Casa San Girolamo Venice: a week in Venice, rent of apartment Venice, holiday in Venice, Italy

2008-2009 Calendar
Fenice in 2007/2008 season includes a bill of 10 operas.
Simphonic Season includes 14 concerts.
Lyric Season is proposing 9 concerts.

From 6 June 2009, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana present the exhibition Mapping the Studio which brings together a selection of works from the collection of François Pinault and rebuilt the course of each, from conception to the inner world of the artist, up to the integration with the private collection.

June 7 to November 22, 2009.
Daniel Birnbaum will be Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility as curator of the 53rd International Art Exhibition. The event will run June 7th to November 22nd, 2009.

It falls on the third Sunday in July and is a very Venetians’ treasured festivity,
ending with a spectacular firework display in the evening. The Redentore feast-day had it's origin in the 1500 last quarter, when the plague killed more than a third of the city’s inhabitants. In 1576 was announced the vow to erect a church dedicated to the Redentore (Redeemer), in return for help in ending the plague. On July 13, 1577, the plague was declared definitively over and it was decided that the city’s liberation from the terrible disease should be celebrated on the third Sunday in July with a solemn Church ceremony and a popular feast. At sunset the well illuminated boats, decorated with boughs and coloured balloons, begin congregating in Saint Mark’s Basin and the Giudecca Canal. In the boats people eat traditional food, waiting for the firework display, which begins at 11.30pm and lasts until after midnight.

The historical regatta on Grand Canal.
A procession commemorates the welcome given to Caterina Cornaro, wife of the King of Cyprus, in 1489 after she renounced her throne in favour of Venice. It is a procession of 16^th century style boats, with the famous Bucintoro, the boat representing the Serenissima, at its head.
Then comes the competition: many different types of boats take part in the Regata Storica: the "gondolino", the "caorlina", the "mascareta", the "pupparin", and, of course, the gondola, the Venetian boat par excellence.

It runs September 2 to September 12 at Venezia Lido:
The 65th Venice International Film Festival will be from August 27 to September 6.

The 53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music will run in Venice 25th September to 3rd October 2009. The program includes 73 composers from around the world for 87 performances, 26 Italian premieres and 16 world premieres, alongside installations, meetings, workshops, and conferences.

"Out of the ordinary" is the amazing scenario that hosts the race. "Out of the ordinary" is the finish line located in Venice, a city for walkers only, where cars are banished, but also full of obstacles and limits.

The holiday is, like the Redentore, in memory of another bout of pestilence, which lasted for two years from 1630-31, and the subsequent vow by the Doge to obtain the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
Was erected a church called the Salute, consecrated in 1687.
On November 21, thousands of people cross the boats votive bridge and reach the majestic Salute Church to give thanks and ask the Virgin Mary to keep them in good health.

6th - 16th February 2010
"It will be a voyage of discovery in a fantastic world, made of music, theatre, games and magic. A whirling universe where people from every country can experience the jokes, the masks, and the make-up. Where you can play hide and seek, then reveal yourself and...amaze."

The roots of the Sensa Feast-day lie in the history of Venice.
The Doge of the Serenissima used this rite to demonstrate the Republic's dominion in the gulf. The doge and his entourage embarked on the Bucintoro. On reaching the mouth of San Nicolò port, the Doge threw a gold ring into the sea.
The symbolism of the mystic marriage to the sea is still evident and is certainly still valid today. The Mayor of Venice, civic dignitaries and religious and military representatives leave Saint Mark's Square and sail to the Port of S. Nicolò where the ritual ring throwing takes place.