Look at all Town House Suites

In order to spend an enchanting holiday in Venice you can also  decide to turn your attention to the ancient Venetian houses (house renters, residences and B&B) which have kept their charm intact, or the ones which have undergone a modern restoration nonetheless the traditional atmosphere has remained integral. In our section dedicated to B&B Locations you will have a wide range of them at your disposal. Many are the Venetians who have opened the doors of their houses to all those who love things with a story: to the lovers of walls which have seen and heard so much, and to people who love finding a mark of authenticity even in a modest room. You  can happen to have a stay in a house embellished with the traditional floors ‘alla veneziana’  and the typical sealed glass windows, created by the glass- blowers from Murano, and at the same time you can have all the

From February 2009 the tourists who want to visit Venice will have the opportunity to use the new virtual multilingual assistant (at the  moment in five languages such as Italian, English, French, German and Spanish) of the web site www.veniceconnected.it   or  www.veniceconnected.com, which will guide them in the booking and purchasing of services. For the moment it regards exclusively public services such as parking, transports, civic museums, etc.
The site will be used, thus, as an ‘on line joiner’, by replacing the old system of purchasing separated from the single services with just one operation. Once made the payment, tourists will be provided with a voucher number, which will give them a direct access to prepaid services, without further queuing, as well as a bi-dimensional bar code, letting them to check the situation of their ticketing

From September 2008 I Love Tourism Shop, namely a clear expression of the very wide and creative meaning that the term ‘shop’ can have, has been carrying on the new project 4WINDOWS, supported by the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, which has been always interested in launching young famous and unknown Venetian artists and which, thanks to the work of the two brilliant curators of the shop, Gianmaria Borin and Zeljko Marinkovic, has turned its attention to young designers too. Each of the four windows (from which the name 4WINDOWS derives) at the disposal of the shop of the Foundation, located behind St. Mark’s Square, is dedicated to one designer or a studio for their free intervention and self promotion for a limited period of time. Instead of having the usual shop windows, ILTS has got small galleries of design. The creative national and international young artists can, thus, promote and/or  test  their own products by presenting them to the mixed and international passers by thanks to the central exposed position of the space. By this project the shop clearly wants to underline still

After the great success of New Year LOVE2009, with more than 60.000 people in St. Mark’s Square, challenging the intense cold and an incredible snowfall in order to kiss one another when midnight was striking, now the Venice Marketing & Events is going to arrange the last details of Carnival Sensation 2009.

Beside the traditional Flight of the Angel (there are not unconfirmed reports about the identity of the angel of this year yet, after the incredible descent of Coolio from the Belfry last year), the Feast of the Marie and the Drag Queen Beauty Pageant, there will also be, as you can read on the official calendar that is already on line, Music for all tastes in Campo Santa Margherita, organized by ALL MUSIC, in Campo San Barnaba, with Medieval and Seventeenth century acoustic music and in Campo Bella Vienna, where you will enjoy a rather lounge music atmosphere and video shows, being San Polo the district dedicated to the sense of ‘Sight’. Those who like dancing till late night will have the opportunity to

14th -24th February 2009

Saturday 15th February 2009 – h. 12.00 a.m. St. Mark, The Flight of the Angel. One of the most appreciated events of the Carnival, an ancient tradition that will show a guest-star flying down from the Belfry tower to the ground in St. Mark’s Square.

ALL MUSIC TV Show – from Thursday 19th to Tuesday 24th h. 3.00 p.m., Campo S. Margherita
Opening Party – Saturday 14th February, from h. 11.00 p.m., Stazione Marittima
Music Party – from Thursday 19th to Tuesday 24th from h. 11.00 p.m., Stazione Marittima.
Medieval and Seventeenth century acoustic music sessions from Thursday 19th to Tuesday 24th from h. 9.00 p.m., Campo San Barnaba.
Dorsoduro will hold the music initiatives and sound installations of Sensation 2009. A permanent afternoon show organized by ALL MUSIC is located in Campo Santa Margherita, whereas the Stazione Marittima will be the heart of night-time entertainment and music. Medieval and Seventeenth century acoustic music sessions will take place in Campo San Barnaba.

From Thursday 19th to Tuesday 24th from h. 3.00 p.m., Campo San Polo. From Thursday 19th to Tuesday 24th from h. 9.00 p.m., Campo Bella Vienna.
San Polo, the sense of ‘Sight’ for children and young people. Campo San Polo and Campo Bella Vienna will be the focus points of the district. The first one will still be the Carnival place par excellence dedicated to

27th September 2008 – 22nd March 2009

Since 27th September Palazzo Grassi has been holding, among polemics and notices, ‘Italics. Italian art between tradition and revolution’, namely forty years of Italian art according to Francesco Bonami. By means of 180 works of art of 106 selected artists, the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, wants to start again from where the Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum of New York in 1995 had arrived, namely ‘Metamorphosis’, devoted to the Italian creative miracle from 1943 to 1968. The exhibition, then, presents 106 artists along an itinerary in which you can find from Picasso to Annigoni, from the Transavanguardia to Arte Povera. Fundamentally Bonami tries, very stylishly, to launch a range of young artists, ‘by certifying them’ with the presence of their masters by their sides. ‘Italics’ wants to be an open journey, an opportunity not only to find an answer, but rather to raise more and more questions and doubts. Not a scenery aiming at establishing a clear distinction between the ones who are included and the ones who are left out then, but rather a survey of the reasons why Italy has always been, for a long period, a reality