Piazza San Marco gets ready for the invasion of runners
A good 7000 runners in the marathon and a further 6000 doing the ten kilometres will have the honour of running through one of the most beautiful squares in the world. Once again...
Fifth Venice Challenge for maxi-yachts in the Bacino di San Marco
On Saturday 20 October the Bacino di San Marco will host the fifth ‘Venice Hospitality Challenge’ starting at 1.30 pm. This is one of the few sailing...
Happy birthday!
Best wishes to Associazione Piazza San Marco: a long history rich in content and successes that we would like to briefly report. Associazione Piazza San Marco (APSM) was...
Zucchero coming to St Mark’s Square for two concerts
St Mark’s Square rediscovers rock music after seven years with the Zucchero concert, where he will sing his big hits on 3 and 4 July before a full house. This very...
The mega-yachts and the frecce tricolori arrive in St Mark’s Basin
The Venice Arsenale is a historic place that could become the venue for important trade fairs related to the sea, according to the city council. The Big Basin is ideal for this...
Zucchero “Sugar” Fornaciari in concert in July in St Mark’s Square
After seven years’ absence, the Venice city council has decided to bring pop-rock music back to St Mark’s Square. As explained in its press release, ‘on 3...
The Associazione Piazza San Marco guidelines for safeguarding the city
An article written by Alberto Vitucci in today’s La Nuova Venezia has anticipated the Associazione Piazza San Marco guidelines on the problem of managing and...
Europe takes centre stage in Venice and St Mark’s Square
Europe takes centre stage in Venice from 5 to 31 May with ‘The European Cultural Heritage for the Public’, a big event to celebrate the Festival of Europe, now in...
The ‘battle’ of the turnstiles...
Never as in these weeks has Venice, and especially its Square, been at the centre of the debate in newspaper pages and on the main television channels. Once again it is the...
‘Earth Hour’ kicks off in St Mark’s Square.
Venice will once again this year take part in the eleventh international EARTH HOUR, which the WWF is organising on Saturday 24 March from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm. St Mark’s...
Important new exhibitions coming to the Doge’s Palace
Today’s Corriere del Veneto presented a preview of the Fondazione Musei Civici programme in a long article on the culture page by Veronica Tuzii, announcing a good...
A meeting of the association’s members at the Bauer Hotel was very well attended.
A meeting of the Associazione Piazza San Marco took place at the Bauer Hotel on 12 December 2013. A very important and well attended occasion that allowed all members and...
The meeting on tourism between the EU and China at the Doge’s Palace ended successfully
The summit on EU-China tourism that was held yesterday at the Doge’s Palace in St Mark’s Square met all expectations. Four hundred invited guests followed the...
All go for Carnival 2018 with the people counter!
The Venice Carnival will officially start on 27 January 2018. St Mark’s Square will become the centre of the celebrations from 3 to 13 February taking on the appearance...
The opening of the Year of Europe-China Tourism 2018 in Venice confirmed
We anticipated this in a previous news item but now it is official: the Venice city council meeting in Ca’ Farsetti approved the protocol of understanding between the...
Christmas lights up in St Mark’s Square on 1 December!!!
At 6 o’clock on Friday 1 December 2017, the chairman of the Associazione Piazza San Marco Claudio Vernier and the Rey families invite all members and supporters to the...
“Welcome Chinese” 2018 will be held in St Mark’s Square on 19 January 2018
“Welcome Chinese” 2018 Year of European-China Tourism will take place in the prestigious Doge’s Palace in St Mark’s square on 19 January 2018. It...
Venice Fashion Night 2017 at the start
From now until 28 October 2017 Venice will host meetings, fashion parades and creative performances as part of this year’s ‘Venice Fashion Night’...
Wednesday 4 October the presentation of the ‘new’ Procuratie Vecchie
The Associazione Piazza San Marco had for many years been hoping for the upgrading of the Procuratie Vecchie. The Generali project ‘The Human Safety Net’,...
Protection, safeguarding and decency of St Mark’s Square: the decisions of the Venice City Council
The Venice City Council Administration’s press conference, which presented the decisions taken by the Venice City Council to defend and safeguard St Mark’s...
Heavy penalties in defence of the decency of the city!
The Associazione Piazza San Marco has always been in the front line of the battle for the decency of and respect for the city. Today’s news, as reported not only by local...
