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A brochure describing both the historical, ancient, and contemporary locations which today host, within the Veneto region, the offices of the Mibact (Ministry of Culture): different types of offices including 7 national archives

The most famous bread in the world? The French baguette, for sure, although in Venice the typical “rosetta” is the most famous handmade bread. It’s the symbol of peace, of hunger and richness.

We eat and love them because they recall mysterious lands that are far away, but we also use them as medicine and perfumes. When Venice was known as the Serenissima, the trade of spices was an essential source of its income

Helping us to reflect on the relevance of learning languages in order to increase our personal growth and on the value of linguistic and cultural diversity, as a part of an intangible heritage to love, respect and protect.

Sixteen hundred years of craftsmanship of excellence, of arts and culture. Sixteen hundred years of tailor’s hands, goldsmith, impiraresse (typical venetian word used to describe the work of women that used to sew jewels)

A new project signed by Venice1600, dedicated especially to the youngest and aimed at illustrating the history of the Serenissima, with an outlook on the future. Every Thursday on the Official Instagram account of Venice1600

The municipality of Chirignago offers the public a unique opportunity to celebrate the 1600 year of Venice by making them re-experience the main stages of postal history at the time of the Serenissima Republic.

Three exhibitions and three different places to explain Venice architecture through images. To celebrate Venice 1600 years, Fondazione Venezia – in partnership with M9 Museo del ‘900 and the Circolo Fotografico La Gondola

60 shots that prove the bond between Venice and the Municipality of Meolo. The idea of a photographic exhibition set up inside the evocative frame of the XV century Venetian Villa, Ca’ Cappello, and realized on the occasion of Venice's birthday.

The oldest and deepest roots of Venice lie in Altino. On Sunday, September 19 at 5.00PM, the symbolic place where the origins of the city on the lagoon are traced, will hold the concert “Otto Stagioni”

The toponymy of the municipality of Venice contains a serious mistake: in the sestiereof Castello, what is known today as Campo di Santa Giustina detto de Barbaria should actually be called Campiello

Within the enchanting setting of the Teatro Goldoni, Sunday 12 September, the theatrical performance “La donna di fuoco”, based on the historical character and pioneer of Venetians beads, Marietta Badovier, was presented.

The first greatest anthology ever realized in Venice. Titled “Quella scia di luce lungo il Novecento. Omaggio a Virgilio Guidi”  the famous painter who was born in Rome in 1891 and died in Venice in 1984.

Celebrities swarming the Red Carpet throughout the years, during Venice Lido Film Festival, young boys diving into the Grand Canal, the massive floods of Venice on November 4 1966, elephants crossing bridges 

Yesterday at the Venice Arsenale was presented, as national premieres, the 54 minutes Rai Cultura documentary celebrating the heroic deeds of Captain Francesco Morosini, a significant piece of the Venetian Republic history.

Happy Birthday, Buon Compleanno Venezia! A shower of “starry” wishes from the world-famous celebrities fall over Venice. While swarming the red carpet in Lido, on their way between flashes, interviews and selfies

Palazzo Grassi’s first floor changes its face and celebrates Venice's birthday. It opens tomorrow on Sunday 5^th September at Palazzo Grassi, the exhibition “HyperVenezia”, an event entirely dedicated to the city of Venice 

A special opening with aperitif offers the chance to admire the exhibited works on the live notes of the duo Vendrasco-Tonolo. On Wednesday, September 8, from 7 pm, at the Querini Stampalia Foundation 

A gate for glass pearls art. “Through”, the work of art designed by architect Alessandra Gardin in partnership with the Comunità veneziana dell’arte della perla di vetro (Venetian Community for the glass pearl art)

How do you learn to row? No one teaches you; you just have to get on board and begin, and row for hours, years. It takes concentration, sweat and effort. You row with your head, arms, expertise and with your heart.

Saturday, September 4 at 8.30pm at the Venice Arsenale, will take place the award ceremony of the 59th edition of the annual Italian literary prize “Premio Campiello”. The ceremony will be live broadcasted worldwide

On Sunday, 5th September the Venice Historical Regatta will be held. It is one of the oldest events that take place in the city centre and, this year, will acquire a specific importance as we celebrate Venice 1600 years.

A precious selection of 63 artworks, some of which have never been displayed before whilst others fully restored, is the result of a project that has been carried out for the occasion which also includes the restoration of Tiepolo

From 1-11 September 2021 at Venice Lido, during the year for the 1600th anniversary of the foundation of Venice, the 78th Venice International Film Festival kicks off, organized by La Biennale di Venezia

The fifth edition of the yearly cultural and theatrical performative event (which previously was held in Mirano’s Belvedere Park, every May 1st), this year turns into a special online edition, taking part to the celebrations for Venice 

A magical place, a treat for art experts, where an unrevealed version of Jacopo Palma il Giovane can be admired. Here, throughout the crusade era, soldiers and pilgrims, heading towards or coming back from the Holy Land

Until September 4th Venice is hosting the Cinema Galleggiante – Acque Sconosciute. From sunset until evening (18.00 to 23.00), when the city is transformed by lights that make locals and visitors seem as if they were lulled 

A close bond binds the Capuchin friars of the Monastery of the Redeemer to the people living in the Giudecca Island. An historical bond, which finds its roots back in the 1500s, when the friars, already at the time

“Portogruaro wasn’t the only little village of the mainland in which the blueprint of the Serenissima Dominante was copied and applied faithfully. Houses were large and roomy, with a triple window in the middle

“A poet is a way of life,” said Joseph Brodsky. A great poet, essayist, translator, playwright and teacher, all this is about Brodsky. Venice became for Brodsky a place where he constantly returned in his life

To celebrate the birth of Venice, the Padua State Archive will organize, from September 18th to October 2nd in the room of the Archive, an exhibition that will show a wide selection of the best documents of the collection.

The Scuola Grande di San Rocco is one of the venetian Scuole (or schole) survived both to the Napoleonic era and to the fall of the Repubblica Serenissima. Moreover, it is one of the few Scuole still active in Venice.

St. Rocco’s Feast is one of the major recurrences that, still nowadays, take place in the city of Venice. Each year, on August 16, the Saint is celebrated with a procession that starts from Campo dei Frari 

It is a dialect, although for centuries it has been defined as a language, able to influence the modern Italian language with several words which are still used today. This is what Lorenzo Tomasin, philologist of Venetian origins

To see it, you have to look for it. As soon as you find it, the astonishment is inevitable. Stuck between narrow calli, the “Scala del Bovolo” - which in the venetian dialect means snail - is, due the breath-taking impact

April 25, St. Mark’s Day, is also commonly known as “Festa del bòcolo” In fact, an ancient Venetians tradition handed down up to the present time, wants that exactly on this day men offer as a present a red rose bud 

Until September 19th the exhibition “Francesco Morosini: la difesa di Venezia tra mare e terra a Creta e nel Peloponneso” displayed at the Museo Nazionale Atestino di Este, will be open. The exhibition is organized for Venice

Every year since 1577 Venice set up a path on water, a temporary passage created to reach on foot the symbol of its most heartfelt celebration: the Redentore. This connection allowed Venetians to cross the Giudecca

In the year in which Cristoforo Colombo sailed from Palos with the three caravels on his way to discover the Americas, Doge Agostino Barbarigo, at the Doge Palace, was signing a statute – the Mariegola

Understand the lagoon and respect it to protect its preservation. You have time until October 31 to visit “Laguna InVita - learn to know, respect and protect it. Experience it”, an artistic and informative exhibition for Venice

Is believed to be the oldest church in Venice, built in 421 by a carpenter named Eutinopo, coming from Candia, who devoted himself to Saint James asking him to put out a serious fire on the small island of Rivus Altus.

It stretches along the canal that divides the Island of Giudecca from Venice and looks straight towards Punta della Dogana. It took the name from the term used to call young venetian maidens in poor economic conditions

For more than two decades, the city centre of Moscow has been the theatre of the “Cherry Forest Open Art Festival”, in which exhibitions and shows of the great Italian masters of art, cinema, music and fashion are hosted.

They left Bergamo to come working in Venice where, for centuries, they practiced their art with great knowledge. The tagiapiera (a stonemason, who could also work as builder, master, or architect) the depentor 

The Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola Grande di San Marco open their doors even during the night to celebrate the 1600^th anniversary from the foundation of Venice in order to recreate an ancient bond

On the trail of Venice among ramparts, a winged lion mark, flavours and smells that takes us back to the Serenissima. “Tracce veneziane nelle isole di Cherso e Lussino” is the photography exhibition created to celebrate Venice

The concept of “quarantine”, the forty-day period of isolation reserved for people suffering from contagious diseases and aimed at preventing their expansion, is a true Venetians intuition dated back to the fifteenth century

Someone may remember the threat “If you don’t behave, I’ll send you to San Servolo”, although luckily, this phrase has disappeared, carrying away with it what this island represented for centuries. 

The decorated ceiling that competes with the Doge's Palace, a Christ that has safeguarded the place for ages and that, by twisting of 180 degrees around it, allows you to witness his death, and an incomparable collection

Since the establishment of the city – which dates back to 421 and so this year will celebrate its 1600 birthday - Venetians had to think about possible ways to get drinking water. Originally, they used to collect rainwater

Loggias, frescoes, paintings, stuccoes, monumental halls and the highest terrace in Venice, from which you can enjoy an unrivalled 360-degree view of Venice. Being students of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory

It is in Cannaregio, specifically in the area of San Giobbe, that the “pio luogo delle penitenti” is located. This used to be the place in which young repented prostitutes went to find shelter, be protected, and helped.

In order to see the elliptical stair that seems to challenge gravity laws we have to go to the Ospedale dei Derelitti, commonly known to the venetians as the Ospedaletto. It's a building  where a nursing home was located

On Friday, August 6, the Giorgio Franchetti art Gallery at the Ca' d'Oro opens its doors to “Canaletto incontra Guardi. Vedute veneziane a confronto: il Molo verso la Basilica della Salute", a tribute to the city of Venice