Concomitantly with the Biennale, the 900 square meters of exhibition space of the Arsenale Nord of Venice are hosting the exhibit In Dante Veritas by Vasily Klyukin. It’s not a simple exhibit, but a total, multi-sensorial and multi-medial installation that wants to recreate Dante’s inferno in a modern and apocalyptic key. 100 elements between sound...
Artist Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum is the not-to-be-missed and curious collateral event of the 58th edition of the Biennale of Venice. For those who are in Venice in this fall season, we suggest that you get away from the chaotic touristic attractions and...
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...