Halloween night is coming!

Get ready for the most frightful night in the year in the best way. Many Italian cities are planning to give parties and masked balls for 31st October to remind macabre atmospheres of ghosts wandering on earth.

This typically American party has become popular in Italy in the last years, with a bigger success every year. Don’t lose the chance to spend this night at best. There are lots of opportunities to spend a mysterious and frightful night both for adults and children, let’s see some!

Milan gets ready for the “witches’ night”

Venice is one of the most charming cities in the world, a rare treasure famous for its architectural beauty, romanticism and peculiarities, such as living with high water, a phenomenon that is kept under control also by the Venice Marathon event staff.

The 26th edition of Venice Marathon will take place on Sunday 23rd October 2011. This year, probably the 7,000 athletes will be lucky: they will have the chance to cross the wonderful Piazza San Marco.

Start is located in Stra (a small country town about 25 km west of Venice), at the beginning of “Riviera del

Are you ready? The International Theater Festival will be held in Venice from 10th to 16th October 2011 within the framework of Venice Biennale.

It’s a kind of festival-workshop. The newly-appointed Catalan director Àlex Rigola has imagined the festival as an “agora of theatre”, inviting the leading personalities on the international scene –directors, choreographers, artists, architects and set designers, experts in video-writing and lighting creators – to make Venice

On Sunday September, 4th 2011, the traditional and very ancient Historical Regatta comes back in Venice with the typical Venetian rowing, a unique discipline born in Venice hundreds years ago.

The historical Regatta is celebrated every first Sunday of September and it’s one of the most appreciated events by Venetians since it is the most important moment of the agonistic season of Venetian rowing clubs. It took place for the first time on 10th January 1315 during Giovanni Soranzo’s reign, in order to pay homage

Once again, the 68th edition of Venice Film Festival will be organized by Venice Biennale and will take place at Lido in Venice from August, 31st to September, 10th 2011.

The Festival wants to encourage the knowledge and the diffusion of international cinema through all the shapes of art, show and industry, following the spirit of freedom and tolerance. In addition, the festival will include exhibitions to pay homage to important personages, as a contribute to a better awareness

Redentore Festival in the beautiful and charming city of Venice is coming back. It’s one of the most ancient and traditional events of Venice and since 1576 it has been celebrating.

This year the event will be held on July, Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th 2011. Venetians love this kind of celebration and most of all they wait for the famous and magical night of fireworks in the lagoon. A real light show surrounded by a charming atmosphere!

In the past, such an event was celebrated to remember the end of one of the most serious plague epidemics in Venice.

On Saturday 16th July 2011, Venetians will begin with the preparations of the boats and the deliciousness for the dinner. Visitors will have the chance to see the celebrations of Redentore Festival taking a seat in the several balconies, on boats or in the streets of the city, even enjoying one of the many interesting itineraries in Venice.

And now, let’s have a look at the events scheduled:

Saturday 16th July 2011 – At 7 p.m., the votive bridge made up of punts joining the Redentore Church with the Giudecca Island will be open. At 9.30 p.m., the will be a concert of Banda Musicale di Tessera C.C.R.T. at Fondamenta Zattere who will play Venetian traditional music. At 11.30 p.m., a striking fireworks show will wonder the crowd in the St. Mark’s Basin (on the background of the famous, stunning Piazza San Marco) until midnight.

Sunday 17th July 2011 – At 11.30 a.m. Giardini della Marinaressa (Riva Sette Martiri) will be open to the public. The Redentore Regattas will begin at 4 p.m., whereas at 7 p.m. the Holy Mass will be held at Redentore Church.

In addition, an extraordinary public transportation service will be activated on this occasion. In the night of Saturday 16th July, the following trains will be extraordinarily activated from Venice to the main cities of the Veneto Region:

- From Venice Santa Lucia to Mestre: departures at 01:01 – 01:10 – 01:20 – 01:50 – 02:05 a.m.
- From Venice Santa Lucia to Padova: departures at 02:10 a.m., with stops in all the stations but Porto Marghera;
- From Venice Santa Lucia to Treviso: departures at 02:42 a.m., with stops in Mestre, Mogliano Veneto, Preganziol;
- From Venice Santa Lucia to Vicenza: departures at 02:50 a.m., with stops in all the stations but Porto Marghera.

Finally, the “People Mover”, the cable railway linking Tronchetto Island to the maritime station and Piazzale Roma, in the night of Saturday 16th July will be active until 3 a.m. (last departure at 2.50 a.m.).

If you haven’t yet visited Venice, this could be the perfect occasion for doing it!

For having more information about events in Venice, useful addresses, phone numbers, maps, or just to book a hotel in Venice, please visit the website About Venice.

The traditional competition among the 8-rowers galleons representing the ancient Italian Maritime Republics, Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice, this year will take place in Venice on Sunday June, 12th 2011.

As a matter of fact, such an event, born in 1955, every year takes place in one of the four cities that commemorate the most important historical happenings linked to their own city.

As usual, the race will be preceded by the renowned historical parade, during which each Republic will wear period clothes and proudly show in the streets of Venice the flags with the coat of arms of its own city,

On Sunday 5th June 2011, Venice’ traditional celebration Festa della Sensa will come back in the beautiful lagoon gathering once again thousands visitors who arrive to marvel at the city’s treasures and many events.

Festa della Sensa (or Ascension’s Day) pays homage to the thousand-years-long history of the Serenissima, its relationship with the sea and with the practice of Venetian rowing.

Such a celebration was a festivity organized by the Republic of Venice on the occasion of the Christ Ascension’s day (in Venetian dialect Sensa). It commemorates two important events for the

There’s still a few days for you to visit the wonderful and striking exhibition in Venice dedicated to the art of glass.

Until April, 25th (just in Easter time) it will be possible to visit at Correr Museum in Venice the retrospective called L’Avventura del vetro. Un millennio d’arte

Spring has just arrived, temperature is rising and Italy is celebrating its 150 years of Unity. What better way to celebrate than tasting delicious chocolate and having a walk along the feasting streets discovering places ever visited but few kilometers or maybe meters far from our hotel?

In Turin, CioccolaTò has come back: the  famous chocolate fair, this year a cut above. The city, center of celebrations for 150th of Italian Unity together with Rome, throws a double charge of events dedicated to Gods’ Food, a gourmand and funny occasion both for tourists and for the ones well-knowing Turin.

Turin XIX century cafés with a great historical importance played a first line role in the spread of chocolate all along the Region and the country and they contribute in building Made in Italy chocolate tradition. That’s the reason why the event will involve not only the historical center fo Turin, but also