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The Sagra del Redentore
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The Sagra del Redentore

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 feast of Saint Mark and the bocolo
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The feast of Saint Mark and the bocolo

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...