🌅🏖🍹Having hosted hundreds, I perfectly know the one thing every traveler is desperately in search for when in #Italy: living La Dolce Vita for a while... like locals do.
Can you think of any place in the world where you can visit in the morning St. Mark and #Rialto, and later enjoy your lunch in a green island 🌳 with an amazing view on the Lagoon like #SantElena, and later walk along the seaside on the #Lido beaches... for miles until its end... and later enjoy your Aperitivo at the #Alberoni while waiting for your boat sailing the amazing South Lagoon back to St. Mark, and later enjoy the sunset on your boat along the Grand Canal !!!
Yes, you can actually live La Dolce Vita in Venice... possibly in summertime, possibly with me 😉
#VeniceViews #DolceVita #WalkingTour

📜29 June 965. San Pietro in Volta was born on the island of #Pellestrina, one of the most remote and secluded inhabited places of Venice Lagoon (see map☝️).
One of the main reasons Venice grew and expanded so much in Medieval centuries was to escape the Barbarians frequent invasions.
In 915 the Hungarians, after having devastated the mainland, were defeated by Venetians in Pellestrina island while attempting to assault Venice. 💪
In memory of the victory, about fifty years later (29 June 965) a Church dedicated to St. Peter was built. The whole place was named San Pietro in Volta, where "in volta" stands for "on the run", with reference to the Hungarian armies escaping. It was the main and last attempt by Barbarians to invade and dominate the island.
After that Venice would be safe and free to become the most important city of the Mediterranean area.
For the complete Venice birth history see my first post 👉 here.

#VeniceHistory #29June

📜14 July 1902. Few know and remember this date, even here in Venice, maybe because the tallest building of the city has been masterfully rebuilt in all its splendour! 💪
But on the morning of this day, one of the most famous symbols of Venice since XIII century, the Campanile of #SanMarco ("el paron de casa", the city landlord, as Venetians called it) collapsed!
The poor and irreparable situation of the building was already known for years, that's why a tragedy was avoided by erecting wooden barricades to keep visitors and onlookers at a safe distance. The collapse of the building was also a sort of miracle in its perfection 😇😳. St. Mark's Square and all its masterpieces (Doge's Palace, The Basilica, The Clock Tower, The Procuratie) were in fact almost untouched because the Campanile collapsed on itself (see 📸☝️).
The tower we all know and admire today was rebuilt in 8 years, opened and blessed by Venice Patriarch on 15 June 1910. An elevator to reach the tower top was first installed in 1962.
#VeniceHistory

Hey, they are bulding a new bridge these days in Venice 😳
Do you know why?

👉 Here's the answer 🎆