31st December 2008
St. Mark’s Square
Also this year the event will be held in St. Mark’s Square, starting from 10.00 p.m. on 31st December. In fact ‘Love’ is back, namely the new format for the New Year’s Eve to welcome all together the year 2009. Last year nearly seventy thousand people gathered for the biggest communal kiss in the world under a spectacular scenery: luminous hearts appearing in the sky in a firework display, a rain of multicolour hearts on people and hearts again running after one another on St. Mark’s bell tower. And lots of people in love in the Square, joining a simple and magic gesture at the same time, a mark of love, brotherhood and peace. Not loud fireworks but kisses that went round the world, by a media event which has become a symbol. ‘Love’ is back and that is a good thing, it is right that the most important night of the year leaves a love mark going beyond the borders of our town in order to involve people and

The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation has always paid a great attention to young artists. And it does that by carrying out its mission by which, for a century, it has awarded its ateliers to the worthiest artists. It is from here that ‘Opera 2008’ derives, namely a final exposition of the seven young artists and the two groups that made use of ateliers Blm in 2007/2008. besides, this year the foundation celebrates two important anniversaries: first of all the centenary of the expositive activity of such Institution, started in 1908. Since 2008, then, the ateliers have finally reached number twelve, as it has been confirmed in the memorandum of association of the Foundation. Curated by Mara Ambrozic and Stefano Coletto, the ‘Opera 2008’ exhibition is divided into two sections. In the first one there

September 7th, 2008

The regatta was one of the view painters’ favourite subjects as it allowed them to paint a celebrating Venice and it is still one of the main events. Every year on the first sunday of september sumptuous historic procession of boats precedes competitions among boats of the same kind (the gondolini race, etc.).

Indeed, on this occasion the San Marco Basin and the Grand Canal teem with all sorts of boats from which people can watch the competitions and root noisily. At present the most important and exciting competition is the gondolini race.

In 1999 the first American-style Casino was born in our country. Venice Casino at Ca’ Noghera, which opened after the shutting down of the very famous one at the Lido, contains the best of American games, but it is located inside a building which had been restored for such use but not refined enough. This year the plan for the rearrangement of the whole area will start: it is a rearrangement that will certainly concern the gaming house too.
Within 2009 Tessera is starting works for a stadium with thirty-thousand covered seats and annexed shops, trade areas, restaurants and a brand-new Las Vegas-style casino as well as a hotel with at least 350 rooms. Such buildings will be connected by a bridge and the calls for bids for the assignment of the construction of the two edifices will be shortly assigned – the Mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciari has assured. Thanks to these interventions at last the new gaming house will be able to compete seriously with the one at Nova Gorica. The total maquillage of the area of Tessera envisages works on more than two million square metres of ground.

The Southern Lagoon, namely the ‘water park’ of Venice, is full of secrets that, for not a long time, everybody has been able to visit thanks to the new sailing service ‘ATN Laguna Sud’. This area, contained between the lagoon town and Chioggia, Lido islands, Pellestrina Isle and the Riviera del Brenta, still nowadays represents a coffer of biodiversities and it is furrowed by some not-to-miss itineraries for the lovers of bird-watching but also for those who want to discover Venice in a very original way.
During the voyage you can catch sight of the marks of man on strands and islets which have been inhabited since ancient times. Actually they were used as grounds for hunting and fishing activities, as well as for fish breeding and the military defence of Venice. During the itinerary, then, you can run into the ancient shelters for fishermen: the so-called ‘casoni’, such as the casone Millecampi, with its fishing balance, the casone of Valle Averto and the casone Prime Poste. Very educational particularly is the visit to Valle Zappa. Here man breeds sea bass, sea breams, eels and crabs, that will end up on the stalls of Rialto as well as the other fishing markets of the Veneto. The tour Southern Lagoon just here shows the secret casolare, which is little known even among the inhabitants of the lagoon isles: we are speaking of the refined Hunting Casone of Valle Zappa, built in 1925 with a style reminding us the one of northern Europe residences. It is a very unusual presence but which, despite its showy windows and the refined details, is wonderfully inserted into the landscape. The journey can touch, according to its duration and the type of the chosen route, Chioggia or Pellestrina Isle. A guide explains the natural characteristics of the lagoon and its fishing dales and entertains the guests with short stories and ancient legends about hunting and fishing.

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The Venetian Palace still keeps the signs of its origin as warehouse and then both as residence of noblemen and of merchants. Each palace has got two entrances, one on the water from which the goods get in, called bank, and the other one, on the land, usually led into a courtyard with its own well in the centre, for water supply. Besides, it is bizarre the fact that a town surrounded by water had several problems related to drinkable water. Such problems were solved by means of specific wells which had to collect rain water and filter it. On the ground floor, next to the entrance hall (andron) there is often the mezzanine floor: its sides were divided into two halves along their height, and they were used as business offices by the merchant. The side rooms of the entrance hall, on the first floor or piano nobile, were used as the residence of the owner. In the end, the attic was usually inhabited by his servants and merchantmen.

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Every year two million tourists stay at the hotels in Mestre-Venezia. If we make a quick calculation, then, nearly four tourists out of ten who decide to have a holiday in Venice sleep on the dry land. And the increase in such presences is constant: 20% more every year. Of course, it is a consequent tourism, that is relative to people who want to visit the wonderful lagoon town and do not want to spend too much. Moreover, at the end of the day, satisfied with Venice’s beauties, after coming back to their hotels, they are often interested in going round Mestre to look at the numerous shop windows and take the opportunity to do shopping in the fashion, and even to get lost inside the Shopping Centre Le Barche, beside along the town roads. And then, what about sitting down and drinking an aperitif in one of the various modern or retro fashion places in Ferretto Square and neighbouring areas?

Mestre offers also a historical and artistic itinerary which should be exploited in a better way by the local government. It includes a Medieval Tower which was built nearly eight centuries ago and it is the only

Higher and higher and ready to run on the large international hubs when also the enlargement of this air terminal and the third runway will become real. SAVE, the company managing the Venetian Marco Polo Airport, on 27th December rewarded the seven millionth passenger in transit on the lagoon terminal in 2007: Jeanne Belhumeur, a French speaking Canadian woman from Montreal who has been living in Italy for five years and who was going leave and call at Paris in order, then, to fly to Canada. During the period January – November the traffic of passengers in Venice increased of 12% compared to the same period of the previous year, against a national average grow of 10,2% and a European one that in the period January – June was equal to 5,7%.
The whole year was characterized by the introduction of new connections and the increase in attendances for already

The City Notebook about Venice has come out, with its stone and water routes with young people from all over the world. It is the new Moleskine City Notebook about Venice, following the ones about New York, Boston, Paris, London, Barcelona, Berlin, etc… The Italian producing house of the most famous small notebook in the world, which was also used by Hemingway, Chatwin, Picasso, has enriched its new collection with new city notebook models which, besides its mere white pages to write one’s own travel notes, are endowed with useful information and the map of the Venetian city too.
Moleskine directly takes part in the cultural and economical life of the city, by supporting a project in favour of young artists from all over the world, in collaboration with the Venetian town council and organized by the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa: in the building of Saints Cosma and Damiano at Giudecca eight artistic projects  have been assigned to young artists selected by the Foundation.
The official mark of Venice (created under the artistic management of Philippe Starck) testifies Moleskine’s commitment towards financing such project, by investing a part of the proceeds of the Venice City Notebooks sold.