A BIG MUSEUM CENTRE TO BE CREATED IN ST MARK’S SQUARE?
An interesting circular museum exhibition area could be created according to the Fondazione Musei Civici with the intervention of Generali in the Procuratie Vecchie and...
THE SU E ZO' PER I PONTI INVADES ST MARK’S SQUARE
A fine, mild and sunny day accompanied almost 12,000 people on the “Su e Zò per i ponti”, in which St Mark’s Square once again played a leading part. The numerous...
The Associazione Piazza San Marco writes to the prefect, the chief of police and Venice city council’s special commissioner regarding the squalid situation in St Mark’s Square
National and local newspapers have for days now been reporting on the squalid situation in the city and the St Mark’s area due to a chaotic tourist invasion and the...
‘HIERONYMUS BOSCH A VENEZIA’
The Doge’s apartment in the Doge’s Palace in St Mark’s Square will host the ‘Hieronymus Bosch a Venezia’ exhibition from 18 February to 4 June. The exhibition is...
LA NUOVA VENEZIA: 100 MILLION EURO PROJECT READY TO ISOLATE ST MARK’S SQUARE FROM THE HIGH TIDES
According to Alberto Vitucci, journalist at La Nuova Venezia, which today dedicated two pages to the projects to safeguard the city, the new president of the former...
IT IS NECESSARY TO ACT TO ‘ISOLATE’ ST MARK’S BASILICA AND THE SQUARE FROM THE HIGH TIDES!
The primo procuratore di San Marco Carlo Alberto Tesserin met the new president of the Provveditorato alle opere pubbliche Roberto Linetti in recent days asking for help in...
A 66 METRE LONG BOOK AT THE BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE MARCIANA
It is called “Metropolis” (photo Nuova Venezia) and from today can be seen along with other important artistic publications at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St...
NEW YEAR’S EVE IN ST MARK’S SQUARE FOR 100,000 PEOPLE
St Mark’s Square stood up to the invasion of thousands of people who celebrated the arrival of 2017 in the square watching the fireworks that lit up St Mark’s Basin at...
ST MARK’S SQUARE FORTIFIED FOR THE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES
The umpteenth terrorist attack that hit Berlin in these days has led to an increase in security and checks in many Italian cities, as reported by all the local and national...
EXHIBITIONS AND GUIDED VISITS FOR THE AQUAGRANDA IN ST MARK’S SQUARE
The events commemorating the big flood of 1966 continue in number in St Mark’s Square. The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and the Comune di Venezia have organised a series...
THE PROJECT TO PROTECT ST MARK’S BASILICA FROM THE HIGH TIDES IS PRESENTED
The Procuratoria di San Marco officially presented the project to protect St Mark’s Basilica and the narthex from high tides, including low-medium tides, on Friday...
NEW PROCURATIA PROJECT TO PROTECT ST MARK’S BASILICA FROM THE HIGH TIDES
A new Procuratia di San Marco project to avert the frequent flooding of St Mark’s Basilica caused by low-medium tides will be presented in the next few days in detail. The...
THE ‘AQUA GRANDA 1966 - 2016’ EVENTS PRESENTED
The press conference (see photo) presenting the events that will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 4 November 1966 flood was held today in Ca’ Farsetti at midday....
ST MARK’S SQUARE HOSTED THE BIG PAUL MCCARTNEY CONCERT 40 YEARS AGO
Last Sunday some Beatles fans belonging to the ‘Beatlesiani d’Italia Associati’ association met in St Mark’s Square to recall with music, banners and posters the...
THE ALDO MANUZIO GREEK EDITIONS ON DISPLAY AT THE MARCIANA LIBRARY
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, in association with the Fondazione Aikaterini Laskaridis, yesterday opened the exhibition ‘Le edizioni greche di Aldo Manuzio e i...
EUROPEAN CITIES COMPARE NOTES AT THE DOGE’S PALACE
An important meeting will take place in St Mark’s Square on Monday 5 September. The Doge’s Palace will host the first international forum ‘Mille città, milioni di...
STRICTER CONTROLS IN THE ST MARK’S AREA AND ST MARK’S SQUARE
The coordinated controls made by all the forces of order in the Square and surrounding areas were increased yesterday after a tourist was struck and injured by some illegal...
“GREAT TIDE” OF 1966: COMMITTEE SET UP TO REMEMBER THE 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE ASSOCIAZIONE PIAZZA SAN MARCO
The fifty year anniversary of the flood that violently struck all of the North-East and hit Venice with an exceptional high tide of 194 cm above the average sea level will fall...
SAN MARCO GUARDIANS: LAUNCH OF THE 2016 PROJECT AT THE END OF JUNE
The San Marco Guardians will finally once again become operational at the end of June. The interviews to select the fifteen, multi-lingual professionals who must inform the...
SEAGULL EMERGENCY IN VENICE AND ST MARK’S SQUARE
The Associazione Piazza San Marco has for some time been engaged in the problem of the seagull invasion of St Mark’s Square - though actually a problem affecting the whole...
