Showing posts with label Santa Lucia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa Lucia. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2014

Once in your life, you must gone to Venice and reach St. Mark's square by the vaporetto.

















Arrive to Venice by train , enjoying these unique views in the world; Getting off at Santa Lucia's station and take the vaporetto to St. Mark's along the Canal Grande: our trip has begun. Only two more words: enjoy it!

Friday, February 14, 2014

Venice, the Queen of the Carnival, a small city that knows how to celebrate great events

















Venice starts the year with the Regata delle Befane (Race of witches); in February the great passion of Carnival begins: twelve days of folly all over the city. Once in a life you have to live it!. On 25th April, St. Mark's day, the patron saint of the city, and for the occasion men usually give a rosebud ("bòcolo") to their loved one; the second Sunday of May, the declaration of love is made to the city: it’s the feast of the "Sensa" (the Ascension), a procession of boats, Venice renews its rite of marriage to the sea, a tradition which goes back to 998.