Feast of Redeemer in Venice
Dinner in the boat and fireworks!
The Feast of the Redeemer (Redentore) in Venice soul for century's Venetian tradition and pride. First one, fireworks in the night and follow the morning, the official religious celebrations.
Thus the third weekend of July Venice is invaded by thousands of tourists determined not to lose one of the most spectacular events citizens.
Organized and financed by the City of Venice, fireworks are launched at 23:30 from a variety of platforms located on the Giudecca Canal and are admired from Piazza San Marco and its basin, but also by the long shore of the Grand Canal and, just to the most fortunate, from the many towers located nearby.
The first religious celebrations of the Feast of the Redentore of Venice are already present in the organizational stage Saturday: 10:00 to the "Holy Mass Chapter of the Cathedral of the nine congregations and clergy" also continues in the evening with the function of 19:30 and 00:30 at the end of the fireworks display. The solemn votive Mass presided over by Patriarch of Venice is followed by a long procession and forms in eight sacred celebrations of Sunday. Place the ceremony is precisely the Church of the Redeemer in the centre of the Giudecca, reached quickly during the celebrations through the establishment of a provisional bridge on boats. Built in 1577 to designs by the architect Andrea Palladio, the Church of the Redeemer is the result of a vow made by the Venetians aimed at freeing the city from the plague that decimated in the three years 1575-1577 the population with over fifty thousand victims.
It is not difficult to participate in the Festa of Redentore in Venice, you can do you too!
Prepare a meal made of rice cold, "bovoeti", particularly flavoured sardines, beans dipped in onion and wine, concluding with a tasty watermelon cut into slices. Now get a boat and design with frasche of varying length, many colourful balloons and some illuminations customized at will. At this point the meal consumed on board without privarvi pleasure of good music, dances, songs and big laughs. After saziante bouffe try to raise your head and be prepared to assist the most exciting fireworks display you've ever seen, ready to colour for about an hour the whole Venetian landscape around you.
Too good to be true? Yet that is precisely what might succedervi really decide whether to spend the third weekend of July in Venice, because festeggereste with its inhabitants the arrival Sunday of the Redeemer. Recurrence sacred and strongly felt by the Venetians is the result of a vow made by the city as far back as 1576: Venice would have built a church dedicated to the Redeemer so that it could save by the plague that in years that had already decimated one third of its inhabitants. Faithful to promise date, from where the plague was eradicated Venetians make honour the basilica with a night of vigil, the "famous night", which precedes a day of solemn masses, religious processions and large pilgrimages to the famous Church.
Equipped temporarily in order to allow the influx direct the basilica, a bridge of boats on the Giudecca Canal to the unique symptom is rooting that the city shows against local tradition and religion, because this faithfully every year since 1577.
Fun, tradition, entertainment, history, good food. Get ready for a weekend dream. And festivities concluded so do not be surprised to want to extend your stay: the multicoloured and scoppiettante Venice at night there rapirà as to abandon the desire to go home!
