Venice is one of those rare unique cities in the world
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Venice is one of those rare unique cities in the world, just like Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul and perhaps Paris. How many things have already happened there! In Piazza San Marco, in the Basilica, in the decisions of the doges inside the Doge’s Palace. The black money that circulated in the golden times of the silk and spice trade generated strength and importance for the city.
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Venice, the jewel of the Veneto
In Veneto, the language and not the region of Italy, the city is called Venice.
Walking through its cold and empty alleys at night is a unique experience.
We went for a walk at 10.30pm towards the famous Rialto Bridge. I suggested we just see the famous building and head back to the hotel. Without using Google Maps and simply following the signs at the top of the buildings, sometimes with little arrows pointing “to Rialto” and sometimes “to San Marco”, we arrived at the place easily.
A simple mistake made us end up in front of an access point to the Grand Canal. Palaces from the time of the Doges in the 15th century bear witness to the relief felt in knee-deep water.
From Rialto we were excited to walk to San Marco and see the empty square. First, a strategic stop to eat something, drink a beer and finish watching Inter’s match against Liverpool, who won away from home, but did not qualify. The owner of the bar, a Chinese/Italian Mário, treated us well, bringing us snacks without us asking and leaving the bar open until it was time to leave.
In the cold of the night I remembered Goethe. The German poet who was there during two weeks of his famous “Trip to Italy”. Between 1786 and 1788, under a false name, the famous writer realized his old dream of traveling around Italy.
Passing the Brenner Pass, Lake Garda, Malcesine, Verona, Venice, Rome, Naples, Vesuvius and Taormina in Sicily, his travelogue became a bestseller and to this day inspires Germans to follow his itinerary.
Venice is a Disneyland for adults, as the inhabitants of this unique city define it. In high season the city of 272 thousand inhabitants is invaded by 130 thousand tourists. They say a law is about to be passed that will limit the number of daily tourists and charge a high tax to fund the maintenance and conservation of this unique jewel.
Serene
The city was the capital of the historic Republic of Venice and is also known as “La Dominante”, “Serenissima”, “Queen of the Adriatic”, “City of Water”, “Floating City” and “City of Canals”.
The Republic was a great maritime power during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and was a stopping point for the Crusades, as well as a very important trading center for silk and spices. The reign of “La Dominante” circulated wealth throughout the city for almost its entire history.
A cappuccino in Piazza San Marco costs 11 euros, but comes with biscuits and chocolate, as well as the traditional glass of water. You pay for the view of the Campanile, St. Mark’s Basilica, the adjacent Palazzo Ducale and the square itself. At night, the two famous cafés, the Caffè Florian, meeting place of Gustav Mahler and many other famous people, and the Gran Caffè Quadri, give life to an inspired musical duel.
The Bridge of Sighs is behind the Doge’s Palace, which I have never entered, connecting it to the prison. The Ducale was the ancient seat of the Doge of Venice, the highest authority of the Republic.
The Chinese bought many things there. From famous buildings and hotels to restaurants that look local from both the outside and inside, but whose owners actually speak Mandarin. Their quality has dropped a lot and finding a root is one of the most difficult things nowadays.
Luckily we found one where two gondoliers left after lunch. It looked nice and was full. Right in the center of the target!
The tour is only complete if you take a vaporetto, vaporetto or taxi boat to appreciate all the beauty and splendor of this jewel of Baroque and Renaissance architecture overlooking the Grand Canal.
As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: If I were to look for a word that could replace “music” I might think of “Venice”.
Worth seeing and reading
FILM: Bloody Winter in Venice – Nicolas Roeg (1973). Nocturnal suspense in the City of Canals.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen this movie. It is classified as Fantastic Cinema, a subgenre of the Seventh Art that made a lot of noise in the 70s with “The Exorcist”, “The Chain Saw Massacre”, “Suspiria”, recently remade, among others.
In the film, the couple Laura (Julie Christie) and John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) decide to start a new life in Venice after the tragic accidental death of their daughter who drowned in a lake. John would work on the restoration of sacred paintings in a church, where the couple met two strange sisters, both now elderly. One of them claims to have had contact with the spirit of his deceased daughter and warns the couple of the risks they run in Venice. At first John has doubts about it, but he begins to have mysterious visions.
The atmosphere of suspense grows as Laura and John delve deeper into the “Queen of the Adriatic”. Filmed in winter and featuring several night sequences through mazes of dark alleys, strange situations begin to occur after one of the sisters, who is a medium and blind, claims to have seen the spirit of the dead girl.
The film has a controversial sex scene between the couple who supposedly actually had sex on the film set, a fact never confirmed.
BOOK: Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (1912). In search of beauty and perfection.
Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film of the same name features Dirk Bogarde in the role of Gustav von Aschenbach. It’s a fairly monotonous and tiring classic, which is why I don’t recommend it.
The book written by Thomas Mann is a timeless classic, first published in German in 1912. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Austrian composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice in search of rest after a period of artistic stress and personal.
Without finding the desired peace, she falls platonically in love with the young Polish Tadzio the Handsome, spending the holidays with his family. The boy embodies the ideal of beauty imagined by Gustav who decides to leave before doing something stupid, but is forced to stay in Venice because his luggage has been lost.
The metaphor of the handsome boy who represents the beauty of the city is evident. Thomas Mann was a reader of Goethe and to write the book he was inspired by the diaries of “Viaggio in Italia”. It is a complex piece of writing with different interpretations for each paragraph.
Despite the simplicity of the story, themes such as homosexuality, the perfection of youth, the composer’s narcissistic passion and the search for physical form and the dream of eternal beauty in art permeate this classic.
Gustav’s search and obsession for Tadzio is the eternal search for the beautiful, the perfect.
SHOW: Pink Floyd in Venice (1989). A show impossible to make nowadays.
I was a teenager when I watched it on TV. I had no idea about the city or the importance of the band. Much less the logistics and paraphernalia needed to put on a show like this.
I still wonder how they managed to put a stage with all those lights and special effects typical of Pink Floyd in a narrow city, full of historic buildings and monuments.
They say the show shook the city’s structures. I don’t know if it’s a legend or if they really measured the “damage” that David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason did there.
Nessa relationship with several photos We have an idea of what the mega concert was. A floating stage was set up in front of St. Mark’s Square for the free show on the day of the Redeemer, the city’s patron saint, 15 July 1989. It was sponsored by RAI and broadcast live on television to more than 100 million people in 20 countries
Without enough toilets to handle the horde of fans, the city became dirty and the monuments were severely damaged. All you needed was a train or bus ticket to get to the city and see the show. Without money for accommodation, the majority slept there, transforming San Marco into a huge open-air dormitory.
Nothing that Floyd’s sound didn’t make up for during the 90 minute show. A classic that you can watch in full Here.
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Source: Terra
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