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     Contemporary architecture in Venice: the Biennale Pavilions
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian architecture
    Posted December 27, 2022

    Contemporary architecture in Venice: the Biennale Pavilions

    Contemporary architecture in Venice is not a chimera Contemporary architecture in Venice can be found pretty much everywhere, even in St. Mark’s square —see the Olivetti Showroom (link to my post [...]

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     Holy relics in Venice: from St. Mark to Antonio Canova
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art, Venetian history
    Posted November 28, 2022

    Holy relics in Venice: from St. Mark to Antonio Canova

    Holy relics and disbelief Holy relics create curiosity and even when disbelief prevails, wouldn’t you still feel like checking as St. Thomas did? At the Accademia Galleries in Venice you can [...]

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     Early Renaissance Architecture in Venice: how Venice changed its cityscape
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian architecture
    Posted October 30, 2022

    Early Renaissance Architecture in Venice: how Venice changed its cityscape

    Renaissance architecture is something travelers coming to Italy connect to Florence. It is of course quite simplistic to search for an exact place where it all started, not to mention when. [...]

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     Raft driving from the Dolomites to Venice through forests, rivers and a lagoon
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian history
    Posted September 25, 2022

    Raft driving from the Dolomites to Venice through forests, rivers and a lagoon

    The Dolomites mountain chain is part of the Alps and can be viewed from Venice on clear days. Those blue peaks are a couple of hours drive far from Venice and it is there where timber rafts [...]

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     Drinking water in Venice: Venetian wells, fountains and bottled water
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian history
    Posted July 27, 2022

    Drinking water in Venice: Venetian wells, fountains and bottled water

    Drinking water was not available in Venice in the early times. As Marin Sanudo explained in his chronicles of the 16th century, Venice is quite a paradox: “Veniexia è in aqua et non ha aqua”, [...]

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     Vela Al Terzo: the traditional sail in the Venetian lagoon and in the Adriatic Sea
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian lagoon, Venetian traditions
    Posted June 28, 2022

    Vela Al Terzo: the traditional sail in the Venetian lagoon and in the Adriatic Sea

    Vela Al Terzo could be translated with “sail at a third”… at a third of what? Well, let me try to tell you more about this living heritage! If you come to Venice, you may notice some traditional [...]

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     Antonio Canova in Venice from the Correr Museum to the Cenotaph at the Frari Church
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art
    Posted May 31, 2022

    Antonio Canova in Venice from the Correr Museum to the Cenotaph at the Frari Church

    Antonio Canova’s Orpheus and Eurydice at the Correr Museum in Venice Antonio Canova started his career as a sculptor thanks to senator Giovanni Falier. In 1775 at the age of 18 his Orpheus [...]

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     Stars and constellations or zodiac signs in Venetian Art
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art
    Posted January 22, 2022

    Stars and constellations or zodiac signs in Venetian Art

    Stars in Venetian history played a major role. They would help navigators find their routes in the Adriatic and Mediterranean Sea. They would direct travellers of the kind of Marco Polo to the [...]

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     Equestrian statues in Venice: horses with or without a man
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian art
    Posted November 28, 2021

    Equestrian statues in Venice: horses with or without a man

    Equestrian statues are not as common as winged lions. And yet they happen to mark pivotal historical events in Venice, although in different and sometimes “embarrassing” ways.  The quadriga of St [...]

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     Venice Lido or Lido di Venezia: how an island was transformed into a city
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    By Luisella Romeo, blogseevenice
    In Venetian history
    Posted September 24, 2021

    Venice Lido or Lido di Venezia: how an island was transformed into a city

    Venice Lido or simply Lido or Lido di Venezia is one of the natural barriers of the Venetian lagoon, protecting it from the Adriatic Sea. Its history shows how a city was born in the early 20th [...]

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      Contemporary architecture in Venice: the Biennale Pavilions
      December 27, 2022
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      Holy relics in Venice: from St. Mark to Antonio Canova
      November 28, 2022
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      Early Renaissance Architecture in Venice: how Venice changed its cityscape
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