From 31st August to 10th September 2011
Lido di Venezia

For the first time in history, all the films presented in the official sections of the Venice Film Festival this year will be first releases. Now that the programme of the 68th edition of the famous Venetian Festival has been released, it seems a very interesting event indeed.

The programme includes 5208 films (2511 full-length, 566 middle-length and 2131 short-length films). There will be 22 films in the In competition section, 19 in

Welcome back to our Gourmet Heading!

This week our meal is a fusion venetian-catalan one. Boiled fish is a classic of our venetian cuisine. Appreciated and light, it’s the king of the starters especially if the fish is fresh and well cooked, because as we know it doesn’t need to be long cooked.

So once you boiled shrimp, prawn and slipper lobster, “canocia” in Venice, you’ll finely chop carrots, onions, sellery and peppers. Then dress them with vinaigrette or

INCROCI DI CIVILTÀ (CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION )– COMPLETE PROGRAM
13 to 16 April 2011
Varous Location in Venice

The next “Crossroads of Civilization“, the International Literary Festival that annually brings many writers from around the world to Venice for four days of immersive discussion, will be held from the 13th until the 16th of April 2011. It will take place at some of the city’s most prestigious locations, from the Auditorium Santa Margherita and Teatro Malibran to Querini Stampalia Foundation, Cinema Giorgione, Ateneo

Welcome back to our Venetian Cuisine Heading

As Easter is fast approaching we decided to propose you some receipes of that period.

The main area for asparagus is Bassano del Grappa but they’re cultivated everywhere in Veneto.

Here we are with another receipe, always trying to bring you into our memories, to make you better understand the Venetian culture and origins.

This is another dearest meals to our Venetian Cuisine. The receipe we’re offering you can also be prepared in different variations; with rice, without meat, with bacon and more.

We’ll eat our soup, definitely with a winter taste, seated by an old plank (tavolaccia) of an “Osteria” (tavern) or by Granny’s kitchen in front of the

The Venetian University has been offering the public an extraordinary opportunity for visiting the Palace located on the Grand Canal, which is still the historical siege of the Venetian Institution. The guided tours of Ca’ Foscari are held from Monday to Friday and represent a unique opportunity to admire the ancient splendor of this jewel of the Venetian Gothic architecture throughout its history from its origins to the naissance of the School of Commerce until its latest restoration.

This event takes place from the magical courtyard to the famous Aula Baratto, enhanced by the interventions of the architectural genius of Carlo Scarpa. Wrapped in

From Saturday 26th February to Mardi Gras 8th March 2011

Such an important event as the anniversary of the 150 years of the Unification of Italy with the coincidence of Shrove Tuesday and the International Women’s Day have inspired Venezia Marketing&Eventi the theme chosen for Venice Carnival 2011, which will be entitled ‘Nineteenth Century’ from Senso to Sissi, the town of women. In particular, the references in the title derive from the 1954 cinematic masterpiece of Luchino Visconti and Princess

1st May – 25th July 2010
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Since 1st May 2010 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice has been exhibiting ‘Utopia Matters. From the Brotherhoods to the Bauhaus’’. On display there are more than works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, design items, photos and printed matter which aim at examining the evolution of utopian ideas in modern Western thought and practice, by

from 13th September to 24th October 2009

The 15th edition of ‘The places of Baldassare’’ Galuppi and Music Festival started on 13th September 2009. It is a Music Festival which offers us the opportunity to listen to sublime classical music concerts, of the Eighteenth century repertoire but not only that, in very particular places in Venice and its estuary. Among the new locations to be visited there is the Sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Apparizione on the island of Pellestrina, the Hotel Ausonia and Hungaria, which will offer the ideal

Collateral event 53rd International Art Exhibition
4th June – 15th August 2009 Sant’Apollonia Cloister

A vergin, her teeth, two great artists. This is the strange mix proposed by ‘Saint Apollonia, Omar Galliani and some teeth by Andy Warhol’, that is a collateral exhibition of Biennale held at Saint Apollonia Cloister, where the Diocese Museum of Venice is located. The story with macabre features of the martyr Saint