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One of the most popular idioms in modern speech. It means "hold on", "go ahead" despite the problems and is often used as moral support in difficult situations, towards each other: "Duri i banchi vecio!" (hard at the benches buddy!) The original…

He was 85 years old (he was born in 1107). He was the first doge to swear the Doge's Promission, the statute regulating the doge's powers, i.e. the constitutional oath solemnly binding him before the patriciate, which had just been passed by the…

The church, often confused with the homonymous temple located on the island of Mazzorbo, was built in the 11th century by Augustinian monks - called "Sacchini" or "Sacchiti" because of the clothes they wore -, who also built the adjoining monastery…

Elena Celsi, widow of Marco Vioni, with a testament dated January 2, 1409, donated her house, which stood next to the Sepulcher bridge, to give refuge to the poor and pilgrims going to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. In 1471 the two Venetian…

The church of the Holy Trinity - and the adjacent monastery - were built between the 11th and 12th centuries in the Dorsoduro district, in the last stretch of the Grand Canal that flows into the San Marco Basin. In 1256 - to thank the Teutonic…

Close to the fall of the Serenissima Republic, Count Girolamo Manfrin, an entrepreneur in the tobacco sector, acquired a palace in Cannaregio from the Venier family in 1787, now known as Palazzo Priuli Manfrin. In this building, Manfrin kept and…

The building, located next to the gallop, was erected in 1949 on a project by the architect Enrico Venturini and served to cover the guests of the pigeon shooting range from bad weather (today this discipline has been prohibited and replaced by…

In 1877, the first Italian watch factory was founded here, taken over in 1899 by the German Jughans. At the time, it was the largest watch factory in the world, with production reaching 1,500 watches per day in the 1920s. During the Second World War…

The Feast of the Redentore is the fest most felt by the Venetians. In 1575 Italy was hit by a terrible plague epidemic and Venice was not immune to it; the terrible disease in fact spread throughout the city for almost two years, reaping more than…

The Madonna della Salute has an origin of mourning and suffering, and still remains a devotional feast for Venetians today. At the beginning of the 1600s Italy was going through a turbulent period, both because of the constant reshuffling in the…

On the day of Sensa (Ascension) the historic "Marriage of the sea" is celebrated, in memory of the conquest of Dalmatia by Venetian ships headed by the doge Pietro Orseolo II in 999. This feast is a thousand years old; it is one of the oldest…

In Italy, every April 25, the day of liberation from the Nazi-fascist army in 1945 is commemorated, for Venetians this date has a twofold and even deeper bond: it represents the date of martyrdom and death of the patron, San Marco Evangelist, whose…