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🎆 A video of what's happening this weekend in Venice... like in every 3rd weekend of July since 1577 😳❤️🔥 #Redentore
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Redentore 2021
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📝"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
- Reprised by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, 1954
- Reprised by #JimMorrison, #Doors, 1965
#Psychedelia
- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790
- Reprised by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, 1954
- Reprised by #JimMorrison, #Doors, 1965
#Psychedelia
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🎥 The list of films in competition for the next #VeniceFilmFestival have been announced today.
Anyone interested in coming? 😃
#VeniceGuide #VeniceEvents
https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2022/venezia-79-competition
Anyone interested in coming? 😃
#VeniceGuide #VeniceEvents
https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2022/venezia-79-competition
La Biennale di Venezia
Venezia 79 Competition
An International competition comprising a maximum of 21 feature-length films presented as world premieres.
28 July 1741. #Vivaldi from Venice.
Read the amazing story of one of the best musicians and composers in human history 👉 here.
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Read the amazing story of one of the best musicians and composers in human history 👉 here.
@Venice_Rocks
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📜12 August 976. Pietro Orseolo is elected as 23rd Doge of Venice. He stayed in charge just 2 years and his only aim was to bring peace to Venice which at the time was witnessing frequent riots: he succeeded by focusing the city on the construction of the Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica.
He also built the first hospice in Venice, right behind St. Mark's Square, with the purpose to host pilgrims who came to Venice to venerate Saint Mark! 🙏🏻
Pietro left his "dogado" spontaneously on a Summer night of 978 to become a monk for the rest of his life: for this reason he is the only Doge of Venice who became a Catholic Saint after his death, venerated as Pietro I Orseolo.
📸 The Bacino Orseolo you see in the pictures☝️, was named after him and today is the most famous Gondola place in Venice, right behind St. Mark!
#VeniceHistory #12August
He also built the first hospice in Venice, right behind St. Mark's Square, with the purpose to host pilgrims who came to Venice to venerate Saint Mark! 🙏🏻
Pietro left his "dogado" spontaneously on a Summer night of 978 to become a monk for the rest of his life: for this reason he is the only Doge of Venice who became a Catholic Saint after his death, venerated as Pietro I Orseolo.
📸 The Bacino Orseolo you see in the pictures☝️, was named after him and today is the most famous Gondola place in Venice, right behind St. Mark!
#VeniceHistory #12August
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🎥 17 August 2011. Venice in Movie Series.
10 years ago Impardonnables (Unforgivable), initially due to come out as "Terminus des Anges", a French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, and Mélanie Thierry, is released.
💬 Plot: Francis, an aging successful writer of crime novels is experiencing the "writer's block". He moves to Venice where he plans to rent out an apartment to live in peace and quiet for the next year while writing a new novel. Through his search he meets Judith, a local real estate agent, who insists on showing him a house accessible only by boat on the island of Sant'Erasmo. Francis falls in love with Judith, a beautiful ex-model, and accepts to rent the property if she moves in with him. A dramatic history involving the two and Anna Maria, Alvise, Jeremie and Alice begins...
Here's the film trailer👇 anyone have seen the movie?
#VeniceMovies #17August
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgBXgzKe2o
10 years ago Impardonnables (Unforgivable), initially due to come out as "Terminus des Anges", a French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, and Mélanie Thierry, is released.
💬 Plot: Francis, an aging successful writer of crime novels is experiencing the "writer's block". He moves to Venice where he plans to rent out an apartment to live in peace and quiet for the next year while writing a new novel. Through his search he meets Judith, a local real estate agent, who insists on showing him a house accessible only by boat on the island of Sant'Erasmo. Francis falls in love with Judith, a beautiful ex-model, and accepts to rent the property if she moves in with him. A dramatic history involving the two and Anna Maria, Alvise, Jeremie and Alice begins...
Here's the film trailer👇 anyone have seen the movie?
#VeniceMovies #17August
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgBXgzKe2o
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Unforgivable / Impardonnables (2011) - Trailer English Subs
Directed by : André Téchiné
Produced by : SBS Films
Genre: Experimental - Runtime: 1 h 51 min
French release: 24/08/2011
Production year: 2010
Francis arrives in Venice seeking peace and quiet to write his next novel. Looking to rent a small apartment…
Produced by : SBS Films
Genre: Experimental - Runtime: 1 h 51 min
French release: 24/08/2011
Production year: 2010
Francis arrives in Venice seeking peace and quiet to write his next novel. Looking to rent a small apartment…
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📜🌍🔭 21 August 1609. The first time man could see publicly through a telescope... it happened in Venice! 🔭💪🏻
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer from Pisa, simply one of the most important figures in human history, considered the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", "the father of modern science", shows the first realization of his revolutionary instrument, the telescope, to the Doge and the Senators on the Bell Tower of #SanMarco, in Venice!
The attendands were all left breathless since they were able to clearly see the distant town of Chioggia from the bell tower.
Returning to #Padua, where he resided at the time, #Galileo further worked in the years on his telescope, bringing it to 20 and even 30 magnification, when the contemporary telescopes of Dutch construction reached just 4 !!! 😳👏
That day of 1609 has been marked by a plaque, still there today on a corner of St.Mark's Campanile 📸☝️
#VeniceHistory #21August
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer from Pisa, simply one of the most important figures in human history, considered the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", "the father of modern science", shows the first realization of his revolutionary instrument, the telescope, to the Doge and the Senators on the Bell Tower of #SanMarco, in Venice!
The attendands were all left breathless since they were able to clearly see the distant town of Chioggia from the bell tower.
Returning to #Padua, where he resided at the time, #Galileo further worked in the years on his telescope, bringing it to 20 and even 30 magnification, when the contemporary telescopes of Dutch construction reached just 4 !!! 😳👏
That day of 1609 has been marked by a plaque, still there today on a corner of St.Mark's Campanile 📸☝️
#VeniceHistory #21August
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📜🏝26 August 1717. The island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni is born in Venice, in front of the Lido.
San Lazzaro was ceded by the Republic of Venice to Mkhitar Sebastatsi, an Armenian Catholic monk, who established a monastery with his followers. It has since been the headquarters of the Mekhitarists and one of the world's centers of Armenian culture, studies and diaspora. Numerous important publications, such as the first complete dictionary of the Armenian language (1749–69) and the first modern history of #Armenia (1781–86), were made in the island by the monks which made it an early major center of Armenian printing.
In San Lazzaro degli Armeni there are about 170,000 volumes, of which 4,500 are manuscripts, Arab, Indian and Egyptian artifacts, the mummy of Nehmeket.
Today the island is still inhabited only by monks, reachable and visitable with a dedicated public waterbus which runs twice a day and needless to say, it's the most in demand attraction for Armenians who visit Venice!
#VeniceHistory #26August
San Lazzaro was ceded by the Republic of Venice to Mkhitar Sebastatsi, an Armenian Catholic monk, who established a monastery with his followers. It has since been the headquarters of the Mekhitarists and one of the world's centers of Armenian culture, studies and diaspora. Numerous important publications, such as the first complete dictionary of the Armenian language (1749–69) and the first modern history of #Armenia (1781–86), were made in the island by the monks which made it an early major center of Armenian printing.
In San Lazzaro degli Armeni there are about 170,000 volumes, of which 4,500 are manuscripts, Arab, Indian and Egyptian artifacts, the mummy of Nehmeket.
Today the island is still inhabited only by monks, reachable and visitable with a dedicated public waterbus which runs twice a day and needless to say, it's the most in demand attraction for Armenians who visit Venice!
#VeniceHistory #26August
27 August 1576. Tiziano, one of the most famous painters of the #Renaissance, passes away of pest in Venice: due to the plague spread all over the city his body can't have a proper burial...
👉 Read all about Tiziano here
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👉 Read all about Tiziano here
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