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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.
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The sestiere of Cannaregio
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.
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The Neverending Story at Palazzo albrizzi
The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) the German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979, is one of the most popular books of the late twentieth century: an exhibition to learn more about the author,his fortune in Italy, the translation of the fantastic in Rome, his relationship with the Italian artists and German-Romania, his friendship with Angelo Branduardi and his fundamental relationship with hisfather, the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.
Info:
Tel. 041 523 25 44
acitve@shineline.it
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Venice International Boat Show 2010 The 9° International Boat Show of Venice will be placed from the 18th to the 21st March 2010, at the Cruise Terminal.
The 9° International Boat Show of Venice will be placed from the 18th to the 21st March 2010, at the Cruise Terminal. Aside the most prestigious yachts, the event will present important partnerships and news such as the offer of Charters for the incoming summer season.
The International Boat Show represents moreover the occasion of testing boats on the Venetian Lagoon.
INFO: Expo Venice S.p.A.
Stazione Marittima Fabbricato 103
30135 Venezia Italy
Tel. +39 041.533.48.50
Fax. +39 041.533.47.60
info@expovenice.it
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30/03/2010 WOODY ALLEN AND HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND
WOODY ALLEN AND HIS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND.
First show in the Italian tour of Woody Allen playing his clarinet with his jazz band, featuring Eddy Davis, banjo, Conal Fowkes, piano, Simon Wettenhall, trumpet, Jerry Zigmont, trombone, John Gill, drums, and Greg Cohen, bass
INFO: tel. 041.27.19.190.
Information and tickets at Hellovenezia offices around town (Fenice Theater, Piazzale Roma, Railway Station, Lido S. M. Elisabetta). Call center 041.24.24. www.hellovenezia.com
Web site: www.teatrolafenice.it
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from 26/02/2010 FROM MEDARDO ROSSO TO VIANI, FROM RODIN TO ARTURO MARTINI Through 18/07/2010 The Forms of Modern Art 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.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.Info tel. 041.270.03.51 e-mailweb site info@fmcvenezia.itwww.museiciviciveneziani.it
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SAN LAZZARO MUSEUM (Museum)
Isola di S.Lazzaro degli Armeni, 30100 Venezia
Venezia - centro storico
Tel: (+39) 041/5260104 -
web: www.mekhitar.org
Visiting time15.00-17.00.
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.
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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.
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Cà d'Oro to vist 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.
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from 14 May 2010 to 16 May 2010 MAREMAGGIO
time: 10.00 - 19.00
place: Venezia at: Arsenale
Mare Maggio is a path that begins from the Past and looks to the Future, in one of the most fascinating places of Venice: The Ancient Arsenal. Here there will be exhibitions, historical representations, boats, yachts, events, books and objects for people who loves the sea.
Info:
Tel. +39 (0)41 5334850 Fax: +39 (0)41 5334760
info@expovenice.it
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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’ GiustinianThirty 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
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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.
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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.
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May 15 and 16 FESTA DELLA SENSA
The enchantment of the city's marriage to the sea is back
Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th May 2010
Every year Venice attracts millions of visitors to events that are famous the world over. The Festa della Sensa, is one of the city's best known festivals that bring to life its thousand year history and its close ties to the sea and the art of "Voga alla Veneta" rowing. The spectators that flock to this event enjoy a unique, unclichéd experience of the city, as they are able to mingle with Venetians, who are always the real stars of this occasion. The Sensa celebration is an international events with a people's festival spirit, because it is the expression of a city that succeeds in resurrecting authentic elements of its past, while maintaining its original sense of fun, religion, and most of all, history.
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GARDEL'S TANGA: A STORY IN COMIC STRIPS - Josè Munoz and Carlos Sampayo
from 13 February 2010 to 11 April 2010
Gardel's Tango original tables by José Munoz and Carlos Sampayo
Cà Pesaro
Tel 0039-041-721127 - www.museiciviciveneziani.it
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RETROMANIA PALAZZO MOCENIGO
About 50 clothes, pieces of fornitureand various items from 1830 to the present day. All of them belong to Adiana Nanu's private collection
Palazzo Mocenigo
from february 6, 2010 to march 7, 2010
Tel 041-721798 www.museiciviciveneziani.it
from february 6, 2010 to march 7, 2010
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Jim Hodges Love, eccetera
5 Février > 5 Avril 2010info www.bevilacqualamasa.it
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23 Mai 2010
http://www.vogalonga.com/eng/index_ing.asp
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"Su e Zo per i Ponti"
Du 18 Avril 2010 au 18 Avril 2010
"Su e Zo per i Ponti"
Se déroulera encore cette année à Venise, la marche sans compétition "Su e Zo per i Ponti", atteint déjà sa 32e édition.
Tout le monde peut y participer : jeunes et moins jeunes, elle offre aux participants l'opportunité de passer une journée sous le signe du sport, de l'amitié et de la solidarité.
Trois parcours différents sont disponibles, prévus pour satisfaire les exigences de tous les coureurs plus ou moins experts.
L'endroit est splendide, Venise sert de cadre à la course au travers d'un circuit serpentant dans toute la ville. Pour les écoles maternelles et élémentaires, le départ est prévu Place Saint-Marc ou de la gare Santa Lucia. Cependant, la Place Saint-Marc est le lieu d'arrivée pour tous.
Après la course un grand nombre de prix seront décernés : tous les participants recevront une médaille souvenir et les groupes composés d'un minimum de 20 personnes, une plaque commémorative de l'événement ou également d'autres prix pour groupes. De plus, la tradition veut que tout éventuel gain provenant de la manifestation soit dédié aux œuvres de bienfaisance.
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes à tous dans les points de vente participant à l'opération. Il est possible de s'inscrire également le jour de la manifestation, en fonction des places disponibles.
Informations sur les modalités d'inscription
T.G.S. Eurogroup
Via Marconi 22
31021 Mogliano Veneto (TV)
Tél./fax 041.5904717 - fax 041.5903042
e-mail : suezo@tgseurogroup.it
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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.
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800 RARELY-SHOWN 19TH-CENTURY VENETIAN DRAWINGS.
THROUGH 11/04/2010
At Correr Museum
An exhibition that is part of a program for promoting the art treasures of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation presenting in the museum main hall and exhibition areas on the second floor a group of 19th-century drawings, most of them never shown before.Among the works, all of them focusing or inspired by Venice and its monumental and social aspects, are drawings by Giacomo Guardi, son of the great 18th-century vedutista (city-scape painter), engraver and illustrator Giovanni Pividor, the famous vedutista Ippolito Caffi, Flemish artist François Vervloet, street portraitist Giacomo Bosa, and by Luigi Quarena who specialized in singular genre in a short but successful career: panoramas, particular perspective views of cities, landscapes and historical events.
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http://www.teatrofondamentanuove.it/
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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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www.museoebraico.it
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THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN VENICE
Visits only by reservation
Ticket 5,00 Euro
info at Palazzo Zenobio
0039-041-5228770
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http://www.chorusvenezia.org/
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THEATRE LA FENICE
http://www.teatrolafenice.it/index.php
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August 29, 2009 till January 10, 2010 Visit Torcello's island
Dicesan Museum a Millennium Exbition
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www.bru-zane.com
Une nouvelle musique à Venise
Petit Palais BRU ZANE
Centre de Musique Romantique française
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Palais des Doges
Daily guided Tour, booking required:
information and booking at 041-2715911
www.museiciviciveneziani.it
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Basilica San Marco
FREE guided tour with Biblical reading of the mosaics:
daily by appointment (exept Sunday and holidays) in Italian, French, English, German and spanish.
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Opening Juin 6
http://www.palazzograssi.it/
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Cà Foscari Tour
Vous pouvez visiter l'Université de Cà Foscari
www.unive.it/ visita
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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.
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The hiddenVenice 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).
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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
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Ile de 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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