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31 unusual facts about Venice


Achille Cattaneo

He began to work within the tradition of 19th-century urban painting, producing views of the Milanese canals and especially interiors of churches in Milan and Venice.

Algonac, Michigan

Many canals wind their way throughout the city, which has given Algonac its nickname of "The Venice of Michigan."

Aloisio Gardellini

A collection of papal regulations and congregational decrees was published in 1730 by John Baptist Pithonius, a Venetian priest, the title of his book being "Constitutiones pontificae et Romanorum Congregationum decisiones ad sacros Ritus spectantes".

Andrija Zmajević

His only published work, the song "Od pakla" ("Hell") saw the light of day in Venice in 1727.

Constance of Sicily, Dogaressa of Venice

Constance of Sicily, was a Sicilian Princess and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Pietro Ziani (r. 1205-1229).

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

Gallerie dell'Accademia

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.

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The Napoleonic administration had disbanded many institutions in Venice including some churches, convents and Scuole.

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The Scuola della Carità was the oldest of the six Scuole Grande and the building dates back to 1343, though the scuola was formed in 1260.

Giacopo Belgrado

After completing his philosophical studies he taught letters for several years at Venice.

Giovanni Padovani

He published a number of esteemed treatises on various astronomical and mathematical subjects, the most well-known of which was a treatise on the sundial called Opus de compositione et usu multiformium horologiorum solarium, pro diversis mundi regionibus, idq(ue) ubique locorum tam in superficie plana horizontali quam murali quoruscumqu(ue) exposita sit, pertractans (Venice, 1570).

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini

In 1813 the university offered him the chair of astronomy, a position in which he was confirmed by the Emperor Francis I in 1818 after the Venetian territory had become part of Austria.

Głogówko, Greater Poland Voivodeship

The basilica of Holy Mountain monastery in Głogówko was modelled after the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute in Venice and constructed by polonized Italians Jerzy Catenazzi, Jan Catenazzi and Pompeo Ferrari between 1675-1728 according to original design by Baldassarre Longhena.

House of Gučetić

A branch of the family settled in Venice in the 17th century, where they changed their name from Gučetić to "Gozzi".

Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof

The station is important for commuter traffic to and from the Tyrolean provincial capital, and in providing a hub function for east-west traffic ((Budapest) – Vienna – Salzburg – Wörgl – Innsbruck (Zürich) / Bregenz) and north-south traffic (Munich – Wörgl – Innsbruck – Bolzano – Verona – (Milan / Venice / Rome )).

Istrian stone

Istrian stone, pietra d'Istria, the characteristic group of building stones in the architecture of Venice and Dalmatia, is a dense type of impermeable limestones that was quarried in Istria, between Portorož and Pula.

La Salle Expeditions

On April 9, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, near modern Venice, Louisiana, La Salle buried an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory for France.

Lorenzo Marcello

Lorenzo Marcello (Venice, 1603 – Dardanelles, 26 June 1656) was a Venetian admiral.

Malipiero

Malipiero is a Venetian surname of Bohemian origin, also documented as Mastropiero or Maripiero.

Matteo Bassi

Matteo Serafini (Matteo da Bascio) (b. in 1495, at Molino di Bascio, Diocese of Montefeltro, in the Duchy of Urbino; d. at Venice in 1552) was the co-founder and first Superior-General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, the principal branch of the Franciscans issued from the Reform of the Observance.

Music of Crete

Following the Crusades, however, the Franks, Venetians and Genoese dominated the island and introduced new instruments and styles of music.

Palekastro

This hill gave Palekastro its name in the Middle Ages when the region was dominated by the sovereign power of Venice.

Poeticon astronomicon

The Poeticon astronomicon was not formally published until 1482, by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, Italy.

Salah Taher

Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art fairs for his work in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah.

Teresa Belloc-Giorgi

She sang the title role in the revival of Simon Mayr's Medea in Corinto in 1823, and Isabella in the first performance of L’inganno felice in Venice in 1812.

The Sandman: Endless Nights

It is split between two views: the lives of a group on an island off the coast of Venice protected by magic from Death versus the memories and thoughts of a young American (the conclusion suggests he is a special forces soldier) who has never forgotten his childhood encounter with her.

Theodore of Amasea

The new church of St Mark was built between the old chapel of St Theodore and the Ducal Palace.

Valdrada of Sicily

Valdrada of Sicily, was a Sicilian Princess and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Jacopo Tiepolo (r. 1229-1249).

Veduta

By the mid-18th century, Venice became renowned as the centre of the vedutisti.

Venice/Venice

Venice/Venice is an American film starring Henry Jaglom, Nelly Alard, Melissa Leo, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, John Landis and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.

Wenecja

Its picturesque location among three lakes (Biskupinskie, Weneckie, Skrzynka) resulted in its name alluding to the location of Italian Venice.


A Place for Lovers

It stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni).

Alfred Atmore Pope

They bought majolica and frames in Venice, and a Roman bust from an Italian dealer; Whistler and Charles Méryon prints, a boulle inkstand, mahogany liquor case, Persian rugs and a William Morris tapestry based on Walter Crane's The Goose Girl in London; and in Paris a Venetian mirror, Antoine-Louis Barye bronzes, Japanese prints and three Monets from leading art dealers Boussoud, Valadon.

Angelo Bendinelli

Later he performed in theaters in many Italian cities, like Bologna, Mantua and Venice, and performed important works such as Rigoletto, La sonnambula, L'amico Fritz, Iris, and Manon.

Angie Watts

The climax was a trip to Venice when Angie, convinced that Den had finished with his mistress, was taken there for a second-honeymoon, returning to London on the Orient Express.

Antonio Vallisneri

He studied at Bologna, Venice, Padua and Parma and held the chairs of Practical Medicine first and Theoretical Medicine later at the University of Padua between 1700 and his death.

Bahman Maghsoudlou

The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.

Beverle Graves Myers

Her major work is the Tito Amato mystery series set in 18th-century Venice, published by Poisoned Pen Press.

Bullarium

Of these the most valuable is probably that of Guerra "Pontificarium Constitutionem in Bullario Magno contentarum Epitome" (4 vols., Venice, 1772), which possesses a very complete and useful index.

Ca' Vendramin Calergi

In 1581, the Loredan family suffered financial difficulties and sold it for 50,000 ducats to Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who had deep affection for Venice.

Caffè Lavena

But the person who gave lustre to Caffé Lavena, patronizing it from his first coming to Venice and becoming an habitual customer, was the composer Richard Wagner.

Cinzia Sasso

After living together for twenty years, Sasso married the lawyer and politician Giuliano Pisapia 9 April 2011, with a civil wedding in the Palazzo Cavalli in Venice.

Dangerous Beauty

Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, the film is about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

David Conforte

The original manuscript was brought from Egypt by R. David Ashkenazi of Jerusalem, who, to judge from a note in his preface, gave it the title Ḳore ha-Dorot, and had it printed in Venice in 1746, without mentioning the name of the author.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Dušan Žanko

During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.

Fabio Campana

(Souvenirs, Thoughts, Echoes, Sighs, Memories), with each one devoted to a different place which had a personal significance in Campana's life, including Naples, Venice, Rome, Paris, Bagni di Lucca, and Lake Como.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Granville also followed Dryden in adapting Shakespeare; The Jew of Venice (1701) was a successful updating of The Merchant of Venice.

Giacomo Monico

During his tenure as head of the diocese of Venice he was a strong supporter of the rule of the house of Habsburg, and after the defeat of the Republic of San Marco he presided over a solemn Te Deum in the Basilica of San Marco.

Gianni De Fraja

He was born in Bologna, where he spent the first five years of his life, before moving to Bassano del Grappa and then on to Mestre, near Venice, where he lived until he was eighteen.

Giuseppe Agujari

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he later enrolled at the Municipal Technical School of Trieste, where his brother Tito Agujari was his tutor.

Gracia Mendes Nasi

Once in Antwerp, Dona Gracia and her staff gave them instructions and the money to travel by cart and foot over the Alps to the great port city of Venice, where arrangements were made to transport them by ship to the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey in the East.

Ignazio Gardella

In the same years he was a leader of important cultural events, like CIAM (in '52 he founded, with others, the summer session in Venice; in '59 he participated in CIAM X in Otterlo in Holland), or the first INU conferences (starting in 1949).

Lodewijk Toeput

According to Karel van Mander, who listed him as one of two painters from Northern Europe whom he met in Venice, he was a good poet (rederijker) as well as a painter; van Mander thought he came from Mechelen.

Matt Perrins

In 2009, Perrins won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Venice, collecting €851,660 in the process against a field of 438 contestants that included Johnny Lodden, Dario Minieri, and Vanessa Rousso.

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

Michel Amelot de Gournay

In 1682 he was appointed ambassador to Venice, in which post he took with him as secretary his tutor, the connoisseur Roger de Piles.

Muğla Province

The province also became a significant naval power, trading with the Aegean Islands, Crete and as far as Venice and Egypt.

Nicolae Dărăscu

He traveled extensively and lived in the south of France (Toulon and Saint-Tropez, 1908), to Venice (1909), in Romania (to Vlaici, Olt County, 1913, and in Southern Dobruja - Balchik, 1919).

Pietro Alcionio

After having studied Greek in Venice under Marcus Musurus of Candia, he was employed for some time as a proofreader by the printer Aldus Manutius.

Port of Split

After the fall of Venice, Split was briefly ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy and Austrian Empire between 1797 and 1806, and the First French Empire until 1813 when Austrian rule was restored.

Rogier van der Heide

Van der Heide joined the Arup practice in 2004, and subsequently worked on projects including Star Place in Taiwan and Galleria West in South Korea, both in collaboration with Ben van Berkel and the 2004 Architecture Biennale show in Venice in collaboration with Hani Rashid of Asymptote.

Sergio Stevanato

He started to dedicate himself to the glass industry when he was young, spending his summer time in the company founded by his father in 1949 in Venice (moved subsequently to Piombino Dese-Italy).

Stella Greenall

Greenhall presented their collection of 870 Venetian coins and 23 medals to the British Museum, a gift which was celebrated with the exhibition 'Venice Preserv'd' which ran from 9 November 1993 to 13 February 1994.

Tan Kheng Hua

Drama: Aquafire Productions: Cages directed by Graham Streeter (lead, Pusan Film Festival 2006, Prague Film Festival 2006, Bangladesh Film Festival 2007, distributed by Golden Village in Singapore and Hallmark for Asia Pacific Region), Final Cut (lead, Singapore Int'l Film Festival 1993, Asia Pacific Film & Video Festival in LA 1993, broadcast over HBO and Arts Central Singapore); Zhao Wei Films: Mee Pok Man, 12 Stories (screened at film festivals in Singapore, Moscow, England and Venice, 1994)

Teatro Malibran

It became the biggest, most luxurious and extravagant stage in Venice, known for its sumptuous productions and high quality singers such as Margherita Durastanti, prima donna between 1709 and 1712.

Teri Polo

In 2006, while on the set of a video, Polo met drummer Jamie Wollam (of the bands Avion, Venice and recently Drake Bell).

The Empire of Glass

The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki travel to what seems to be Venice in 1609, where they meet a host of historical characters including Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare.

The Large Etymological Dictionary

Described as one of the most important Byzantine Dictionaries, it was released by Nikolaos Vlastos, owner of the first Greek press in Venice.

The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Foscolo's work was also inspired by the political events that occurred in Northern Italy during the Napoleonic period, when the Treaty of Campoformio forced Foscolo to go into exile from Venice to Milan.

The Most Serene Republic

The band takes its name from the sobriquet of Venice under the Doges, which was regarded as "The Most Serene Republic of Venice".

Vittoria Accoramboni

On the death of Pope Gregory XIII, Cardinal Montalto, her first husband's uncle, was elected in his place as Sixtus V (1585); he vowed vengeance on the duke of Bracciano and Vittoria, who, warned in time, fled first to Venice and thence to Salò in Venetian territory.

William Bedell

In 1607 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton, then English ambassador at Venice, where he remained for four years, acquiring a great reputation as a scholar, theologian, printer, and Missionary to the faithfull leaving under Roman Catholic tyranny of the Inquisition.

William Charles John Pitcher

He also designed costumes for Jane Annie at the Savoy (1893) and for the Olympia, London spectacles Nero (1889) and Venice (1891).

WLTQ

WLTQ-FM, a radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to Venice, Florida, United States

Zsuzsa Szikra

Art trip to Paris (Louvre and Centre Georges Pompidou) and Rome (Vatican Museums, Rafaello, Michelangelo) And Florence (Uffizi museum), Venice (Guggenheim Museum Venice, Georgione’s La Tempesta), 1977