🤺🚴‍♀#24September 1963.
Happy 60th Birthday to #DorinaVaccaroni from #Lido, Venice.

🤺 An icon for Italian female foil fencing, she debuted aged 16 in the Olympic Games in Moscow and she won everything possible 🥇🥈🥉🏆 in Olympics, World, European and Italian competions in the 1980s.

🚴‍♀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.

👨‍🎨📜30 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 Capitol🇺🇸

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 façade for the Church of San Francesco della Vigna, the façade for the Basilica of San Pietro di Castello (see 📸☝️).

Have you ever visited some of these amazing buildings?

#VeniceArt #VeniceArchitecture #30November

👨‍🏫📜11 December 1712.
Francesco Algarotti was born in Venice.
He was a writer, essayist, art collector, polymath, philosopher, poet. Enlightenment spirit, Anglophile, erudite with knowledge ranging from Newtonianism to architecture and music, he was a friend of the greatest personalities of the time such as Voltaire, Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV, Heinrich von Brühl, Frederick II of Prussia.

One of the biggest merits of #Algarotti was to make things simple: an example is his essay "Newtonianism for Ladies"☝️which was intended for the everyday people (and therefore despised by the erudite elitist of the time).

Today the most important Academy school for Tourism and Incoming in Venice is named after him, Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore Francesco Algarotti (see picture 📸☝️): #myguests always learn about it during my fantastic #WalkingTour in Venice 🤟
#FrancescoAlgarotti passed away in #Pisa, on 3 May 1764.

#VeniceHistory #11December