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  Venice Carnival 2011 events: The flight of the Angel - 27th february 2011
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  Venice Carnival 2011
Venice Carnival 2011. 19th February to 8th March 2011.

Venice Carnival.

NINETEENTH CENTURY, from Senso to Sissi, to City of Women

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  VENICE BIENNALE 53rd International Art Exhibition.Making Worlds. Open through 22 November.
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53rd International Art Exhibition.
Making Worlds.
Open through 22 November.

53rd edition of the number one contemporary art event in Italy.
The sh ... [more]

  'Prendergast in Italy' at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Oct 10 2009 - Jan 3 2010
For the first time in Italy, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection pays tribute to the American artist Maurice Prendergast (St. John’s, Canada, 1858 – New York, USA, 1924) hosting the exhibition “Prendergas ... [more]

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July 19th: Festa del Redentore
Near the Church of the Redentore, this Festival is surely one of the most spectacular Venetian festivals and perhaps the most loved by Venetians. Like the feast of the Madonna della Salute, the Redentore began as feast to give thanks for the end of a terrible plague that was wiping out the Venetian population. But while the Madonna della Salute has remained an exclusively religious festival, the Redentore with its famous night of fireworks on the eve of the feast means it is a feastday with more playful connotations.
The plague of 1576 had killed 50,000 people, among them the great painter Tiziano Vecellio. The Doge Alvise Mocenigo II promised to build a magnificent church if the plague ended.
The following year, the plague stopped, the Serenissima kept its promise and commissioned Andrea Palladio, assisted by Da Ponte, to build a majestic church on the Island of Giudecca.
The Church of Redentore was begun in 1577 and consecrated in 1592, and it is one of the most important examples of Palladian religious architecture. After the foundation stone was laid, a small wooden church was temporarily built, along with temporary bridge of barges from the Zattere, so that the Doge Sebastian Venier (his predecessor Alvise Mocenigo II did not escape the plague) could walk in procession as far as the tabernacle. From that day to the fall of the Venetian republic, the Doge made a pilgrimage to the Church of Redentore every year..

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