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Um zu sehen GIACOMO FAVRETTO am Correr MUSEUM Correr

Von Juli 31 bis 21 November 2010 info am: Indirizzo Museo Correr Piazza San Marco, Venezia call center 848082000 (dall’Italia) +3904142730892 (dall’estero)

If you are in Venice don't miss "OSTERIA LA ZUCCA"

La Zucca isn’t a vegetarian restaurant, but it can satisfy people looking for a place where to eat fresh vegetables courses made with natural ingredients. Opening hours: form monday to saturday lunch: from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm dinner: from 7.00 pm to 10.30 pm Phone: +39 041 52 41 570 Address: Santa Croce 1762, 30135 Venice (Italy)

Cà d'Oro Museum

The Ca’ d'Oro, an ancient patrician residence of the fifteenth-century, gethers the art collection which Baron Giorgio Franchetti, who bought the building in 1894, gave the State.

http://www.arteorientale.org/sito/ita_servizi.html

The Oriental Art Museum is located in the ancient palace owned by the Pesaro family at San Stae, facing the Grand Canal. The building, wanted by Leonardo Pesaro, legal representative for Saint Marc, was designed by Baldassare Longhena.

Historycal Navy Museum

Castello 2148, Arsenale waterbus line 1 Actv, Castello info at tel 0039-041-5200276 www.marina.difesa.it Collection of relics of the Venetian serenissima Republic era and of Italian Navy. Closed holydays and sundays everyday open bwetween 845.13.30 admission 1,55 Euro

Natural History Museum

Museum reopens with 11 exhibition hallsand a new extraordinary display. Sections dedicated to paleontology, explorations and nature. FOndaco dei Turchi Santa Croce, 1730 water bus line 1 Actv stop called Riva di Biasio info at 0039-041-2750206 www.museiciviciveneziani.com

Sebastiano Ricci in Venice

24 April - 11 July 2010 www.cini.it Exhibition Sebastiano Ricci. Il trionfo dell’invenzione nel Settecento veneziano Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Sale del Convitto

VENICE PLANETARIUM

Lido di Venezia, Lungomare d'Annunzio, area ex Luna Park tel 041-731518 - cell.3388749717 Opening times: From October 1st to May 31 open every sunday at 4 pm. Open for schools and groups upon reservation tel 0039-041-731518. INFO at: www.astrovenezia.net

PuntoLaguna

San Marco 2949 Santo stefano info at 0039-041-5293582 www.salve.it Opening: Monday to Friday from 2.30 pm till 17.30 pm morning opening by reservation THE ANIMATED ATLAS SHOWING MORE OF VENICE AND ITS LAGOON.

Felice Carena in Venice

Every day 10 am \ 6pm Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti campo Santo Stefano 2482 water bus Accademia stop informations at 0039-041-5334420 www.felicecarena.it ticket online www.vivaticket.it

CHURCH OF ZITELLE

The church was built between 1581 and 1588. Andrea Palladio is the supposed architect, because of style and typical features present in the church’s structure, but there is no documentation attesting to it. In fact the church, which is part of a greater group of religious buildings, was begun after Palladio’s death. The land on the Giudecca Island was bought in 1561 but building didn’t begin until 1581 and the church was consecrated in 1588. The complex was created by the Jesuit Benedetto Palmi to help girls living in poverty Documentation from1575-1576 does show the purchase of building materials perhaps destined toward the building of the church. The original idea could have been that of a central dome like a memorial temple but which then got changed through lack of finances. Limited space was another problem because the church needed to be built within the walls of the ‘casa delle zitelle’ i.e. the unmarried womens’ home. The home was begun in 1561 by Venetian noble women for young girls who had been used for prostitution. Useful information: Address: Fondamenta delle Zitelle, 32 Giudecca cap 30133 -Venezia Telephone: tel.041.2719012 Boat line Actv: boat stop Zitelle Per further information: Monuments owned by ’IRE are run by Società Servizi Socio Culturali Venice.

Not to be missed in Cannaregio

Church of Santa Maria di Nazareth o dei Carmelitani Scalzi (Barefoot Carmelites) This church was built in 1660 from a design by Baldassarre Longhena. The grandiose façade was created by Giuseppe Sardi. After an Austrian bomb exploded on 27 October 1915, the frescoed vault by Tiepolo collapsed. Today, only a few fragments remain in the Galleries of the Accademia di Belle Arti. In 1934 the ceiling was replaced, and it was adorned with a fresco by Ettore Tito. The first chapel of the right-hand nave has a vault frescoed by G.B.Tiepolo. Square and Church of San Geremia The church houses the relics of Saint Lucy. The relics were previously housed in the church of Santa Lucia which has since been demolished. Palazzo Labia This palace was built at the end of the seventeenth century by the Labias, a family of rich Catalan merchants. The inside is decorated with frescoes by Tiepolo. It is now headquarters of the Italian State Television. Church of San Giobbe (1450-70) This church has a Renaissance portal by Pietro Lombardo. Inside it is decorated with the works of Tuscan artists such as Luca della Robbia. Ghetto The term 'ghetto' derives from the foundries that were found in the area in which the metal was 'gettato' or smelted. In 1509 it became the part of the city that was reserved for the Jews. They built their 'schole' or synagogues here. the first one was the Schola Tedesca (German Synagogue), which was built in 1528. It was followed by the Schola Canton and the Schola Italiana. The Schola Spagnola was rebuilt by Baldassarre Longhena. The German synagogue houses the museum of Jewish art and contains many fine religious exhibits Church of the Madonna dell'Orto Built towards the middle of the fourteenth centuryand first dedicated to Saint Christopher , it was later dedicated to the Virgin Mary after miraculously finding On the left, the Ghetto square with its typical high buildings. Below, an engraving depicting Rioba, one of three brothers arabian merchants called Mastelli a statue of the Virgin in a nearby garden. The church is a beautiful example of Venetian Gothic and hosts wotks by Tintoretto and Cima da Conegliano. Ca' d'Oro It was built by Marino Contarini in 1441, who used the best stonemasons of his time. It is considered the most striking example of Venetian Gothic. It has a façade with polychrome marble moulding and certain elements were overlaid with gold, which was why it was called the ca' d'Oro. The palace at one point became the property of Baron Giorgio Franchetti who donated it to the State in 1916 and is now a museum, with works by Mantegna, paintings of Tuscan school and a beautiful collection of Renaissance bronzes Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli Built around 1482 from a design by Pietro Lombardo. It is a fine example of Reinassance architecture, decorated with polychrome marble and bas-reliefs of sirens and tritons , which are unusual decorations for a church. It still has the small altar-piece painted by Nicolò di Pietro.

The sestiere of Cannargio

Venice has 6 differents areas: San Marco; Castello; San Polo; Santa Croce;Dorsoduro and Cannaregio Our Hotel is located in the one called Cannaregio: The name has two possible origins: it may derive from Canal regio, i.e. the main canal for communicating with the mainland or else it may refer to extensive reed beds found there in the past. The railway station is named after Santa Lucia because it was built in the area of the church of Santa Lucia, destroyed following napoleon's edit in 1806. The building is number 1 of the district.

from 26/02/2010 FROM MEDARDO ROSSO TO VIANI, FROM RODIN TO ARTURO MARTINI Through 18/07/2010 The Forms of Modern Art at CA' PESARO - MODERN ART GALLERY

DescriptionOpening, Friday 5 March.Open to the public Saturday 6 March to 18 July 2010.A new exhibition on display in the Longhena Hall on the ground floor and the second piano nobile, recently re-stored and set to host exhibitions, offering some thirty large-scale sculptures from the museum collection, some of them have rarely been shown to the public.Of great interest are the stimulating groupings and asso-ciations of sculptures and pictorial works – first among them the magnificent frieze by Giulio Aristide Sartorio produced for the Italian Pavilion in the 1907 Art Biennale – in a conceptual comparison and dialogue between ex-pressive idioms and forms.Info tel. 041.270.03.51 e-mailweb site info@fmcvenezia.itwww.museiciviciveneziani.it The show, the first in the 2010 program that is almost en-tirely dedicated by the Venetian museum to sculpture, was curated by S. Fuso, M. Piccolo, G. Romanelli and C. Sant.

San Lazzaro Degli Arneni

SAN LAZZARO MUSEUM (Museum) Isola di S.Lazzaro degli Armeni, 30100 Venezia Venezia - centro storico Tel: (+39) 041/5260104 - web: www.mekhitar.org Visiting time 15.00-17.00. Description In 1717 the Republic of Venice granted the small Armenian community led by the abbot Mechitar permission to settle in the Island where the leper hospital was. There, a convent was established together with a cultural centre still fully active. In the public spaces, several paintings of the Veneto School (Palma il Giovane and Sebastiano Ricci), ceramics and an Egyptian mummy are diplayed. The library, the real heart of the community, treasures several manuscripts in Armenian, and works printed in the near-by printing works. Finally, there are several objects which belonged to poet Lord Byron, who soujourned at length on the Island. How to get there From piazzale Roma and railway station, steamboat no. 1, 41, 51, 82; disembark at S. Zaccaria and take ferry no. 20 to S. Lazzaro degli Armeni (low frequency). On foot, go to Piazza San Marco, proceed along the bank, turn around palazzo Ducale and cross two bridges until getting to embarcadero S. Zaccaria.

Chiesa dei Miracoli

A jewel of the Renaissance by Pietro Lombardo, erected between 1481 and 1489 to contain a precious icon of the Virgin which was held to be miraculous and was already being venerated in 1477. Covered both inside and out with multicoloured marble, which legend has it is material recovered from the building of the Basilica of St. Mark, it has been recently restored to its former glory.

Cà D'Oro to visit near us

It is one of the most famous buildings in Venice, and is, along with the Ducal Palace, the greatest expression of the full flower of Venetian Gothic. The facade was erected by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon, father and son, at the order of the Contarini family between 1424 and 1430, but at the beginning the work was directed by Matteo Raventi and successively completed by the Bons. In 1780 a theatrical accademy named the “Accademia degli Ardenti” with the motto “Flamma nos Ardet” was founded in the “Ca’ D’Oro” by the marquess Francesco Albergati Capacelli, count Alessandro Ercole Pepoli and other gentlemen, who every now and then allowed the inhabitants of Venice, and also educated tourists, to enjoy plays which were sometimes written by themselves and sometimes chosen from some of the best authors of the time. This accademy only lasted for around four years. The Ca’ D’Oro was made into a museum in 1927: the collection, apart from furnishings, hangings, and coins, also includes some reliefs by Titian, Carpaccio, Mantegna, Giorgione, Cima and others.

La Biennale di Venezia 1979-1980. The Teatro del Mondo as a singular building. A tribute to Aldo Rossi

from 10 February 2010 to 31 July 2010 time: 9 am - 7 pm at: Ca’ Giustinian Thirty years after its construction, the exhibition curated by Maurizio Scaparro will re-examine the famous project by Aldo Rossi for the Teatro del Mondo, a floating theatre moored at the Punta della Dogana, built in 1979 for the Theatre and Architecture sections on the occasion of the "Venezia e lo spazio scenico" exhibition. Used in 1980 by the Theatre section for the first edition of the Venice Carnival, the Teatro del Mondo was towed across the sea in the summer of 1980 for the Theatre Festival of Dubrovnik. Info: La Biennale di Venezia tel.041 5218711 Fax 041 2728329

REGATA STORICA 2010 History and sport race together down the Grand Canal Sunday 5th September 2010

The Regata Storica is the main event in the annual "Voga alla Veneta" rowing calendar. This unique sport has been practised in the Venetian lagoon for thousands of years and today it is particularly well-known for the spectacular historical water pageant that precedes the race. Scores of typically 16th century-style boats with gondoliers in period costume carry the Doge, the Doge's wife and all the highest ranking Venetian officials up the Grand Canal in a brightly coloured parade. An unforgettable sight and a true reconstruction of the glorious past of one of most the powerful and influential Maritime Republics in the Mediterranean. The Regata Storica dates back centuries, probably as far back as the mid thirteenth century when the Serenissima needed to train the crews of its huge navy in the art of rowing. Today there are four races divided in terms of age and type of craft. The best known and most exciting of these is the "Campioni su Gondolini" race, where a series of small, sporting gondolas fly down the Grand Canal to the finishing line at the famous "machina", the spectacular floating stage located in front of the Ca' Foscari palace.

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July REDENTORE FESTIVAL

FESTA DEL REDENTORE 2010 A traditional festival that lights up St. Mark's bay Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July 2010 The Festa del Redentore is a festival that is particularly popular with Venetians as it combines a religious theme with a spectacular celebration that attracts thousands of visitors. On Saturday night, the inimitable setting of St. Mark's Basin hosts a phantasmagorical firework display that lights up the spires, domes and bell towers of the city with a kaleidoscope of colours and reflections. At dusk, just as they have done for centuries, numerous small boats decked out with balloons, decorations and brightly coloured lanterns, begin to flock into St. Mark's Bay and the Giudecca Canal. The boats then moor alongside each other and all the participants enjoy a sumptuous dinner of traditional Venetian specialities while they wait for the firework display that begins at 11.30pm and lasts until well past midnight.

ZORAN MUSIC ESTREME FIGURES

THROUGH 07/03/2010 VENETO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE LETTERS AND ART tel 041.533.44.20. (0039 if you are out side Venice) Address: Campo Santo Stefano 2842 - Venezia Description On Mr. Music's 100th birthday anniversary, this exhibition is offered as a tribute to the grand master who was born in Dalmatia, lived most of his life in Venice and was a perfect incarnation of the history of his time. Over eighty works, paintings on canvas and paper, some never shown before, illustrate his artistic production in the last thirty years of the artist's life, when stripped figuration became extreme and centered on the essential. The display progresses along thematic collections of "intensity zones" that give a rhythm to the artist's poetic-existential current, so contemplative and sober. Curated by G. Dal Bon. Catalogue published by Marsilio. Produced and organized by Artemisia Group.

http://www.teatrofondamentanuove.it/



TEATRO SAN GALLO THE HISTORY OF VENICE

SHOW PERFORMED IN ENGLISH - AUDIO GUIDES IN 7 LANGUGES Tickets and info www.venice-tickets.com 0039-041-2412002

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THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN VENICE

Visits only by reservation Ticket 5,00 Euro info at Palazzo Zenobio 0039-041-5228770

http://www.chorusvenezia.org/



LA FENICE THEATRE

http://www.teatrolafenice.it/index.php

www.bru-zane.com

Neue Music in VENEDIG!!!! Palazzetto BRU ZANE Centre de Musique Romantique française

DOGE's PALACE - Secret TRAILS

Daily guided Tour, booking required: information and booking at 041-2715911 www.museiciviciveneziani.it

ST. Mark's Basilica

FREE guided tour with Biblical reading of the mosaics: daily by appointment (exept Sunday and holidays) in Italian, French, English, German and spanish.

Opening Juni 6

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Cà Foscari tour

Es moglich das Universitat Cà Foscari besuchen info www.unive.it/visita

CA’ VENDRAMIN CALERGI Wagnerian RoomsSan Marcuola Boat lines 1-2 to S. Marcuola Guided tours at Richard Wagner’s apartment.Offered by the Richard Wagner Association of Venice on Tuesday and Saturday at 10.30am and Thursday at 2.30pm. Booking required.To book, call the Richard Wager Association of Venice, no later than a day preceding the tour, tel. 338.416.417.4 - fax 041.524.52.75.

The hidden Venice of Sherlock Holmes

"The hidden Venice of Sherlock Holmes.”Tour of the places described in the novel “Sherlock Holmes in Venice.” Sunday 11am, booking required.Additional Information at Trattoria Antica Sacrestia, tel. 041.523.07.49 or 349/15.83.278 (Ivo Lombardo).

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

And Then Peggy arrived...Peggy Guggenheim collection is a museum of modern art to visit: it is dedicated primarily to the collection Of Peggy Guggenheim. For information click here www.guggenheim-venice.it

Torcello

Santa Maria AssuntaThe old lagoon cathedral A romantic photograph takes us back in time. Nature seems to hide, as if to give shelter to, an old monument, perhaps the oldest in Venice’s millenary history. This is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta on the Island of Torcello.It is a genuine jewel, a fundamental example of Venetian art. And the reason we focus on it now is truly unique: the millennium celebration of its construction, which took place in the year 1008. As a tribute to this special anniversary, here are a few notes about the church and the place where it stands, the Island of Torcello. The Church. It is arguably the oldest monument around Venice. A cornerstone set in the wall on the left-hand side of the presbytery dates to 639, which a number of scholars claim is the earliest documented date in Venetian history. Hence, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta may had been built a good two centuries before the St. Mark’s Basilica. Our use of the conditional is required. Another theory argues that the cornerstone actually came from a different church which no longer exists today. Nonetheless, the building is very old, made evident also by the “reading” of the exterior. The terracotta façade with evenly spaced pilasters and divided to three blocks follows the interior division of three naves of the basilica floor plan. The colonnade that leads to it and that since 1300 forms a unified block with the nearby Church of Santa Fosca, rises up to mid height, wholly incorporating in the entrance what has remained of a baptistery. The religious building complex reveals its most ancient origins and, symbolically, the course of life of any of the faithful: The baptistery, symbolizing a new life, is set as a prelude to the cathedral, which proceeds as an expression of life in progress, ending with Santa Fosca, a martyrial chapel (where martyr saints are buried), symbolizing death and subsequent celestial living. The style of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is Venetian-Byzantine. Like the nearby Basilica of San Donato on Murano, it belongs to the period when these Adriatic areas dominated Byzantine architecture. The Byzantine taste and style were influenced then by the Lagoon-area tradition and its austere and unadorned exteriors, but with glittering interiors including polychromatic mosaics and ostentatious decorations.From the time it was first built it has undergone some massive reconstructions, including the main project of the 11th century under Bishop Orso, son of Doge Pietro Orseolo II and grandson of Saint Pietro Orseolo. Work during that period defined the current, typical exarchal architectural form and structure. Datable to that exact period is also the erection of the imposing bell-tower. Torcello and its history. Isolated by deserted shallows, the island rises just ten-minutes away by boat from the Island of Burano, and few miles away in a straight line from the place where the famous Roman city of Altino used to stand at the edge of the Venice Lagoon. The Altino inhabitants were indeed the first to settle on this island, seeking a place to hide from the Barbarian hordes that were the harbingers of the invasions of Italy in the 5th to 7th centuries.The place-name Torcello comes according to legend from the name of one of the gates of the ancient Roman city of Altino, or, according to another, from the Latin word Dorceum, meaning small marshland island (or barena in Italian). Almost certainly, the island had been already inhabited back in the Imperial era, most probably with a population that lived on hunting, fishing and salt gathering, and it is likely that beside the fishermen’s houses there were also several suburban villas. Those early settlements had to deal however with tough climatic and environmental conditions during the fifth and sixth centuries (phenomena of eustatism and subsidence).In 639, following the fall of the city in Lombard hands, most of the Altino residents found shelter on the Lagoon islands. And so, around the marshes life began to get reorganized. Besides Torcello, also other minor islands were inhabited. The new settlers gave their islands names that recalled the gates of their mainland native city: such place-names as Mazzorbo, Burano, Murano, and so on. All islands that over time would stand out for their splendid churches and convents.The Island of Torcello welcomed treasurers and worship materials from Altino, specifically the remains of Sant’Eliodoro, the first Bishop of Altino. This way the Episcopal seat of Torcello could claim in the coming centuries its direct affiliation with that of Altino and, regardless of the translation of the remains approved by Pope Severino in 640, the Bishop of Torcello would keep for centuries the juridical title Episcopus of Altino. Yet during the fifteenth century came the early signs of a crisis that would push the whole Torcello area to a slow inexorable decline, a prolonged agony almost, caused by many concurrent factors. In a matter of few decades the flourishing lagoon islands would be taken over by cane thickets and swamps, the leading families would abandon Torcello and move to Venice, where business was by then booming.Island like Ammiana and Costanziaco, north-east from Torcello, lost their vitality and became for a while hosts of convents, until even those religious congregations left for Venice or other places that were healthier and less isolated.One of the causes of this depopulation phenomenon around the Upper Lagoon was no doubt the landfilling of rivers, and specifically of the Sile, which turned Torcello and surrounding islands into marshland, systematically infested by malaria mosquitoes and snakes. Fever and the unhealthy air, combined with the probable lack of interest in proper urban maintenance – no longer considered necessary, perhaps – led to the population drop in Torcello and other north-eastern islands. Tide water would flood the land, which was left uncultivated, with few rare exceptions in areas around monasteries that were rented out; stones were sold as construction material to build new houses in Venice – as in the case of marble stones from the Church of Sant’Andrea di Ammiana used for the building of St. Mark’s Basilica. The bishops, too, were now staying at their family residences in Venice, up until the time, in the second half of the seventeenth century, when a bishop’s palace was built on Murano to serve as their residence.In 1797 the Venice Republic fell and the Serenissima civic institutions, which for centuries had governed the territory, were abolished, the monasteries and the secular scuole were closed down by order of Napoleon, through laws in 1806 and 1810 that deprived the island even of the little that had remained of their religious vitality. On May 1, 1818, Pope Pius VII abolished the Torcello Episcopate and the territory was annexed to that of the Patriarchate of Venice. In recent times the Pope has reintroduced the honorary title of Bishop, or rather Archbishop, of Torcello. Now during the millennium celebrations, in June, the archbishop took possession of the church and celebrated there a High Mass. Torcello today. Today the island is practically uninhabited, but its isolation, its monuments and its historical finds make it one of the most charming and popular Lagoon islands. Besides its millenary cathedral and the Church of Santa Fosca you should also visit the Estuary Museum (with remarkable archeological finds), the ancient Devil’s Bridge, the legendary Attila’s throne and the austere medieval tower, from atop which you can enjoy one of the most beautiful panoramic views of the Lagoon. Unavoidable, also, is a walk to the famous Locanda Cipriani where Ernest Hemingway, the great American writer who was in love with Venice, often stayed. We note, finally, that on August 15 the island will celebrate Assumption Day in a sober, but surely fascinating, way with a High Mass at the cathedral preceded by a choral concert. Torcello in practice. You can get to the Island of Torcello aboard the ACTV public transportation boats from Venice: boat line LN leaves from Fondamenta Nuove 10 and 40 minutes after the hour, then change at Burano for Torcello. Tickets sell for 6.50 euro (1.10 euro if you are a Venice Card holder). Traveling time is around 40 minutes. For a detailed transportation timetable of service to the main Torcello monuments, please turn to the following pages dedicated to boat service (ACTV) timetables and those containing museum listings. Torcello Study Center. This is an association founded by young scholars with the aim of offering a new popular cultural program that nonetheless would be based on a thoroughly scientific foundation regarding Torcello and the Lagoon. Founded for the 2008 millennium celebrations – officially on June 8 with a visit of msgr. Gianfranco Agostino Gardin, Archbishop of Torcello – it offers visitors a tour of the main sites on the island along with a brief background introduction of lagoon history. You may contact it writing to email address associazione@studitorcellani.it. Sources:Torcello Study Center (Web: www.studitorcellani.it) and “The Churches of Venice” (published by Electa).

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