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Rediscovering Venice and its treasures

“Venice to rediscover. Hidden treasures in the churches of Venice”:It’s an important event promoted to develop cultural turism by opening the doors of all the artistic treasures of the city.

With this initiative tourists and citizens of Venice are given the possibility of discover and rediscover the artistic works and treasures of the churches and of the places which normally are not opened to the public for security reasons.

Tourists that visit the city every day are numerous and they come from all over the world to admire the artistic splendour of the Serenissima, but never before Venice has opened the doors to all its visitors in this way.

With “Venice to rediscover” even the unskilled can appreciate beautiful sculptures, paintings and private treasures accurately preserved and they will come into contact with the huge artistic and cultural patrimony of the city.

Among the churches opened to the public and the artistic works they preserve you will have the possibility of visiting St. Paul’s Church ( here is kept the Via Crucis by Giandomenico Tiepolo), the Temple of the Saint Redemptor (the Orti dei Cappuccini) and the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (with the Pala Pesaro and the Assunta by Tiziano Vecellio).

Until the 31st of Dicember, everyone who can be interested will have free access to the most beautiful churches of Venice, across an artistic itinerary unique in its kind. (more…)

FLORENCE: SAINT LAWRENCE FESTIVITY

Like every year on 10th August, in quarter San Lorenzo in Florence, took place the celebration in honor of Saint Lawrence and the Church of which he is also a patron.

The procession, that here we show with some pictures, paraded on the streets in the city center to the Basilica of San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence), the most antique in the city.

Loved through the centuries, by Lords and poor people, the Church was consecrated in 393 from Saint Ambrose.
The Church became famous thanks to Medici family who created there their own mausoleum ( Cappelle Medicee, in reality are the part of the monumental complex of San Lorenzo).

The festivity in the honor of the Saint, prince of martyr, has antique traditions: on 10th August, apart from costume procession (which takes place also nowadays on the day of San Lorenzo), there was also horse Palio, from Porta San Gallo to Borgo San Lorenzo and during the celebration Mass memorabilia of the Saint were exposed.

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