EIGHTY KILOS OF BREAD THROWN ONTO THE GROUND IN ST MARK’S SQUARE: PROTEST OR ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE?
Eighty kilos of bread were thrown onto the ground in St Mark’s Square by unknown people. They were partly photographed with a mobile phone issued to the San Marco Guardians,...
LUIS VUITTON ADVERT FILMED IN ST MARK’S SQUARE ON THE NIGHT OF FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2013
As already noted in a previous article, an advert of about 60 seconds for the Luis Vuitton ‘L’invitation au voyage’ campaign was filmed in St Mark’s Square on Friday...
‘GIFTS FROM SHAH ABBAS THE GREAT TO THE SERENISSIMA’: IN SEPTEMBER AN INTERESTING NEW EXHIBITION AT THE DOGE’S PALACE
The Doge’s Palace will host the interesting exhibition ‘Gifts from Shah Abbas the Great to the Serenissima’ in the Sala delle Quattro Porte from 28 September 2013 to 12...
ST MARK’S BELL TOWER MADE SAFE
There is no longer any scaffolding and not even the canopy that protected tourists leaving the bell tower. Furthermore, in two days climber-builders made the north and south...
ST MARK’S BELL TOWER BLOCKED OFF
Just renovated and the building site cleared away, St Mark’s Bell Tower is once again the subject of discussion. Yesterday some pieces of masonry fell from the bell tower...
FIRST AID POST OPENS IN ST MARK’S SQUARE
After the greater security and information offered by the return of the ‘San Marco Guardians’, the latest news is the return to the Square of a first aid post for the...
DIFFICULTIES AGAIN CAUSED BY UNSEASONAL HIGH TIDES
Last night and in the next two days unseasonal high tides will once again flood the St Mark’s area and the Square itself; events that are now repeated with a certain...
FIRST DAYS OF WORK FOR THE ‘SAN MARCO GUARDIANS’
The first days of work for the ‘San Marco Guardians’ who have once again this year from 21 May begun keeping watch over St Mark’s Square and informing tourists on how to...
THE SECOND YEAR OF THE ‘SAN MARCO GUARDIANS’ PROJECT BEGINS
In a press conference at Ca’ Farsetti today the Comune di Venezia, the Associazione Piazza San Marco and Costa Crociere presented the project that will see the ‘San Marco...
ST MARK’S AREA BETWEEN REORDERING AND MEGA-ADVERTISING
The mayor of Venice Giorgio Orsoni and the councillor for commerce Carla Rey intend reordering the itinerant sales stands in the St Mark’s area. The news was reported in the...
THE CITY COUNCIL PASSES THE RESOLUTION: ALL CLEAR FOR THE SAN MARCO GUARDIANS
The Venice city council yesterday passed the resolution allowing it to work with the Associazione San Marco for a second year and authorising eight men and women to provide a...
EUROPE COMES TO ST MARK’S SQUARE FROM 5 TO 9 MAY
Europe takes centre stage in Venice from 5 to 9 May with ‘Rights and Responsibilities of European Citizenship’, a big event that will involve the entire St Mark’s area...
ST MARK’S BELL TOWER IS RETURNED TO THE CITY
St Mark’s bell tower has today been officially returned to the city after five years’ work carried out by Sacaim under the supervision of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova,...
NEW EXHIBITION AT THE CORRER MUSEUM
The Correr Museum is setting up nine new rooms for the ‘Wunderkammer’ exhibition in a completely refurbished part of the museum in the Procuratie Nuove. It will be open...
THE PAVING SLABS IN THE ST MARK’S AREA ARE IN TOTAL DISREPAIR
After the Gazzettino, the other local paper ‘La Nuova Venezia’ has now also written on the problem of the disrepair in the St Mark’s area. It did so with an article by...
THE HARLEM SHAKE TAKES OFF IN ST MARK’S
The gathering is timed for 4.30 pm on Saturday 30 March in the Square and news of it is being circulated on various social networks, but in particular the call has been made by a...
THE AEPE OFFERS TO MANAGE THE RUNDOWN PART OF THE FORMER GIARDINETTI REALI
Following the article on the decline of the Giardinetti Reali by the Gazzettino journalist Roberta Brunetti, the Associazione Pubblici Esercizi (Aepe), through its...
