neptune Festival photo galleries by Venice Paparazzi!

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