The Vogalonga of Venice
The Vogalonga of Venice is the most important of Venetian rowing spring races!
The Vogalonga of Venice is the most important of Venetian rowing spring races. The fourth Sunday of May of the Organizing Committee in collaboration with the Municipality of Venice come back to Venice the excitement of hosting in its waters hundreds of diversified and colorful boats rowing. Each will have to follow a path of 30 km of that from island of Vignole to Punta della Dogana touch much of the historic centre of the city of Venice. The vogata not be competitive, his noble intention is to increase awareness about the problem wave. The event remiera from 26 years has thus become an integral part of the Venetian tradition more typical.
Thousand loaded vessels of three thousand participants are poured each year in our basin of San Marco. For attenderle the coup that gun in one of many bright morning of May from the beginning of the Vogalonga of Venice.
Among the most important events remiere Venetian, this has marked right away thanks to its craft, not competitive and financially autonomous. The objective of the test indicates the noble and riuscitissimo attempt to restore a form of craftsmanship that went gradually dying out between the traditions of the island: the manufacture and restoration of vintage boats.
Finally Venetian and have not attended the rifioritura of historical and picturesque ships rievocanti the splendour of the Serenissima Republic, thanks to an event created and sustained without any response of public money. Bandito the financing of every type of sponsors, the Vogalonga of Venice stands out among the other maritime events also for his commitment to civic awareness against the wave, rewarding oars, creativity and fun.
The adventurous subscribers encounter in a 30 kilometer path that will touch the most exciting and hidden corners of the city, lining the Isle of Vignole, Sant'Erasmo, San Francesco del Deserto, Burano, Murano and Mazzorbo and returning to the most notorious channel of Cannaregio and Grand Canal. Meta: Punta della Dogana in St. Mark's Basin.
Born in 1974 from a note Venetian family, Rosa Salva, the Vogalonga of Venice itself right away with great success as vogata not competitive on any form of boat rowing, attracting a large number if appreciation from local press, society remiere and citizens. They are precisely the press together all'Assessorato of Tourism for the Venice, with many bodies and the Organizing Committee to award medals, certificates of participation and numerous prizes drawn between the participants.
A success that of Vogalonga of Venice palpable from year to year with a gradual increase in its membership and with a genuine internationalizations of subscriptions. Tourists from all over the world are competing for the exhibition more bizarre, more picturesque or more of their unique craft; gaze of the viewer smiles to the passage of now subscribe elderly German canoes on a ten oars, "dragon boat" Chinese and "flakes" oxfordiane English!
Open Subscriptions to every person of every age ed'ogni nationality provided armada, oars, good talent and "buona lena!".
