📝 "When I seek another word for 'Music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'..."

Friedrich Nietzsche

📜 #Venezia1600. In 2021 Venice celebrated its 1600 foundation anniversary 🍾🥂

When we go back to Medieval times or before, it's always hard to tell precise dates, due to lack of written infos and changes in the calendar during history.
In #Italy we have always had an "advantage" as concerns dates in history: the Church!
For centuries the few people who could really write and report in the used official language (Latin) were those involved in the various churches spread all over the country, that's why our history is so detailed.
Having said that, it seems (and some historians are pretty sure about) that on March 421 AD (on day 21 or 25) the first stone of the first church was layed in "Rivus Altus"...

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📸 Venice island is divided into 6 districts called Sestieri.
Click on the links below👇for related photos, videos and an essential guide to the districts 😃

👉 Santa Croce

👉 Dorsoduro + Giudecca

👉 San Polo

👉 Cannaregio

👉 Castello

👉 San Marco

#VeniceGuide
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🎆 For you a list of the main events, celebrations and traditions you can live and enjoy every year in Venice.
Click on the links below👇for related descriptions.

👉 Carnevale (February - March)

👉 San Marco and Bocolo (25 April)

👉 Art / Architecture Biennale (April - November)

👉 Sensa (May)

👉 Vogalonga (May/June)

👉 Redentore (July)

👉 Film Festival (August - September)

👉 Regata Storica (September)

👉 Venice Marathon (October)

👉 San Martino (11 November)

👉 La Salute (21 November)

👉 Santa Lucia (13 December)

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The world has changed a lot for everyone of us in these last years and we all got used to words like virus, pandemic, social distancing, lockdown, #quarantine...
Yes, Quarantine: do you know that this word is Venetian? Venice was the first city in the world to invent and implement "Quarantena" (which stands for "40 days").
This dates back in Medieval times...

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I post a video of my Venice Quarantine Tour across the Lagoon, anyone can enjoy with me when here 😊😃

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https://youtu.be/L9387TadaNQ

🎥5 January 2006. Venice in Movie Series.
The Thief Lord, a 2006 British-German family drama and fantasy film directed by Richard Claus and almost entirely filmed in Venice is released.
It is the story of 2 children, Prosper and Boniface, whose parents die and their aunt Esther plans to adopt five-year-old Bo (Jasper Harris) and send 12-year-old Prosper (Aaron Johnson) away to boarding school. But before she can separate the two, Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the magical city about which their mother had often told them stories. In Venice, the boys live on the streets, and Prosper's money quickly runs out...
Here's the trailer👇
#VeniceMovies #5January

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQvMHUU3ko