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Just because you can’ travel, it doesn’t mean you can’t discover the secrets of Venice or.. Florence, Torino, Bologna for exemple! Covid-19 pandemy is forcing people to stay at home but we can still meet with people around the world.
We can explore the magic, mysterious symbols of Venice. My experience will begin with an overview of Venice so you can’t virtually get lost. I’ll give you the most important information about Venice: where is located, why is so special and famous. And be ready! Some tricks and fast quizzes are waiting for you in order to help you to focus on the most important details!
You’ll tour my Venice thanks to special views, images and pics I prepared just for you. I’ll try to help you to immerse yourself in the secret Venice that just Venetians know and I am sure you’ll then remember locations and details.
At the end you’ll be ready to come to Venice as soon as possibile! It will be a pleasure to be again your guide!
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If you have three full days to explore Venice, you encountered a delight you’d never read about in any of the many accounts of the city’s history you’d perused, a wonderful legacy of the craft workers who built the city!
Apparently the masons who built Venice brick by brick took special delight in adding a unique fillip to the designs of some of the greatest architects of the age, literally crowning their creations with an extravagant array of chimneys, each unique in its own way.
Venice has about 7,000 chimneys! The chimneys — from the funnel-shaped to those that resemble a twisted pasta noodle — come in 10 different styles. If you’re wondering why anyone would count them all, it’s because they’re part of Venice’s fascinating architectural heritage…could be possible to make a walking tour just to search them!
A distinct architectural characteristic of Venice is found in its chimneys. Try walking around Venice with your nose in the air and you will see an intriguing skyline, punctuated by chimneys of various strange sizes and shapes. These are the same chimneys that can be seen in paintings by Carpaccio and Canaletto
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Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio and the Jewish Ghetto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - the hidden secrets of Venice and Dorsoduro: Venice off the beaten tracks
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Oggi è il 15 aprile ed è necessario parlare di un uomo straordinario anche se dalla storia macchiata da una congiura e uno scandalo. Nel 1423 venne eletto a 49 anni Francesco Foscari (sì, proprio come l'Università Ca' Foscari). Francesco vivrà ben 84 anni! Perchè è così importante ricordarlo? Il suo Dogado è stato il più lungo della storia di Venezia: 34 anni, 6 mesi e 8 giorni (sì è bene essere precisi) ! Se vi sembrano pochi ricordate che i dogi venivano eletti in età avanzata (sinonimo di saggezza e per evitare desideri di potere troppo pronunciati). Francesco Foscari ,se non contiamo i primi secoli particolarmente "vivaci", è stato l'unico doge a essere costretto ad abdicare il 22 ottobre 1457 a seguito di un incredibile scandalo legato a suo figlio. Il giorno dell’abdicazione, a Palazzo Ducale, Francesco Foscari fu privato del corno e dell’anello col sigillo, che fu subito spezzato. Sotto di lui lo Stato da Terra raggiunse la sua massima espansione ma il suo non fu proprio un dogado facile: si attraversarono guerre, carestie, alte maree straordinarie ( e noi ne sappiamo qualcosa), la glaciazione della laguna e una pestilenza (la terribile peste che gli portò via quattro dei suoi undici figli, lasciandogli un solo figlio maschio, Jacopo) e perfino un terremoto.
Viva San Marco, Viva il Doge!
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Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio e il ghetto ebraico
Free Walk in Venice tours - Anima e cuore di Venezia : Carampane and Rialto
Free Walk in Venice tours - Dorsoduro e i segreti di Venezia
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In cannaregio, you will find a special Palace, palazzo Lezze: The name comes from the onwer’s name , Giovanni da Lezze, whose family was from Lecce and they are involved in trades and shipbuilding. Giovanni was a soldier and then became an importat politician in Venice ( Procurator of S. Marco) and in 1611 he began to building the palace that afterwards was completed by the architect Baldassarre Longhena. This Architect had jewish origins and also he had a good knowledge of Cabala and was keen on with esoteric and alchemical studies. He designed the palace and also put some decorations with alchemical meaning. The Alchemy was a doctrine whose followers can find out an equilibrium between brain and heart, culture and moral qualities, penitence and humility and only following this doctrine a man could become a true philosopher. The alchemy foreseens one ‘spiritual’ aspect and a‘ laboratory’ one, that had to join together in the practice. Unfortunately, beside the popular authentic alchemists there were also many charlatans that threatened the reputation. The most popular magic used by the alchemists with laboratory skills, was the transformation of impure materials into gold and silver. The impostors used a hoax with their customers, in fact they used a wooden box with a hid botton where they put some pieces of gold, at the time of the so called "trasformation" they simply pulled out the gold hid in the box. In order to limit the hoaxes, in 1530 the authorities imposed the death penalty for each alchemist. Starting from that moment the spiritual alchemists had to hid theyselves and became to widespead a symbolic language that was understood only but the followers. Among the marble or stone inlays, the most visible and representative is placed in a corner behind the faced of this building.There is a king with a flaming crown with two man at his side and over them are placed two pellicans. On this figures there are the sun and the moon that in the alchemical language the sun represents the phisophical gold and the solar knowledge, the side figures under the sun and the moon are recpectively the Mercury and the salt, materials that transform, meanwhile the pellican is another alchemical picture. The philosopher and the alchemist ‘’Fulcanelli’ called this palace "the phisophical palace of Venice".
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Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - the hidden secrets of Venice and Dorsoduro: Venice off the beaten tracks
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Venezia ha una storia di quasi 16 secoli: si fa risalire la fondazione della città alla leggendaria posa della prima pietra della chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto, San Giacometo, come la chiamano ancora oggi i veneziani. Siamo, secondo la tradizione, nel 421, precisamente il 25 marzo (la chiesa in realtà fu costruita ben dopo l’anno mille). Questa data simbolica è ormai in uso per indicare la nascita della città lagunare.
Ma com’era la Venezia del passato? Tra le antiche mappe della città, ce n’è una, vero e proprio gioiello del Rinascimento italiano, che ancora oggi ci sorprende per la straordinaria fedeltà con cui ci restituisce l’immagine della città lagunare. È la celebre Veduta di Venezia a volo d’uccello di Jacopo de’ Barbari, datata 1500. Ogni edificio, canale o campo della città è qui documentato!
Vero e proprio unicum nella storia della rappresentazione della città, la Veduta – intagliata su sei matrici lignee e stampata su altrettanti fogli – è considerata uno dei massimi capolavori della cartografia urbana di tutti i tempi. Dell’opera, il Museo Correr possiede le originarie matrici in legno di pero, oltre a diversi esemplari della stampa su carta.
Trattp da: detourism Comune di Venezia
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Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio and the Jewish Ghetto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
Venezia ha una storia di quasi 16 secoli: si fa risalire la fondazione della città alla leggendaria posa della prima pietra della chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto, San Giacometo, come la chiamano ancora oggi i veneziani. Siamo, secondo la tradizione, nel 421, precisamente il 25 marzo (la chiesa in realtà fu costruita ben dopo l’anno mille). Questa data simbolica è ormai in uso per indicare la nascita della città lagunare.
Ma com’era la Venezia del passato? Tra le antiche mappe della città, ce n’è una, vero e proprio gioiello del Rinascimento italiano, che ancora oggi ci sorprende per la straordinaria fedeltà con cui ci restituisce l’immagine della città lagunare. È la celebre Veduta di Venezia a volo d’uccello di Jacopo de’ Barbari, datata 1500. Ogni edificio, canale o campo della città è qui documentato!
Vero e proprio unicum nella storia della rappresentazione della città, la Veduta – intagliata su sei matrici lignee e stampata su altrettanti fogli – è considerata uno dei massimi capolavori della cartografia urbana di tutti i tempi. Dell’opera, il Museo Correr possiede le originarie matrici in legno di pero, oltre a diversi esemplari della stampa su carta.
Trattp da: detourism Comune di Venezia
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Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio and the Jewish Ghetto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
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Looking at the columns of the first loggia of the Doge’s Palace, you can easily identify two of different colors where tradition has it that the capital remains were read. It is said, however, that one last hope was offered to the condemned: on the side of the building that overlooks the laguna there is still a column (the fourth starting from the corner) that appears slightly out of alignment with the others. Anyone who could walk around the column without falling off the base could have obtained grace. It seems easy, but even resting your back on the column and trying to crawl on its circumference, there is always a critical point where you lose your balance. Try it to believe it!
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The mascaron of Venice
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The stunning Clock tower of Venice has been watching over the city for over five hundred years, marking the time with absolute precision from a corner of our beautiful Saint Mark’s Square. This is, of course, one of the most famous architectural landmarks in Venice: it overlooks the triumphal arch of the city’s neuralgic shopping street, the ancient "Merceria"connecting Saint Mark's square to Rialto.
Until 1998, the 5 floors of the tower were occupied, as well as by the clock mechanism, also by a guardian, who divided his rooms with the tolling of the Two Moors. Nowadays not anymore. Imagine to be the guardian there? :)
The Moors are two statues which dominate the Clocl tower of Venice and which are not strictly moors after all, but were thus defined by the dark bronze patina that covers them, strike a blow, each one, every five minutes.
What does it mean for the poor guardian ? This means that the poor guardian suffered 24 hourly strokes that in a day make 264 deafening shots.
At noon and midnight, the sundial also accompanies the two noisy and indefatigable moors. To make sure the passage of time is well marked, the sundial re-enacts the 132 shots made by each moor in the previous 11 hours.
Which means that the poor guardian and family listened to 528 chimes a day multiplied by 365 days, that is 192,720 strokes.
The mechanism
The mechanism of the clock tower of Venice has not remained the same since 1499, but has undergone several restorations commissioned to maintain its operation unchanged. The last one was completed in 2006. It is very interesting to look at the cogwheels, the counterweights system and the large 80 cm drums indicating the Roman numerals for the days.
Walking up the stairs, you arrive on the terrace where the Moors and the bell stand out, and from which you can enjoy a breathtaking view of the lagoon.
Venice Clock Tower offer an amazing wonderful view from the terrace, overlooking the Venetian bell towers and streets. There are more than 178, built as rudimentary headlights to send warning messages to ships in the lagoon in wartime.
Venice Clock Tower: the statues of the Magi Kings
If you are in Venice on the day of the Epiphany ( or on the day of Festa Della Sensa) you cannot miss this short but unmissable event, that every year comes to life in Piazza San Marco, observing the Clock Tower.
From midday you can admire the Three Wise Men, the Magi King, in procession in front of the Virgin Mary and the Little Jesus. At the stroke of every hour, from the panel next to the clock, comes out this procession of wooden figures, representing the Nativity, just like a giant carillon.
They come out of a side door preceded by an Angel with a trumpet, bow before Jesus and Mary and fall into the ancient Tower. The statues are not the originals ones of 1499. but a faithful copy made in the 18th century.
The building of the Clock Tower of Venice
The architect Mauro Codussi built the Clock Tower between 1496 and 1499, while the two side wings were added in the eighteenth century.
The complex system of the clock, which marks hour, day, lunar phases and zodiac, was created by the Emilia-based watchmaker Giancarlo Ranieri starting from 1493; according to legend, when the watchmaker had finished his masterpiece, the Inquisitors of State made him blind, so that he could never again build an equal one.
Many thanks to Monica Cesarato blog for details :)
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Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - the hidden secrets of Venice and Dorsoduro: Venice off the beaten tracks
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Everyone knows the history of Marco Polo, but do you know this legend ?
Legend says that when Marco Polo lived in China, he fell in love with one of the Great Khan's daughters and after marrying her, they came back to Venice together. The young and beautiful oriental princess was very sweet and polite, but didn't feel comfortable in the lagoon city and unfortunately she became victim of jealousy on the part of the Marco's sisters.
In 1298, when Marco Polo was captured in battle against the rival Italian city state of Genova (Genoa). So, the envious sisters in law told the chinese girl that her husband was dead; reeling from pain the girl set fire to her clothes and jumped from the windows of Marco Polo's house into the underlying canal (the rio that you can see nowadays on front of the Malibran Theater).
The legend says that, sometimes, if at night you walk through the Milion courtyard (where Polo's houses stood) you can see a white figure floating in the air or you can hear a sweet song of Eastern origin.
There are no certain documents about this story , but a few years ago, during excavations in the foundations of the Malibran Theatre (built on Polo's old houses), human remains belonging to an Asian woman buried with objects of clear Chinese origins and a tiara with the imperial coat were found.
Who was this oriental woman?
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Free Walk in Venice tours - the hidden secrets of Venice and Dorsoduro: Venice off the beaten tracks
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#PEOPLEFIRST ? ? I am proud to ve part of an italian network made by people that connect constantly to share good practices and ideas on how to further develop and improve tourism itineraries. This weekend Free Walking Tour Italia people met in Turin ? ?last week end. La nostra rete è fatta di persone che si connettono costantemente per scambiare buone pratiche ed idee per sviluppare e migliorare percorsi turistici alternativi. Questo weekend la rete si è incontrata a #Torino ?
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My free walk in Venice tours:
Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio and the Jewish Ghetto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - the hidden secrets of Venice and Dorsoduro: Venice off the beaten tracks
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Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio and the Jewish Ghetto
Venice is the most romantic and unique city on the water of the world. I want to show you the real soul of it, helping you to discover the essence and not just the touristic places.
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What are we going to visit:
- the first Jewish Ghetto of the world
- a real venetian park discussing about greenery in Venice
- fondamenta della Misericordia, the meeting point for enjoying the best "cichetti" food in Venice
- Ponte Chiodo, an unique bridge in Venice
- Campo San Zanipolo and the biggest church of Venice
- a political bridge with an hidden message, ponte Borgoloco
- the "mascaron" that is protecting the belltower in campo Santa Maria Formosa
.. and much more. Stop can vary acording to the day, of course the Jewish ghetto is always in the route!
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I will explain the secrets of Venice through these emblematic and historical places, how it was founded, curiosities, and many other things
If you want to know everything about this fantastic city, you can’t miss my interactive Free Walk in Venice!
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Free Walk in Venice tours - Cannaregio and the Jewish Ghetto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - The heart and soul of Venice: Carampane and Rialto tour
Free Walk in Venice tours - the hidden secrets of Venice and Dorsoduro: Venice off the beaten tracks
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