http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy Guide to events in Venice and hotels reviews Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:30:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/278/venice-regatta-vogalonga-an-amazing-and-very-folk-feast-you-must-not-miss/ May 4, 2008 (TRANSLATED WITH GOOGLE AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION) 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 ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/276/venezia-traditional-feast-sensa-festivities/ Villa Widmann - Foscari, Mira Friday 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 10.00 to 18.00  (TRANSLATED WITH GOOGLE AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION) At the Great Festival of Wine, 25 and April 26 large Italian wineries will meet at Villa Widmann of Mira (Venice) to show and give a taste of the best quality wine. A ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/271/venice-riviera-del-brenta-at-villa-widmann-of-mira-iii-great-wine-festival/ from 29 August to 6 September 2008 (TRANSLATED WITH GOOGLE AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION) While fans awaiting the Cannes Festival official program, voices are already beginning to move about the Venice exhibition, scheduled in Lido di Venezia from 29 August to 6 September 2008. Could be the 2 beautiful actors, George Clooney and Brad ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/269/venice-shows-film-2008-mostra-del-cinema-will-be-george-cloney-and-brad-pitt-burn-after-reading-to-inaugurate-the-festival/ 18 to 21 April 2008 Campo Santa Margherita (TRANSLATED WITH GOOGLE AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION) Fifty Africans shapes at natural size will be exhibited in Campo Santa Margherita from Monday 18 to Friday 21 April. So it will begin the trip in twenty Italian cities squares of this travelling exhibition "People, Africa, civil society, changing, ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/267/venice-italy-exhibition-and-performance-people-africa-civil-society-changing-in-campo-santa-margherita/ 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, ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/263/venice-italy-the-bochaleri-ceramic-artists-in-campo-san-maurizio/ The ‘‘Belle Ferroniere’’, namely Leonardo’s masterpiece, is going to be the testimonial of the exhibition ‘The Louvre. Masterpieces in Verona. Leonardo, Rffaello, Rembrandt and others. Portraits and images’ which, on 19th September, will open at the Gran Guardia of Verona. The exhibition is the first one of a four-year project ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/261/the-louvre-masterpieces-in-verona-a-four-year-plan-which-will-involve-this-town-starting-from-september-2008/ 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 ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/259/venice-casino-at-ca%e2%80%99-noghera-2009-will-start-the-works-for-a-new-american-style-casino-as-well-as-a-luxury-hotel/ 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 ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/257/southern-lagoon-a-unique-and-not-to-miss-itinerary-for-the-lovers-of-nature/ Palazzo Mocenigo from march 29 to june 1, 2008 Marisa Bronzini (1920 – 2007) undisputed maestro and delicate weaver, is one of the leading exponent of the Contemporary Textile Art. This homage presents more than thirty art works which go over her artistic career during the whole XX century. The exhibition takes place in ... http://www.venezia.net/venice-italy/255/venice-exhibitions-marisa-bronzini-one-of-the-leading-exponent-of-the-contemporary-textile-art/