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!

Venice in winter time: events and festivals

Venice and its beautiful churches: life is a fantastic and watery adventure in this town.

One of the greatest place to visit ever, Venice is a multisensorial trip to bring you in an aesthetics feeling that touches all your senses! You can’t come here without visiting the enormous and artistic squares, tasting a bit of fegatini alla veneziana, with a ombra di vino (a little glass of wine) sitting outside the Florian, one of the ancient cafè in Venice!!!

Your perceptions will expand in this magic, esoteric town!! The level of pulchratudine (beauty), to use a Latin word, here in Venice reaches the highest peak!!

The beautiful church of Santa Maria della Salute is one of the great church to visit once in venice. Its origin are connected to a horrible event: the plague of Venice in 1630-31. To stop the hopelessness, the Venetians asked for a divine intervention, promising to build a church in honour of the Virgin Mary. The young architect Baldassare Longhena was appointed with the church once the plague was over and Santa Maria della Salute has been finished in 1682.

The grateful Venetians celebrate since then the occasion on November 21st of each year.

One of the town’s most incredible celebrations, with thousands of e pilgrims across a specially set up pontoon bridge. Everyone holds a candle in their hands and you can also buy it at booths placed in the square outside the church.

These are completely lit inside, and the candles are put also in large trays filled with sand set around inside the church.

The arrival of the Patriarch (bishop) of Venice leading a procession of priests, cardinals and carabinieri to the church  is something amazing to watch and follow.