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Delta Air Lines announced Wednesday it will be expanding its Italian network from Atlanta with the addition of summer seasonal service. The once-daily flights will be from Atlanta to both Milan and Venice and join the already planned summer journeys from New York City to Venice and Detroit to Rome. The airline is also adding a second daily nonstop...

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In 1727 Giandomenico Tiepolo was born, third son of Giambattista Tiepolo, the unrivaled painter of the Venetian Rococo who enchanted all the courts of Europe with his aerial style and very modern design. His mother was Cecilia Guardi, the sister of the Vedutist painters Francesco and Antonio. In short, Giandomenico was a double son of art, a concen...

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È proprio vero: l’Italia è il Paese più bello del mondo, e a vederlo dall’estero, specialmente se sei italiano, finisci per apprezzarlo ancora di più che in patria. È questa la vivida impressione che l’evento di giovedì sera, “Veneto, the Land of Venice”, organizzato da EM Dreams Factory e dalla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, in collaborazione con R...

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The gondola is an Italian icon, and tourists around the world dream of taking a trip on one of the traditional Venetian boats, courtesy of a gondolier dressed in a striped shirt and straw hat. For years, rowing was the only way to get around the lagoon city, but many don't realize that the technique used in Venice is unique. It may look as if gondo...

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Save Venice Inc., the American nonprofit organization, announces an historic restoration of Titian’s monumental Assumption of the Virgin on the high altar of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari on the 500th anniversary of the painting’s unveiling (May 19, 1518), thanks to major funding from Beatrice de Santo Domingo and the Jasmine Chari...

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IT IS 6pm, twilight, dusky and I am making my way through the narrow streets and alleyways of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Ahead of me is a codega, or guide, clad in the costume of the traditional Venetian, holding aloft a lantern that glints off her mask. In all the time that we are together, I never actually see her face. But th...

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Venice has installed temporary gates at the ends of two bridges to turn back tourists if their numbers become overwhelming. The Italian lagoon city put the measure in place for a four-day holiday weekend that ends on Labor Day, May 1. By early Saturday afternoon, municipal police officers monitoring the flow of arrivals judged the crowds manageable...

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A museum is opening in the Venetian hometown of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century adventurer and bon vivant, in hopes of educating visitors about more than just his notorious womanizing. The Giacomo Casanova Museum and Experience doesn't hide Casanova's libidinous side. In fact, the six-room museum includes a bedroom where a shadow installation ma...

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Thursday, April 19 at 6:30 pm. Co-presented with the Italian Cultural Center Minneapolis/St Paul. MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART - 2400 Third Avenue South - Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404. Presenter: Patricia Fortini Brown Thoughts of Venice conjure up a city surrounded by water, as depicted in Jacopo de Barbari’s woodcut map of 1500, one of Mia’s trea...

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Living on an island presents a number of challenges. The first priorities are food, shelter and a reliable source of drinking water. The earliest settlers of the Venetian saltwater lagoon, however,  only had two out of three as freshwater was in short supply. Their solution was ingenious. And it would give the city with freshwater for over 1300 yea...

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