“Up and Down the Bridges” is a walk in Venice involving all participants – young people, adults, families, school parties and sport groups – in a stroll through the Venice calli (alleys), all together in the name of friendship and solidarity. Every year the money raised from the event, after expenses, is donated to charity. …
Today Venice turns 1595 ! The legend says that March 25, year 421 is the date of the mythical foundation of the lagoon city, set to become one of the most important cities of Europe and the capital of an authoritative Republic with its own flag, territory, currency and laws. To the same year is …
11 march 2016: Opens the first dock wheelchair-accessible landing place to allow people with disabilities to comfortably get on and off a gondola, according to a press release from nonprofit organization Gondolas4ALL, which launched the endeavor in 2012. The platform allows a person to board directly and without exiting his or her wheelchair. Previously, wheelchair …
11 march 2016 : inauguration of the first accessible dock for gondolas in Venice Read More »
Today, March 8 we want to remember the first woman to receive an academic degree from an university: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia was born in Venice, in a noble family, June 5, 1646, the fifth daughter of Giovanni Battista Piscopia San Marco procuratore, a lover of literature and the sciences. House Cornaro was a meeting …
08 march Woman’s day : Elena Cornaro Piscopia the first woman to graduate in the world Read More »
It was 29 March 1516. The Serenissima had just ordered that seven hundred or so Jews (of both Italian and German origin) be enclosed in a small isolated area of the city that had once been the site of a foundry. An unhealthy area, it was near the prisons and the monastery of San Girolamo …
The Venice Ghetto 1516-2016 : 500 years anniversary Read More »
Consumers Association, Veneto Region and Consorzio Promovetro together to defend tourists from scams on Murano Glass The numbers speak for themselves: 80% of the products sold in the shops of Venice as Murano glass, are made outside of the Venice lagoon island. To pay for this illegal conduct are simultaneously producers and, of course, consumers, …
Murano Glass : together to defend tourists from scams Read More »
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DELUXE CRUISE IN VENICE : REGENT SEVEN SEAS EXPLORER Read More »
The Gondolier Association of Venice – which represents Venice’s 433 licensed gondoliers – now has a sponsor : Al Duca D’Aosta, the Venetian clothing group founded in 1902 by Emilio Ceccato, so the Gondolier Association have created an official logo and Enter the Dream uniform brand to symbolize the trade the world recognizes as the symbol of …
Venice’s Gondoliers official logo to safeguard trades and traditions of Gondoliers Read More »
Happy New Year …. Veneto ! Today March 1 , according to the calendar which was in use in the Republic of Venice , began the new year . For the current calendar in the Roman Empire and the Venetian Republic until 1582, January 1st did not correspond to the first day of the year …
On feb 22 at the Fincantieri shipyards in Marghera was held the traditional coin ceremony for Seabourn Encore , next flagship of the Seabourn fleet. During the event , two gold commemorative coins were welded at the mainmast . On these occasions tradition also it requires the presence of a godmother and therefore , to …
COIN CEREMONY FOR SEABURN ENCORE AT PORTO MARGHERA VENICE Read More »
