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The medal constitutes a highly subjective testimony; it envisages a commissioner (almost always an individual or an association) who, autonomously, decides to celebrate or commemorate a certain event or character by playing on the very potential of…

It has become a tradition that the Venetian carnival officially opens at noon on the first Sunday of carnival with the 'Svolo del Turco', also called 'Volo dell'Angelo' or 'Volo della Colombina'. This is among the oldest carnival festivities handed…

In Venice we all surely know what it means to cross the threshold of a museum, a palace open to the public, a church, even a bar. Something as natural as breathing is wandering through the calli and campi of the city, looking here and there, passing…

From the moment you are born, you begin to learn countless pieces of information, about yourself and the world around you. You learn one or more languages, you learn to speak, to read, to write, to think. This body of knowledge then leads you to…

In recent years, there has been a focus on the climate of our planet, and more specifically, information in general has focused much more on ongoing climate change and lately on the concept of climate crisis. Why we talk about the climate crisis:…

An ecosystem in equilibrium is implicitly sustainable because it is able to regulate itself. The more stable it is, the greater its ability to manage internal and external factors that tend to alter its equilibrium. In a more everyday definition,…

Exploring Venice without looking upwards means missing out on a level of Venetian storytelling and history composed of innumerable signs, nizioleti and patare that can hardly be discovered and understood in most books and guidebooks dedicated to the…

Of course li omini boni wish to know. Thus Leonardo (1452-1519) reaffirmed the centrality of knowledge and the need for science, art and technique to be profoundly united. It was precisely this perfect interpenetration that enabled Leonardo to…

Venice June 1509. How was the Serenissima in the midst of a very bloody war? Let us not forget to focus on the fact that it was a real metropolis, also full of outsiders, comparable to the New York of today. Do you remember the figures I reported…

Zanetta Farussi was actually called Maria Giovanna Farussi or Farusso; however, she was nicknamed la Buranela. She was beautiful, talented, but also frivolous and selfish. She was married, but had numerous lovers, friends and protectors. A theatre…

The shape of Venice, reminiscent of a fish, is a group of islands and islets connected by bridges, the city's real connecting links: It is thanks to them that we can enjoy an extensive pedestrian area where we can easily walk from one neighbourhood…

In a city like Venice, constantly under attack from the sea and its high waters, as well as from uncontrolled building, green areas and natural oases are a precious heritage that cannot be sacrificed but, on the contrary, must be protected with…