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Venice and the 5 senses trip to go

Imagine you can do a list for things to do/experience/see/live in Venice. If you only get out of your Italian trip just one day to dedicate to this unique city, before getting to visit the museum, why don’t you wonder around following your 5 senses?

Let’s  start our journey just wandering around following your eyes: you can find Venice’s  charming and empty squares and streets like in the gheto, the Jewish ghetto, which are full of tradition and full of marvellous palace. Of course why don’t go at night inside Piazza san marco to take an heartbreaking view of the town? Around ten everything is shut here and not many people are going around! So take the occasion and follow your sight at night in Venice!

The best time for St. Mark’s Square is early morning too. So when you are still around just switch to a more interesting kind of trip following …your nose! Venice has a plenty of magnificent smelly places: the canals and the famous Rialto market for example are a great idea! In this way you will feel like a Venetian, who gets his food supplies from Rialto, particularly well-known as a fish market, fresh veggies and fruit. Follow the smell of the fried fish, of the fegato alla veneta coming out of the restaurant! and of course take sometimes to nibble around the great venice cousine!

Time to switch again and follow…your ears! The gondoliers are singing for you, so the sweating crowd crying for some rest, and the water? You need to hear the consistent passsage of the water under the bridge and …nothing else! Venice has no noise coming from car: only vaporetto and gondola, which is really nice! Again change again and switch to your hands. Go and touch the marble, the mosaic, the water if you  wish, the gondola again, just close your eyes and feels the walls of the great and ancient buildings..is it satisfing? Hope so and enjoy Venice!

Lost in Venice in May, between daydreams and reality

The Venice wandering around like modern fleuners! What is to see and do in the city? Don’t get overwhelmed!Among beautiful and important event like the Biennale d’arte di Venezia and The Festival del Cinema di venezia, the famous Carnival and 1000 concerts and attractions we can give a couple of useful advice for the tourist that has no time and little money!

Are you visiting Venice? Well, just get lost!  Wandering through the streets and alleys is gorgeous, ending up in this sort of  sentimental and romantic journey through this enchanted town in often-empty squares and streets. or it happens just to follow a street that finishes in a canal! A dead end of striking beauty on the water!  After this going around for “le calli” just ask directions or check the map to go to St. Mark’s Basilica, one of the most famous church in the country and in the world.  onion domes and multi-colored marble pillars, and the interior is floor-to-ceiling mosaics. There are three smaller museums within the basilica which you’ll have to pay an entry to see; your budget and overall interest should dictate whether you visit all of them, but if you’re just going to pick one then by all means take the narrow and steep staircase in the entry alcove up to the museum that has the original horses which used to overlook the square – in addition to seeing the horses, you’ll also get to go out on the roof and overlook the square yourself.

The piazza, Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) is of a gorgeous beauty outside and it is even better night time when nobody is around! oR just walk through on your way to th vaporetto or the train early morning. Venice isn’t a nightlife town, so you will have the chance to see it without the huge mass of people that usually swirled around on the day time. Or take a great view of St. Mark’s Square from the roof of St. Mark’s Basilic: it is easy to do, buying a ticket for the short elevator ride to the top of the Campanile.

A lovely trip to do is the Grand Canal Tour in vaporetto, the Venice’s water-buses! and then Just go further and watch a Glass-Blowing Demonstration in Murano Island! Just walk around the streets of this island pretty close to Venice, pop over in an open studio and enjoy!

Another “must-do” tour  is the one that involves The Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s Palace): yes, it has an hefty admission fee but it includes the walk over the Ponte dei sospiri (Bridge of Sighs).

Finally, go and buy food at The Rialto market, well-known as a fish market, with a plenty of fresh veggies and fruit for sale as well.

 

“ILLUMInations” in Venice: the 54th Biennale di Venezia starting from June

Are you planning a wonderful trip to Venice? Why don’t you go in June? It is not so hot, but confortably warm and a range of events starts in this astonishing town!!!
For example, the 54th International Art Exhibition of Biennale di Venezia!
In 2011 the Biennale in Venice presents itself to the national and international audience with the title of ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations.
Directed by Bice Curiger and chaired by Paolo Baratta, the exhibitions will be open to the public from Saturday June 4th to November 27th 2011 as usual in the fantastic scenario of the Giardini and the Arsenale.
The opening and the award ceremony is on June 4th.
The exhibition ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations will be set  in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and in the Arsenale: a single itinerary who features 82 artists from all over the world!
This year, the Biennale includes 32 young artists born after 1975, as well as 32 women artists.
As usual, 89 National Participations will  parallel the Exhibition: a real record for the Art Biennale this year.
The countries that will be participating for the first time will be Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Haiti. Other countries will be participating after a long period of absence: India (1982), Congo (1968), Iraq (1990), Zimbabwe (1990), South Africa (1995), Costa Rica (1993, afterwards with IILA), Cuba (1995, afterwards with IILA).
37 Collateral Events will be arranged by international organizations and institutions. A full range of extraordinary art shows and avanguarde events to make even more interesting and exciting your holiday in Venice.
Why the title “ILLUMInations”?
According to the curator Bice Curiger, “as the biggest and oldest Biennale, la Biennale di Venezia has always been buoyed by an international spirit, and even more so now in an age in which artists themselves have become multifaceted, discerning migrants and cultural tourists”.