11th May 2008
Venice Lagoon

The Vogalonga is the well known regatta which since 1974 has taken place in Venice on a Sunday in May. Born in order to protest against the water traffic along the Canal Grande and the necessity to protect the lagoon town from the wave-motion caused by the boats with outboard motors (a phenomenon which brings about the erosion of the foundations of the most beautiful Palaces), nowadays it has lost its protesting character and has become an evocative sports celebration you must not miss. From the morning a thick stretch of multi-coloured boats gather in St. Mark’s Basin. From here the 32 km rowing race starts and it moves as far as the islands of the Northern Lagoon in order, then, to go back to the Canal Grande. Everybody, along the canals, supports and greets the participants who, in the latest years, have been of any nationality. Actually it is an amazing and very folk Feast you must not miss.

May 4, 2008
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In the past centuries the Sensa  feast has played an important role in social and political life of Venice, it has been one of the most important and sumptuous celebrations , which became legend, myth and history of the city. The famous festival, in which the Doge on  the Bucintoro, launched a ring off the waters of San Pietro di Castello, the famous Wedding with the sea, still celebrated by the city authorities: a reconstruction of many boats and of the the Bucintoro boat  will sail  along the San Marco dock, the Mayor of the city then  throws the ring in Laguna to symbolize the marriage with the sea.  Historically the Sensa is the result of an overlap in time of rites  and civil and religious events, today they prefer to give the  meaning of celebration of the Sea and then feast of the city that  draws from its relationship with the sea, reason for living.

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25th April – 1st May 2008
Campo St. Maurizio

The name Bochaleri dates back to 1300, when the workers of Venetian ceramic, a refined production appreciated all over Europe, organized in a corporation known as the Scutelarii first and then in Bochaleri. This ancient art, suppressed by a Napoleon decree in 1806, has survived history and oblivion thanks to the efforts of artisans who through the years have conserved and handed down jealously the secrets of the production of tankards and their fine decorations. This year too, close to the Festa of the Sensa, the ‘I Bochaleri’ association is organizing a true fair in Campo San Maurizio from April 25th to May 1st. Visitors can watch all the phases of production and decoration of the ceramic, and children, in particular, may create little objects in clay under the supervision of the expert ‘bochaleri’.

25th january  - 5th february
Own to the several demands, we are going to publish a brief Programme concerning the events of Carnival 2008, which will take place in Venice from 25th January to 5th February 2008. Unfortunately the definite Programme of the event, as the organizing Agency has told us, cannot be available before the 18th January. Any sestiere of Venice (that is the name of each sector of the lagoon town) is represented by a sense and the whole calendar of events concerns the stimulation of the five senses plus one: the mind.

1.Dorsoduro – Touch
‘Carnival in the dark’ – Dialogue in the dark for the Carnival of Venice 2008.
A special edition of Dialogue in the dark, dedicated to the sensory perception of touch and carnival elements. A feast – a Carnival itinerary completely in the dark, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of the Blind, based on an exhibition that is acquiring a record of visitors all over the world, where groups of people guided by blind persons follow a sensorial itinerary completely in the dark.
From 25th January to 5th February 2008.
Other applications of touch at St. Margherita
2. Santa Croce – Sense of smell
‘Meetings’ – Project Bagliori curated by Pietro Chiarenza.
The national debut of the show ‘Meetings’, revised in the stimulation of the sense of smell: the protagonists will be incenses and their perfumes in a show of 50 minutes made of dancing, fires and circus elements.
From 31st January to 5th February 2008 in Campo San Giacomo all’Orio.
3. Cannaregio –Taste
In collaboration with the restaurant owners of this area, a Carnival itinerary made of food, wine and various performances on gastronomic themes.
From 27th January, Fondamenta Cannaregio – Ponte delle Guglie, Campo SS. Apostoli.
4. Castello – Hearing
Project ‘Venice Gate of the East’.
The rhythms of the East arrive at the Pavilion Italia of the Biennale, with a high quality programme concerning more than 150 among musicians, deejays, actors, for more than 46 hours of performances. A mix of live music, popular

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Venice. Ca’ Rezzonico – Museum of Venetian Eighteenth Century
4th January – 26th May 2008

After the exhibitions dedicated to Tiepolo, Longhi, Canaletto, Fontebasso and Carlevarijs, the remarkable engravings of one of the most important Venetian landscape painters, Michele Marieschi (1710-1743) are arriving from the rich estates of the Printing and Drawing Laboratory of Museum Correr. This exhibition, curated by Filippo Pedrocco, can be visited during the normal itinerary of the museum and presents its masterpiece in such field, that is a collection of the representations of the most famous places in the town engraved in copper and shown for the first time in 1741. Of them the complete series of 22 engravings in their first stage are displayed and collected in the album Cicogna which was given as a present to the Venetian Civic Museums in 1865 and which has been restored recently by the Restoration Laboratory of the book of the Abbey of Praglia.
Beside such series, some works in their second stage are exhibited; they are different from the others for the presence of the progressive number put at the bottom on the right by the printer Teodoro Viero, namely the owner of the branches? in the eighth decade of the Eighteenth Century. The presence at Ca’ Rezzonico of works of different artists related to Marieschi (from master Gaspare Dizioni to the fellows Fontebasso and Antonio Guardi, namely the author of the portrait of marshal Schulenburg who was the client of them both) let us make comparisons and deepening too.
This exhibition can be visited with the entrance ticket of the Museum.

More information about Carnival 

25th January – 5th February 2008
It will be a ‘Sensation’ one the Carnival 2008 which is going to be celebrated in Venice: to be heard, to be seen, to be touched an to be imagined. The format of the most popular show in Italy was presented on 21st December 2007, at Venice Casino, by Marco Balich, namely the artistic director of Venice Marketing & Events.
A new Venice Carnival, concerning the five senses plus one, that is, as Balich himself has explained, the mind as place of the soul: each sense will be located in a Venetian sestiere, placing the sixth sense in St.Mark. It is a Carnival, then, which keeps the events of its tradition (such as the flight of the Dove and the Feast of the Maries) but which will decisively break off with the past: it will be a repeating format that will aim at creating a lively and consolidated image of Venice Carnival, which can be sold abroad and used to the utmost both by the Venetians and tourists.
The concepts presented by Balich will keep into consideration the dry land and sees Mestre and Marghera as two locations able to catch the attention of a numerous public. In few days the detailed programme of the various events will be at your disposal.
Click here for other news about the Carnival, the flight of the Dove, masks, history, feasts, etc…

With a variegated programme of concerts and shows, a rich calendar of tasting for the public fond of wines and specialties from all over Italy and from abroad too, thirty displaying stands, a renewed scenery and a welcoming service for the public and journalists, which will be full of novelties: the tenth edition of the town event of the local street Market in Campo St. Stefano, arranged by Confartigianato Venezia, will be, as ever, a good occasion to entertain children while, parents are calmly in search of Christmas presents.
SATURDAY 1St December Inauguration
Concert of Gospel Mini Singers. Director Andrea D’Alpaos
SUNDAY 2nd December
Nossa Alma sings Concert of bossa nova
SATURDAY 8th December
Dixieland Jazz Band
SATURDAY 15th December
Space zero
SUNDAY 16th December
The Boys of the Beat
FRIDAY 21st December
Greetings by Mayor Cacciari to citizens and Concert of ‘Mamme per caso’
SATURDAY 22nd December
Fevre da samba

ENTERTAINMENT FOR CHILDREN
This event has always had a deep attention for the activities devoted to children, in order to make Christmas an entertaining period full of useful and educational experiences.

21st November 2006
Salute Church
The Feast of Salute is, with no doubt, the one with the less tourist impact, recalling a real popular religious feeling.
Also such festivity, like that of Redentore, reminds us of another terrible plague occurred during the two-year period 1630-1631, and the succeeding vow made by the Doge in order to get the intercession of the Virgin.
Those who have the opportunity to be in Venice during the day of Salute can breathe an atmosphere of genuine and heartfelt popular participation, as well as not pharisaic religiosity, but deeply related to the history and traditions of the town. Every year, for this feast, a temporary bridge on boats is built: it crosses the Canal Grande and links the areas of St. Moisè and St. Maria del Giglio (sestiere of St. Marco) to the Basilica of Longhena (sestiere of Dorsoduro), in order to allow the passage of the procession. Tens of thousands of people go on a pilgrimage to pay homage to the

28 october 2007
Stra - Venice

 Sport, Solidarity and green. These will be just some of the musts of the 22nd edition of the Venicemarathon – Casinò of Venice Trophy – which will take place next 28th October and that presents several novelties. The first one among all is the OPEN SPORT, a project organized in cooperation with CONI inside San Giuliano’s Park which will give the opportunity to the public of the marathon to know and practice different sport activities.
Course overview Start is located in Stra (a small country town about 25 km west of Venice), at the beginning of “Riviera del Brenta”, the beautiful riverside area where rich and noble Venetians built their vacation mansions in the 18th century. The finish is in the historic centre of Venice, on the embankment named Riva Sette Martiri, in a scenic position facing the lagoon.

1st december  2007

It is a tourist initiative conceived by H-Play, a company that makes play a means for spreading experience, discovery and socializing. As a matter of fact a mysterious group of people is working on an event night and day, will present a new route in Venice: it will be developed as a treasure hunt. The participants will use a special encoded guide-notebook and will be asked to make their mobile phone numbers available in order to receive the instructions to play. Technology in the service of cultural entertainment tourism, then.
The Ruyi is an original and unique event. A challenge with oneself and the others. A new and amusing way for discovering the most hidden side of a town so rich in mysteries as Venice.
What is Ruyi and what happened to Marco Polo’s body?
If you want to know more read the adventures of Carlo Dolfin on venice.theruyi.com.