Events/things to be remembered before visiting Venice!
Carnival – 30th January – 17th February – Shrove Tuesday – Martedì Grasso
March 1st – New Year according to the Venetian Calendar (m.v. = more veneto)
March 25th – Venice Birthday – AD 421
Easter – April 5th
Easter Monday – April 6th
April 12th – Su e Zo per i ponti (Up and Down the bridges) – a little marathon across Venice.
April 25th – St Mark – Patron Saint of Venice – Festa del Bocolo (rosebud) – According to Venetian tradition men buy a rosebud for their loved ones. In Italy Liberation Day (Festa della Liberazione)
May 1st – Labor Day
May 9th – November 22th – The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh – (preview May 6th, 7th, 8th) at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues, and in various locations around Venice.
May 17th – Festa della Sensa (Ascension Day) – Venice marriage to the sea.
May 24th – Vogalonga – A rowing regatta in the City of Venice against the wave action created by motor boats – round trip from Venice to Burano!
July 18th – La notte famosissima (Festa del Redentore) – The very famous night (Feast of the Redeemer) – a mobile pontoon connects the Giudecca Island (Redentore Church) with the opposite bank in Dorsoduro, celebrating the end of the plague in Venice (1576). A traditional popular festival with the unmissable midnight fireworks in the Venetian lagoon.
September 2nd – 12th – Venice Film Festival.
September 6th – Regata storica – Historical Regatta.
October 25th – Venice Marathon – running from Stra (riviera del Brenta) to Venice (via Garibaldi).
November 21st – Madonna della Salute (Our Virgin Mary of Health) – celebrating the end of the plague in Venice in 1631.
