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italyheaven
@italyheaven.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Venice news: the 2025 edition of my Venice guidebook is LIVE. Hugely detailed, months in the updating, the same favourite walks and sights, but with a few super additions, updated prices, layouts etc. Share my off-the-beaten-track Venice! amzn.eu/d/4IhENAC
Spectacular sunset in Venice
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Spectacular sunset in Venice
In all these years I've never attended one of the defining tourist attractions of Venice: a performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. They pack out church venues several times a week, play the same music over & over for ever... Yesterday I paid up & went along - & enjoyed it
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
In all these years I've never attended one of the defining tourist attractions of Venice: a performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. They pack out church venues several times a week, play the same music over & over for ever... Yesterday I paid up & went along - & enjoyed it
Lunch with canal views at my favourite restaurant in Venice, La Zucca. Amazing seasonal flavours in the lasagne with Chioggia radicchio, mushrooms and fontina cheese
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Lunch with canal views at my favourite restaurant in Venice, La Zucca. Amazing seasonal flavours in the lasagne with Chioggia radicchio, mushrooms and fontina cheese
A lovely & lucky Venice experience this morning: a free (optional donations) concert I'd seen advertised on a church door. The trio of musicians of the Ensemble Serenissimi filled the frescoed space of Ognissanti with beautiful strings. Small audience, but big applause.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A lovely & lucky Venice experience this morning: a free (optional donations) concert I'd seen advertised on a church door. The trio of musicians of the Ensemble Serenissimi filled the frescoed space of Ognissanti with beautiful strings. Small audience, but big applause.
Yesterday I visited the little museum of the Pietà church & institution, where parents left babies to be cared for. Heartrending little tokens & messages left by mothers. The Pietà was famous for its female musicians & for music director Antonio Vivaldi
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Yesterday I visited the little museum of the Pietà church & institution, where parents left babies to be cared for. Heartrending little tokens & messages left by mothers. The Pietà was famous for its female musicians & for music director Antonio Vivaldi
Some highlights of Neoclassical Taste, the current exhibition at Ca'Rezzonico, Venice, of works from the album Leopoldo Cicognara compiled for his wife. A great palace-museum which has very interesting exhibitions - I get good value from my MUVE museum card here
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Some highlights of Neoclassical Taste, the current exhibition at Ca'Rezzonico, Venice, of works from the album Leopoldo Cicognara compiled for his wife. A great palace-museum which has very interesting exhibitions - I get good value from my MUVE museum card here
Night reflections, Venice this evening. The rain stopped and it's a still night filled with atmosphere.
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Night reflections, Venice this evening. The rain stopped and it's a still night filled with atmosphere.
Due to regional elections (bizarre but true) the ferry services in Venice have been slashed for the last 3 days. Today people were left stranded on the Giudecca as the boat was too full - many complaints & arguments & one man said "Evviva l'Italia", with an eyeroll. Some laughter.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Due to regional elections (bizarre but true) the ferry services in Venice have been slashed for the last 3 days. Today people were left stranded on the Giudecca as the boat was too full - many complaints & arguments & one man said "Evviva l'Italia", with an eyeroll. Some laughter.
It's grey and drizzly in Venice today, so here's a photo from yesterday afternoon
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It's grey and drizzly in Venice today, so here's a photo from yesterday afternoon
Carlo Goldoni's La Vedova Scaltra at Teatro Toniolo, Mestre. Worth the journey to the mainland. A widow looking for love chooses between 4 national caricatures. Milord Runebif is the English candidate: a rich man of few words. The jealous Italian wins though. Good fun & historically fascinating
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Carlo Goldoni's La Vedova Scaltra at Teatro Toniolo, Mestre. Worth the journey to the mainland. A widow looking for love chooses between 4 national caricatures. Milord Runebif is the English candidate: a rich man of few words. The jealous Italian wins though. Good fun & historically fascinating
Sunday church bells across the water. The view of Venice from the Giudecca today.
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sunday church bells across the water. The view of Venice from the Giudecca today.
Sunny Venice Sunday
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Sunny Venice Sunday
Cosy trees in Dorsoduro, Venice, by the Yarnbombing Giudecca group to celebrate National Trees Day
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Cosy trees in Dorsoduro, Venice, by the Yarnbombing Giudecca group to celebrate National Trees Day
I popped into Palazzo Fortuny for some peace and beauty after having to fight through horrible ill-mannered crowds in the San Marco area (I was only there to buy socks). Venice at its worse followed by Venice at its best
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I popped into Palazzo Fortuny for some peace and beauty after having to fight through horrible ill-mannered crowds in the San Marco area (I was only there to buy socks). Venice at its worse followed by Venice at its best
Casanova and Venice exhibition at Palazzo Cini. Not really about Casanova but about artistic Venice at the time, his milieu, the theatre and a world of 'otherness'. Works by artists including Canaletto & fascinating caricatures by Anton Maria Zanetti palazzocini.it
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Casanova and Venice exhibition at Palazzo Cini. Not really about Casanova but about artistic Venice at the time, his milieu, the theatre and a world of 'otherness'. Works by artists including Canaletto & fascinating caricatures by Anton Maria Zanetti palazzocini.it
Today's one of the most important days of the year in Venice: the Festa della Salute, a thanksgiving for deliverance from plague. Includes candles & mass but also balloons and sweet treats
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today's one of the most important days of the year in Venice: the Festa della Salute, a thanksgiving for deliverance from plague. Includes candles & mass but also balloons and sweet treats
At the Teatro Goldoni in Venice last night for a concert by My Venice Orchestra: all women musicans, awareness-raising & fundraising for Venice council's campaign to prevent violence against women. A crowd-pleasing, varied programme from Salieri to Nino Rota.
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
At the Teatro Goldoni in Venice last night for a concert by My Venice Orchestra: all women musicans, awareness-raising & fundraising for Venice council's campaign to prevent violence against women. A crowd-pleasing, varied programme from Salieri to Nino Rota.
Venice tonight. The view down the Grand Canal from the Accademia towards the temporary Salute bridge
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Venice tonight. The view down the Grand Canal from the Accademia towards the temporary Salute bridge
The submarine Enrico Dandolo, named for Venice's blind warrior-doge, which you can tour as part of the Museo Storico Navale in Venice (at added cost, by booking). The tour passes through the military zone at the Arsenale, which is an added attraction
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The submarine Enrico Dandolo, named for Venice's blind warrior-doge, which you can tour as part of the Museo Storico Navale in Venice (at added cost, by booking). The tour passes through the military zone at the Arsenale, which is an added attraction
Lunchtime stop at the Osteria Alla Rampa: potato & mushroom tortino, polpetta di rapa, crostino w gorgonzola and asparagus, plus a little €1.50 glass of wine. Off to tour a submarine next. #Venice
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Lunchtime stop at the Osteria Alla Rampa: potato & mushroom tortino, polpetta di rapa, crostino w gorgonzola and asparagus, plus a little €1.50 glass of wine. Off to tour a submarine next. #Venice
Early morning shopping trip to the market garden stall at the women's prison in Venice: organic produce & zero food miles. Nearby a fisherman was sorting little crabs on the canalside, watched by a whote egret. I came home with fresh leafy greens, handcream & a myrrh-scented soap
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Early morning shopping trip to the market garden stall at the women's prison in Venice: organic produce & zero food miles. Nearby a fisherman was sorting little crabs on the canalside, watched by a whote egret. I came home with fresh leafy greens, handcream & a myrrh-scented soap
Burano was gorgeous in the sunshine & Torcello atmospheric. But my highlight of the day was a long chat with a Burano resident who told me about her long life here & the island community. Learning languages and forging human connections can't be beaten ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Burano was gorgeous in the sunshine & Torcello atmospheric. But my highlight of the day was a long chat with a Burano resident who told me about her long life here & the island community. Learning languages and forging human connections can't be beaten ❤️
Venice tomorrow: €5 tickets for a classical concert at Teatro Goldoni tomorrow - part of Novembre Donna; I don't know what it will be like www.teatrostabileveneto.it/spettacolo/1.... And a free historic music concert at the library in the old Scuola dei Calegheri at San Toma' at 5pm.
BEYOND SILENCE
La MY VENICE ORCHESTRA è l' Ensemble femminile dell'Orchestra Sinfonica del Veneto nato per testimoniare l'eccellenza dell'espressione artistica femminile qui protagonista degli eventi di Novembre Do...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Venice tomorrow: €5 tickets for a classical concert at Teatro Goldoni tomorrow - part of Novembre Donna; I don't know what it will be like www.teatrostabileveneto.it/spettacolo/1.... And a free historic music concert at the library in the old Scuola dei Calegheri at San Toma' at 5pm.