When the migrants were us: an interesting film festival organized by the NGO ONLUS Emergency, which since June 5th has been thrilling all its participants. A cycle of appointments through which to show not only cinematographic masterpieces but to bring to the stage an important theme of great impact, especially for today’s times, that of...
By now there is very little time left for the historical regatta in Venice, one of the most important events for the sport “Voga alla Veneta” . In fact, every year, every first Sunday of September, Venice welcomes this event of ancient origins: it is thought that the first races were competed in the thirteenth...
La Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, one of the most famous buildings of Venice, was built around 1630, following a plague epidemic, to honor the Blessed Virgin and celebrate the end of that terrible event. The basilica, directly overlooking the Grand Canal, is accessed by a staircase that seems to emerge from the water;...
After almost five centuries from its conception, the Sagra del Redentore is still one of the most important events involving the city of Venice and its surroundings. At the end of a pestilential epidemic (around 1570), the Venetian Senate decided to build a temple to Christ the Redeemer; the work was commissioned to Andrea Palladio,...
The hot weather troubles you and you’re looking for a cool place, where to spend a good afternoon? Then you need to take advantage of the exhibit Maurice Marinot. Il vetro, 1911-1934 at Le Stanze del Vetro. Le Stanze del Vetro are an expository place located in a permanent way on the island of San...
There are three days left before one of the most awaited events of the year, the Vogalonga of Venice. Let’s know its story! The Vogalonga is a non-competitive regatta of rowing boats that takes place in the period between May and June. It all starts in 1974: during a friendly regatta the idea of organizing...
From February 23 to June 9 it is possible to visit the exhibition Canaletto x Venezia at the Doge’s Palace. The Duke’s apartment opens the door to an exhibit that takes place in eleven rooms, which host 25 paintings of the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal, otherwise known as Canaletto. The artist’s paintings with other 80...
On 25 April in Venice people celebrate not only the Liberation Day, but also the Feast of Saint Mark. The feast of Saint Mark appears during the serenissima Republic of Venice in the form of a great procession: the main religious and civil authorities of the city used to get together in the square of...
On the 8th of March, the International Day of the Woman, the Cinema-Theatre Bersagliere presents the new edition of the cultural project of L’occhio delle donne (“The women’s eye”) L’occhio delle donne is a film festival of movies directed by female directors with a program of five movies for every Friday night of March. The...
The Carnival is a festival without a fixed date, celebrated in countries with Catholic tradition. Today the festival has lost his religious nature, acquiring different connotations in the spirit of the joke and the fiction. From a Catholic viewpoint, the term derives from the Latin carnem levare, which means “remove the meat”, because it refers...