9 things to read today
Teatro Stabile del Veneto Carlo Goldoni
Built in 1622 by the Vendramin family, from which it initially takes its name. At the time, it was also called the Theater of San Salvador or San Luca. Destroyed by a fire in 1653, it was rebuilt within the walls...
Campanile della Valverde o di Sant'Angelo
The fourteenth-century bell tower of Valverde or Sant 'Angelo is located in the north-eastern area of the island of Mazzorbo, where once there was a religious complex of considerable size, a witness that survived the...
The mischievous servant girl: Colombina
Representing the popular Venice of the time with her humble profession as a servant employed by a noble patrician family. An attractive girl with beautiful features who is self-confident, cunning and sometimes...
Scola grande Tedesca
"Bet ha-kenèset hagedolà Kerminag askenazim" is the legible inscription on the entrance portal of the Synagogue and signifies that we are in front of the ‘great school according to the Germa n rite’, a gift from Joseph...
Filanda Romanin-Jacur
Built by Leone Romanin-Jacur in 1872, the spinning mill is an ancient silk factory consisting of a central body, where the machine and spinning room were located, and two side wings with a portico. It undoubtedly...
Vitale Falier Dodoni
Era stato il principale istigatore della sommossa che aveva portato alla deposizione del suo predecessore Domenico Selvo (1071-1084).Nel 1084 rifondò una chiesa costruita nell’anno 700 e la dedicò a san Vitale, in...
Masks and faces in historical symbolism and in the modern Venetian Carnival
A centre for the production of masks since the Middle Age, and home to private collections of this kind of item (evidently prematurely freed from their theatrical functions to become carnivalesque and assume a singular...
Church of Sant'Agnese
Its construction date is uncertain, even if very ancient, some place it at the end of the 10th century while others make it belong to the following century. Its first rebuilding dates back to the early twelfth century...
Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Nicolò di Pietro, commissioned by the Tuscan merchant Francesco Amadi, created, in 1408, an image of the "Virgin and Child between two Saints" and its owner decided to place this work outside his home. Immediately...
