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Not a carnival costume but rather a symbol of death, used to remember how much pain and suffering the disease brought to Venice. The shape of the curved beak on the white mask quickly brings to mind the beak of a vulture, a bird notoriously…

The Teatro della Murata, founded with the name of Teatrino della Murata, is a space that hosts about 70 spectators. The theater was created from a warehouse in the center of Mestre. The building that houses the theater is connected to what remains…

Palazzo Porto-Colleoni-Thiene, commonly known under the name of Castello di Thiene, was built in 1450 at the behest of Francesco Porto, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the Vicenza area, for the storage of agricultural products.…

Among his works, the most significant are: the frescoes of the archiepiscopal palace of Udine (1726-30), the canvases for the Scuola del Carmine in Venice which represent one of his pearls (1743) and the frescoes for the residence of Carlo Filippo…

Jacopo Robusti was born in Venice in 1519, nicknamed Tintoretto due to the his Baptist father’s profession. One of the paintings that greatly contributed to his fame was that executed in the middle of the century for the Scuola Grande di San Marco.…

Amongst Cadore's earliest achievements are the frescoes on the ground facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in 1508-1509. At the same time, Giorgione was working on the façade on the Grand Canal. The programme of the entire decoration, which was…

He was 71 years old (he was born in 1343) and was affectionately called Tommasone. He was a bachelor, but with a natural daughter; he had a good military and diplomatic background. On 24 January 1405 m.v. he was elected procurator of St Mark de…

The theater arrived in Mestre at the end of the eighteenth century, thanks to the Balbi brothers and the Venetian architect Maccaruzzi. Finally Mestre, a holiday resort at the time, was enriched with a cultural space. With the fall of the Republic…

Located a short distance from the islands of Burano, Mazzorbo and Mazzorbetto, the current name of the island of Torcello seems to derive from Dorceum - a marshy islet - or from Turricellum, probably the name of one of the ports of ancient Altinum.…

The Colombara Tower, near Forte Tron, dates back to the first half of the 19th century, is in neo-Gothic style and has a square plan structure with openings on all four sides. It has never been used as a place for breeding birds while it has carried…

Located to the right of the St Mark’s Basilica and overlooking the lagoon, the Clock tower was once the entrance door to the Mercerie, an area for all types of trading that led up to Rialto, the banking center Serenissima. The Tower, about thirty…

After the fall of the Serenissima in 1797, the militarization of the Venetian lagoon began by the French and Austro-Hungarian governments which established the Maritime Stronghold in Forti Staccati; this involved the construction of military…