ALBERTO NARDI: MOSE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO SAVE ST MARK’S SQUARE FROM HIGH TIDES
Mass media attention focused on the statement made by the Associazione Piazza San Marco on the problem of flooding in St Mark’s Square even with the Sistema Mose in...
NEW YEAR’S EVE IN ST MARK’S SQUARE FINALLY WITHOUT VANDALISM
Sixty thousand people chose to see in the new year from St Mark’s Square and the Riva degli Schiavoni. Compared to previous years, the idea of ‘moving’ the fireworks to...
A NEW GUIDE TO ST MARK’S BASILICA
The new guide to St Mark’s Basilica by the German scholar Wolfgang Wolters will be presented at Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, on Wednesday 3 December. ‘San Marco a...
ENDLESS HIGH TIDES
It is now some days that the high tide, at various levels, has continued to flood Venice and the lowest parts of the city. Yesterday evening it reached 120 cm above sea level with...
TWO ITEMS OF GOOD NEWS FOR ST MARK’S SQUARE
Good news for St Mark’s Square and its cultural assets. The Palazzo della Zecca, the 16th-century building facing the quay that was built to a design by Jacopo Sansovino and...
VENICE CITY COUNCIL IN SEARCH OF SPONSORS TO RESTORE VENETIAN MONUMENTS
An interesting and detailed article by Enrico Tantucci in today’s Nuova Venezia newspaper says that the city council’s commissioner Vittorio Zappalorto is looking...
ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR THE VENICE MARATHON!
A celebration for 6000 people, a wonderful charge of sports people of all ages that filled the long route from the Riviera del Brenta to the St Mark’s area and the Riva degli...
TOO MANY DIFFERENT FORECASTS FOR THE TIDES?
The Corriere del Veneto asks this today, as does the Associazione Piazza San Marco in the light of what the newspaper writes about tomorrow’s forecasts for the high tide....
PAOLO COSTA: A TICKET TO GET INTO ST MARK’S SQUARE
Problems relating to the presence of tourists in Venice have been being discussed for days in the city and in the national press. ‘Mass tourism’ often out of control which...
FIRST HIGH WATER OF THE SEASON IN ST MARK’S SQUARE
On Wednesday 8 October St Mark’s Square was partly submerged by the high tide: 91 cm above the average sea level was enough to submerge part of the Square and the Procuratie...
ST MARK’S SQUARE IS ALWAYS NEWS
St Mark’s Square, for better or worse, is always at the centre of public attention and especially that of the mass media. On the evening of Monday 22 September Venice was...
THE NEXT VENICE MARATHON PRESENTED WITH LOTS OF SURPRISES AND ST MARK’S SQUARE ALWAYS AT ITS CENTRE
The Venice Marathon doubles! The new VM10KM was launched yesterday during a press conference at the Hilton Garden Inn in Mestre: the first non-competitive ten kilometre run...
HIGH WATER IN ST MARK’S SQUARE: NEVER SO HIGH IN JULY
The rain over recent days and the anomalous bad weather for this period that has struck north Italy in these weeks brought to the city a record 100 cm high tide in July, something...
PAOLO CONTE IN CONCERT AT THE DOGE’S PALACE
A date with great original music in St Mark’s Square: Paolo Conte will perform in the Doge’s Palace on 2 July. Conte is an Italian singer-songwriter, lyricist and lawyer....
MAGICAL NIGHT IN ST MARK’S WITH THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS
It was a beautiful evening yesterday in St Mark’s Square, where more than 3000 athletes and technicians paraded during the opening ceremony for the Special Olympics 2014....
A COMPETITION OF IDEAS IN THE ST MARK’S SQUARE SPACES OF THE FONDAZIONE BEVILACQUA LA MASA
A competition focused on art will be hosted in the St Mark’s Square spaces of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa; a competition of ideas for young artists organised by the...
EGYPTIAN AFTERNOONS IN ST MARK’S SQUARE
There will be an opportunity to find out about the mysterious and evocative history of Egypt throughout the month of May at the National Archaeological Museum of Venice,...
26 MAY 2014: THE OLYMPIC TORCH OF THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS IN ST MARK’S SQUARE
The Special Olympics is the most widespread programme in the world of sports activities for people with mental disabilities. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy, JFK’s...
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