🏗 "Road Works" in Venice.

🐭... and the official opening in #Rialto with the "Pantegana".
#VeniceCarnival

https://youtu.be/5vBWEpR1S9M?si=krSNse_O4ukTSQsf

🎇 #VeniceCarnival, #MarcoPolo show at the #Arsenale.

https://youtu.be/Y97WJ0Z7Kcs?si=ppOIUv02LOEIKrRD

⚽️🥳 #5February 1964.
Happy Birthday to #CarolinaMorace, born here in Venice 60 years ago.

She is the best football (soccer) player #Italy has ever had and one of the world's best, a true pioneer for the entire female football movement!

She started playing in 1978 when female football was nothing (if not neglected) and never televised.
She has scored more than 100 goals for the Italian National Team, she is the only female to have scored 4 goals in a match in the legendary Wembley Stadium (again, not televised), plus hundreds of goals for the various clubs she played for.

After her career she became a respected football trainer (today she's training a London female team), she is the only woman to have trained a male team (Viterbese in Italian lower series) and she is one of the most in demand football commentators.

If today women football is a televised sport followed by millions around the world, this is thanks to figures like Carolina Morace from Venice 👏🤘

In the comments a rare video on her career👇

🚊🚎✈️ All my guests in #VeniceRocksRoom remember meeting me at #Mestre station, where all trains, buses, airport shuttles arrive.
They're going to rebuild the station completely and the whole are will be renewed.

https://youtu.be/bwgttWkM_-I?si=qhrfWR74xPMLyasm

🗺 Mappa Mundi (completed in 1459).

In this year dedicated to Marco Polo (700th anniversary from his passing away here in Venice), read this amazing BBC article on the story of Fra' Mauro, a 15th century local monk who manually designed the greatest and most accurate World Map of the Middle Age (of course Americas were still missing)...

This astonishing masterpiece was only based on travel accounts and stories he read (mainly from #MarcoPolo and #PietroQuerini) and heard (from contemporary Venetian merchants and explorers), because #FraMauro never left in his lifetime his monastery on San Michele island, Venice ❤️‍🔥

Today you can visit this wonder in the Biblioteca Marciana in #SanMarco Square.
#MappaMundi
#VeniceHistory #VeniceArt

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240214-mappa-mundi-the-greatest-medieval-map-in-the-world

🌏📝 #MarcoPolo from Venice, possibly the first travel writer ever.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240107-the-travels-of-marco-polo-the-true-story-of-a-14th-century-bestseller

😈 Exhibition in Venice... they started at Christmas and don't know for how long... of course it's a mistery!

Info here👇
https://italmostre.it/esoterica-exhibition-venezia/

📜🎼 In this year dedicated to #MarcoPolo here in Venice...
Here's also a Heavy Metal soundtrack🤘

#Symphonity
https://youtu.be/una9m1FH34o?si=taKgbK2fzlAnEpg2

👨‍🎨👩‍🎨 If you love street art and you happen to be in Venice until June 2, don't miss #Banksy exhibition with some of the most popular painted walls... of course not authorized by the artist 😁

M9 Museum is 10 minutes walk from #VeniceRocksRoom, so if you pass by... come and say hallo 🤗🤘

#StreetArt #Mestre #M9Museum

💿 #8March 1979.
45 years ago the first Compact Disc was unveiled in Holland by Philips, after a R&D collaboration with Sony.
This new format was adopted by the music industry in 1982 along with the traditional Vinyl and Cassette and became the standard since 1987.

The first classical music release on #CD was "The Four Seasons" of #Vivaldi from Venice 🎼 🤟