Celebrating New Year’s Eve in Venice is, without doubt, one of the most romantic ways to spend the last day of the year.

This year – like in the last few years – there will be a great Love Celebration in St Mark’s Square.

The arrival of the new year will be celebrated by a lovely, choral group kiss followed by a toast and fireworks, which will light up the Venice Lagoon and create a spectacular pattern of colours reflected in the water.

From 24th November 2011 to 26th February 2012
Gallerie dell’Accademia

The “Homage to Lorenzo Lotto” Exhibition in Venice will be open until 26th February 2012. The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) has lent the Accademia museum gallery in Venice two paintings that have rarely – if ever – been seen in Italy, “Husband and Wife” and “Madonna delle Grazie”.

From 27th November 2011
Ca’ Giustinian
Free entry

With the Finissage of the 54th International Art Exhibition, the VIDEO MEDIUM INTERMEDIUM, an exhibition of artist videos from the ASAC (Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts) collections, opened in Palazzo Giustinian, which confirms yet again that this is the venue of the permanent activities of the Venice Biennale.

23rd October 2011

One of the most important sports events in Italy, with a spectacular race track, is the Venice Marathon. Runners will start in Villa Pisani a Strà and reach Riva dei Sette Martiri in Venice. This year the race (held on 23rd October 2011) includes St. Mark’s Square. More than 7000 registered athletes will have the honour of running in front of the Correr Museum and St. Mark’s Basilica.

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Until January 6th 2012
Palazzo Mocenigo

On the occasion of the exhibition “ELEGANCE IN EXILE. Between fashion and costume, Diaghilev’s time”, more than two hundred costumes of the “Ballets Russes” will be exhibited in the evocative rooms on the main floor of the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo, the Centre for the Study of the History of Textiles and Costume, in Venice.

The Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo has been dealing for years with fashion and “piecework”, perfect to represent men “in their time”. The history of fashion adds meaning to the human,

Palazzo Grimani
Until November 27th 2011

The exhibition Fausto Pirandello – The Nudes, a special initiative sponsored by the Italy Pavilion at 54, continues with great success. International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, currently held at the Palazzo Grimani in Venice until November 27th 2011.

A theme of great fascination, cultivated by Fausto Pirandello throughout his production, is the female body nude. The exhibition describes, with more than twenty

Until January 6th 2012

Murano Glass Museum

On the occasion of the 100th year of activity of one of the most famous and long-lived glassworks in Murano, Ercole Moretti e F.lli, the exhibition “ERCOLE MORETTI. A century of Venetian beads” will be opened on October 8th 2011, at the Glass Museum in Venice: an extraordinary opportunity to admire from close to hundreds of beads and glass artefacts made ​​using the lampblown glass technique.

St. Mark’s Square Gallery and Palazzetto Tito

The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa opens the autumn exhibition season with a new governing board, nominated by the Mayor of Venice on 21st July 2011 and comprising of: Angela Vettese, the Chair whose

Until  January 22nd, 2012
Doge’s Palace, St.Mark Square

The Exhibiton“Venice and Egypt” will be opened in the spectacular Sala dello Scrutinio of the Doge’s Palace in St.Mark Square, the heart and symbol of the Serenissima, until January 22nd, 2012. For the first time ever,