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๐Ÿคซ As many of #myguests know, Venice is not just the island (which of course remains the main attraction)...

If you get the chance to stay more days we can enjoy fantastic secret places where only the locals go ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Like this one on the #BrentaRiver โค๏ธ๐Ÿ”
#VeniceGuide #BeALocal
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๐Ÿ“œ25 June 1678. Equal rights... we're all living a historical moment where it looks like there are "more rights than duties" around, mostly coming from "above"... but the meaning of conquest itself, i.e. achieving something, seems to have lost its appeal.
On this day of 1678 Venice became (once more) the first city in the world to witness an absolute conquest!
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (shortened Elena Corner), a noble lady from Venice, became the first woman in the world admitted for an academic degree in Theology ("masked" with another name to avoid an international scandal ๐Ÿ˜ณ, women were not allowed at all on the subject) and the first to receive a Doctorate in Philosophy (from the near glorious University of Padua, needless to say one of the oldest in the world). ๐Ÿ‘
Elena struggled in fact all her life for that, against all prejudices... as she was a woman in the exclusive men's academic world.
When you live in a city of conquests and beauty, you can only long for more! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป๐Ÿ”ฅ
#VeniceHistory #25June
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๐Ÿ“ Ernest Hemingway and Venice...
๐Ÿ“ Ernest Hemingway and The Dolomites...

In the anniversary of Hemingway's death (#2July 1961)
๐Ÿ‘‰ Read here the story of this strong liason
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๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€ #MariaCallas and Venice.
A lifelong love story โค๏ธ

She was born 100 years ago (#2December 1923) and she's celebrated at #LaFenice Theater.
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ“œ17 September 1510. Giorgione (his portrait on the leftโ˜๏ธ), one of the most mysterious painters of the Italian #Renaissance, passed away of pest in Venice. This is actually the only certain thing we know about #Giorgione.

He was probably born in 1478 in #Castelfranco, Medieval town 30 minutes away from Venice and at the time part of the Venetian Republic.
He moved to Venice very young and entered the Art School of ๐Ÿ‘‰ Giovanni Bellini as a palace decorator, soon joined by ๐Ÿ‘‰ Tiziano.
That's why Bellini and Tiziano are the main witnesses of Giorgione's work, due to the fact that he never signed his paintings.

Today we all can admire Giorgione's most famous paintings in the #AccademiaGalleries in Venice: among them "La Tempesta"โ˜๏ธ, unanimously regarded as one of the most beautiful and important artworks of the Renaissance!

#VeniceArt #17September
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๐Ÿคบ๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€#24September 1963.
Happy 60th Birthday to #DorinaVaccaroni from #Lido, Venice.

๐Ÿคบ An icon for Italian female foil fencing, she debuted aged 16 in the Olympic Games in Moscow and she won everything possible ๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿฅˆ๐Ÿฅ‰๐Ÿ† in Olympics, World, European and Italian competions in the 1980s.

๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€After retiring from fencing she became a professional cyclist and she managed to do the Tour De France and Giro d'Italia.
Still today Dorina is an Ultra cyclist and she takes part to long runs around the world.
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๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ“œ30 November 1508.
Andrea Palladio, widely considered one of the most influential architects in history, was born in #Padua, at the time under the Republic Of Venice.

The city of #Vicenza, with its 23 buildings designed by #Palladio, and the 24 Palladian Villas of the #Veneto region are listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites.
In particular the influence of #PalladianVillas design and style can be found all over the world in public buildings and constructions, the most famous example is the US Capitol๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Here in Venice we can admire several churches designed and built by #AndreaPalladio, most notably the Church and Refectory of San Giorgio Maggiore island, the Church of Redentore, the Church of Le Zitelle, the faรงade for the Church of San Francesco della Vigna, the faรงade for the Basilica of San Pietro di Castello (see ๐Ÿ“ธโ˜๏ธ).

Have you ever visited some of these amazing buildings?

#VeniceArt #VeniceArchitecture #30November
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