Jo's VEnicewalkingtour

04/11/2018

Have you already shared your Instagram posts on Yooying? I have no idea who transfered my Instagram page on Yooying for the first time. The great advantage of this website is the visibility on Google, a disadvantage - the rights for photos one publishes can't be protected as long as anyone can download them easily, without giving credits to their authors.

Resplendent sunset in Venice today, the tides were much lower, a lot of work done and yet to be done...

12/06/2018

Brilliant the idea of
GREETINGS FROM VENICE
by Elisabetta Di Maggio
an exhibition curated by Chiara Bertola
at the Event Pavilion of
T Fondaco dei Tedeschi:
100.000 vintage postage stamps that traveled the world in a floor mosaic decoration tribute
to the mosaics of Basilica San Marco.

02/06/2018

Today is the Festa della Repubblica.
I would say that Italy celebrates more achievements, its unification being among the most important, first as a Monarchy under the rule of ther Royal Casa of Savoia (1866 is generally given as the birth date of Italy, but the process took more years) and, starting 1947-1948, as the Repubblica Italiana. Among the many gifts Venice has been continously bringing to Italy is the Biennale di Venezia. Not only a melting pot of creative ideas, the Mostre la Biennale di Venezia organize every year from May to November are building long lasting professional relationships. Don't miss the opportunity to visit the 16th International Mostra of Architecture of the Biennale di Venezia, on show until the end of November 2018.

26/05/2018

Il cocktail Venezia Essenza The Merchant of Venice ispirato all’omonima fragranza è valso a Gennaro Florio la vittoria della categoria più prestigiosa del concorso regionale veneto per barman, tenutosi lo scorso marzo.

20/05/2018

In less than two hours will start in Venice the 44th edition of VOGALONGA, a (mainly) non-competitive sportive event where any boat without engines can be registered and participate. In the photographs: the poster of this year edition (photograph by: Riccardo Roiter Rigoni), a photograph taken during VOGALONGA a couple of years ago in the Basin of San Marco, and a photograph from the first official VOGALONGA back in 1975. The one among friends in 1974 gave the sparkling idea to organized an international event every year.
The rights for the photos belong to their authors or/and commissioners.

www.vogalonga.com
www.comune.venezia.it

07/05/2018

Summertime. Wonderful. At noon, Piazza San Marco could get very crowded though. Why not hop on the JW Marriott free shuttle and go to have a light lunch and fresh drinks at Sagra, the roof terrace restaurant and bar of JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa on Isola delle Rose? This is what I did last WeekEnd during the Food and Wine Festival organized by JW Marriott. You can spend a pleasant afternoon, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, enjoying the awesome aerial views as far as Piazza San Marco and San Servolo Island.
www.jwvenice.com www.jwvenicefoodandwine.com
www.martinavidal.com

02/05/2018

Leonardo, con i suoi poliedri, ci mostra come la perfezione della geometria coincida con la bellezza.
Costruisci questi straordinari solidi nel nostro museo!

29/04/2018

Kenneth Frampton architect historian critic teacher and scholar is the winner of the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at the XVI edition of the international

23/04/2018

"I wanted to sculpt what it is considered the hardest part of the human body.
The hand holds so much power -
the power to love, to hate, to create,
to destroy."
Lorenzo Quinn
His exhibition SUPPORT, inaugurated in May 2017 at Ca' Sagredo Hotel on the occasion of the 57th International Art Biennial organised by the Biennale di Venezia, was prolonged several times after the Biennale ended in November the same year. You still have the time to see the exhibition until April 30th 2018.
Here are some pics of the sculpted hands coming out of Canal Grande to symbolically sustain Hotel Ca' Sagredo, photographs taken by or for Guests I accompanied in Venice in the past months. One Guest remarked the Artist "looks very much like the actor Anthony Quinn." Of course he does: Lorenzo Quinn (in the second pic) is the son of the actor famous for his parts in La Strada, Zorba (the Greek), Lawrence of Arabia.
www.casagredohotel.com
www.halcyongallery.com
www.lorenzoquinn.com
www.supportatvenice.com
www.labiennale.org

20/04/2018