Pietra da scogliera: la Pietra d’Istria era ideale per costruire una città fondata sull’acqua, perché nulla come questo materiale sa resistere alla salinità dell’acqua di mare. Il Ponte di Rialto, completato nel 1591, e quasi tutti i monumenti e i palazzi veneziani, sono costruiti in questa pietra bianca che resiste da secoli a intemperie e moto ondoso.

Siamo nella fase più delicata dell’ambizioso progetto di restauro del ponte di Rialto, che inizia con l’intervento di consolidamento, restauro e ripristino della porzione più degradata del ponte, la balaustra di fronte a Palazzo Camerlenghi, voluto da Confartigianato Venezia e dal Consorzio dei Tajapiera Restauratori Veneziani, per il Comune di Venezia e in accordo con la Soprintendenza ai Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia.

Primo tassello del grande progetto del restauro totale di uno dei simboli della città, cantiere epocale perché per la prima volta si mette mano a parti strutturali del Ponte dalla sua apertura nel 1591, questo restauro apre il capitolo della conoscenza approfondita di un gioiello di tecnica costruttiva, un ponte di pietra posto in volta di canale, attraversato da 30 milioni di persone ogni anno, senza problemi strutturali da più di 400 anni.

In questo momento è in corso la fase dello smontaggio delle balaustre del Ponte, reso possibile da una “macchina”, ispirata alle macchine in legno cinquecentesche, che permette di spostare la balaustra senza alterarne l’assetto statico, conservando cioè le spinte verticali e orizzontali che mantengono l’equilibrio del Ponte di Rialto con le rive e le costruzioni annesse.

Tra ottobre e novembre 2011 il cantiere si apre alla popolazione, agli studenti e ai turisti per raccontare la parte più affascinante della storia della città.

La storia del Ponte e della città di Venezia, i materiali usati per l’edilizia della Serenissima, le tecniche tradizionali e quelle innovative che verranno utilizzate, la storia della corporazione dei Maestri Tajapiera, custodi delle antiche tecniche artigiane che hanno costruito nei secoli tutti i monumenti e i palazzi della città.

La Scuola dei Tajapiera è tra le più antiche di Venezia. La professione di scalpellino, scultore e architetto, erano tra le più diffuse in città. Oggi a Venezia i maestri in grado di lavorare il marmo e la Pietra d’Istria come un tempo, con strumenti e tecniche rimasti inalterati nei secoli, sono rimasti in 9, riuniti in Consorzio da alcuni anni con l’obiettivo di salvaguardare e tramandare un mestiere artigiano che è parte fondante della storia della città.

Confartigianato Venezia e Consorzio dei Tajapiera Restauratori Veneziani
Visita guidata
Giovedì 13 ottobre 2011, ore 14:30
Le visite saranno precedute da una conferenza preparatoria sulla storia del Ponte di Rialto e sugli interventi di restauro effettuati nel corso dei secoli.

ore 14:30
Sala Riunioni Confartigianato Venezia
San Lio, 5653/4 (vicino al Ponte delle Paste)

Il Ponte di Rialto: una lunga storia costruttiva
Dr. Emanuela Zucchetta, Storica dell’arte, Soprintendenza BB.AA.PP. di Venezia e Laguna

Riconoscere il degrado e le sue cause; progettare per intervenire
Giovanni Giusto, Restauratore – Presidente Consorzio Tajapiera Restauratori Veneziani

a seguire visita guidata
Ponte di Rialto, Lato Camerlenghi
Il restauro delle balaustre del Ponte di Rialto

La conclusione e’ prevista indicativamente per le 17.

Altre visite sono in programma per ottobre e novembre 2011.
La partecipazione è gratuita. Info e prenotazioni:

+39 041 5299270
Roberta Dal Corso
ufficio.categorie@artigianivenezia.it
www.artigianivenezia.it

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Fotografie, vivande, ghiaccio, ordine, gli ultimi quadri da appendere e le spezie per l’evento di domani:

Venerdì 16 luglio Lago Design apre l’Appartamento Lago a Venezia. Una Living Showroom abitata da tre veneziani.

L’Appartamento Lago è in Campo Bella Vienna 205, a Venezia

Opening venerdi’ 16 luglio ore 19

Architetti, giovani, veneziani. Martina, Gian Maria e Alberto, i nuovi tenant del progetto Appartamento Lago, da domani mostreranno il loro modo di abitare, vivere, lavorare contemporaneo, in una casa che durante il restauro ha svelato molto di sè, e con il design di Lago è diventata uno spazio accogliente, sociale o meditativo, sopra il campo più frequentato di Venezia ma ricca di angoli intimi, di scorci, di prospettive inattese.

Una showroom e una vera casa aperta alla città: con eventi, feste, cene e iniziative diverse la casa sarà aperta per raccontare un nuovo modo di vivere il design, l’abitare, lo stare insieme.

E come per le precedenti esperienze, in cucina ci sara’ un cuoco speciale:

Keivan Chavoshbaran, urbanista veneziano dal percorso artistico variegato, sara’ l’Urban Food Designer dell’opening di domani.

Venezia è la prima città che ha raccolto la sfida:

tre giovani veneziani sono sono i primi Tenant del progetto Appartamento Lago, nato al Salone del Mobile di Milano: a living showroom, un metodo innovativo per fare marketing, ma anche un modo contemporaneo di abitare.

Lago, industria padovana di arredamento e design, partecipa al Salone del Mobile di Milano, la kermesse internazionale di design, con sperimentazioni che hanno sempre incontrato successo e adesioni: dal 2009 la showroom è una casa arredata completamente con mobili Lago, abitata dallo staff dell’azienda, che accoglie i visitatori come degli ospiti: a tavola.

Presentazioni, degustazioni, spettacoli, lezioni universitarie, trasmissioni tv, e cuochi speciali per far trovare a tavola il senso dei nuovi modi di vivere e i temi delle nuove forme di comunicazione: condivisione, interazione, esperienza raccontata, accoglienza.

L’ultima innovazione di Lago è che ci si può proporre per diventare un Tenant.

Primi tra tutti, i tre giovani veneziani hanno iniziato la collaborazione con Lago, e con ironia e gusto hanno reso una tipica casa veneziana uno spazio aperto e dinamico: ecco le prime foto dell’Appartamento Lago a Venezia.

Appartamento Lago – a place for re-designing Life

Rialto, Venezia

Campo Bella Vienna 205

Opening venerdi’ 16 luglio ore 19

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Pubblichiamo il racconto di un episodio della storia di Rialto che Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini, storica e presidente dell’associazione Venezia Civiltà Anfibia, ha scritto per Rialto Cuore della Città su Baiamonte Tiepolo, nobile veneziano che nel 1310 organizzò il tentativo di rovesciare il potere Dogale.

Il governo della città, in quel momento, era in mano alle famiglie più aristocratiche. Le famiglie della classe media non potevano ascendere al Maggior Consiglio e  Leggi l’articolo

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Il fatto

Baiamonte Tiepolo nel 1310 fu il principale protagonista di un fallito tentativo di colpo di stato ordito con l’aiuto della famiglia Querini e di Badoero Badoer. La notte fra il 14 e il 15 giugno, mentre infuriava un tremendo temporale, i rivoltosi si diressero in gran numero verso il Palazzo Ducale per uccidere il doge Pietro Gradenigo.La reazione delle guardie ducali avvisate in tempo represse la squadra di Marco Querini, ma non avrebbe avuto la meglio sulla guarnigione di Baiamonte se non fosse accaduto un fatto imprevisto e imprevedibile: in prossimità di Piazza San Marco, a pochi metri da dove ora si trova la Torre dell’Orologio, una vecchia si sporse dal balcone per vedere chi stesse facendo tutto quel frastuono e fece cadere il mortaio posato sul davanzale che andò a colpire proprio la testa del portabandiera dei rivoltosi, che morì all’istante. La cosa creò scompiglio e indecisione tra gli insorti che si diedero alla fuga.

La congiura che avrebbe potuto cambiare la storia della Repubblica di Venezia venne sventata per un colpo di fortuna cha garantì l’indipendenza della Serenissima. Uno dei congiurati, Badoero Badoer, aveva reclutato truppe nella terraferma padovana ma, impantanatosi a Fusina era stato catturato da Ugolino Giustinian podestà di Chioggia. Il Badoer era imparentato con la famiglia padovana dei Da Peraga, una delle più potenti dopo i Carraresi, e la posta in gioco era l’installazione a Venezia di una Signoria collegata a Ferrara e a Padova. Ma non fu così: i rivoltosi furono giustiziati con l’accusa di alto tradimento, Baiamonte Tiepolo in esilio cercò inutilmente di ordire altre congiure contro Venezia finchè morì nel 1328-30 lontano dalla patria. La famiglia Querini trovò rifugio presso l’Isola di Stampalia nel Mare Egeo.

Per ringraziare la donna, Giustina Rossi, che passò alla storia come “la vecchia del mortaio”, il doge le ridusse l’affitto della casa di proprietà pubblica in cui abitava e dalla quale aveva salvato la Serenissima. Tale privilegio fu esteso anche ai suoi discendenti. Il bassorilievo della “vecia del morter” fu posto nel 1841 ad opera dello scultore Pietro Lorandini sul luogo in cui avvenne l’episodio , dove è tuttora visibile .

La percezione del rischio che la Repubblica, già minacciata da altre congiure, aveva corso in quel frangente, indusse a istituire il 10 luglio 1310 il Consiglio dei Dieci, cioè un tribunale per perseguire i reati contro lo stato che, dapprima provvisorio, fu poi più volte prorogato fino a divenire stabile nel 1455. Tale organo supremo dello Stato Veneziano svolse, con rito inquisitorio e grande autonomia decisionale, il ruolo di difensore della Repubblica da congiure e colpi di Stato, colpendo anche la disonestà dei cattivi amministratori che “intaccavano” il patrimonio pubblico.

Una congiura partita da Rialto e conclusasi a Rialto

I congiurati si riuniscono nella Domus Maior di proprietà dei tre fratelli Querini, che si trova a Rialto fra il Canal Grande e il rio Bellegno, poi delle Beccherie, il loro leader è Marco Querini, suocero di Baiamonte.

Dopo aver saccheggiato gli uffici di Rialto, i rivoltosi passano il ponte e, a S.Salvador, si dividono in due falangi. Una, capeggiata da Marco e da suo figlio Benedetto, prende Calle dei Fabbri e punta sulla Piazza attraverso il Ponte dei Dai, mentre quella guidata da Baiamonte imbocca le Mercerie. Quando le truppe ducali, avvisate da un traditore, assalgono alla sprovvista e uccidono i due Querini, i loro uomini cercano di congiungersi al Tiepolo, ma la fortuita caduta del mortaio che uccide il portabandiera fa perdere ai congiurati il riferimento che avrebbe consentito di riunire le due falangi per la battaglia decisiva.

Dunque non resta a Baiamonte che ritirasi verso Rialto. Il doge Pietro Gradenigo non lo fa seguire, si preoccupa di presidiare la Piazza e il Palazzo. Baiamonte con i suoi si mette in salvo passando il Canal Grande, solleva il ponte levatoio di Rialto, lo fortifica con gli alberi delle barche ormeggiate in Riva del Vin e mette a ferro e a fuoco la zona. Seguono tre giorni di trattative con il Gradenigo alla fine dei quali i rivoltosi prendono la via dell’esilio senza ulteriore spargimento di sangue.

La reazione della Repubblica secondo il Romanin fu “d’una grande mansuetudine” per non irritare troppo i congiurati che godevano della protezione di importanti personaggi stranieri, il papa in primis, e di molte famiglie veneziane del Maggior Consiglio. La casa di Baiamonte Tiepolo in Campo Sant’Agostin fu rasa al suolo e si proibì di erigervi altri edifici. A memoria perenne del misfatto si pose sulle sue ceneri una colonna infamante che ricordasse il suo tradimento .

Anche la grande casa dei Querini a Rialto fu demolita, ma solo per due terzi perché dei tre fratelli, Marco, Pietro e Giovanni, quest’ultimo non aveva partecipato alla congiura e dunque la sua porzione venne lasciata intatta, avendo cura di rispettare anche le parti comuni che ne garantivano l’accesso e l’utilizzo. Ma della splendida “domus maior” non deve esser rimasta gran cosa. Nel 1323 il Consiglio dei Dieci fece acquistare l’edificio superstite per trasportarvi le beccherie creandovi ”lo stallon”. Solo in tempi recenti l’area fu utilizzata per la Pescheria.

Nelli-Elena Vanzan Marchini

Storica e presidente di Venezia Civiltà Anfibia

Per maggiori informazioni, una biografia di Baiamonte Tiepolo si trova su Wikipedia.

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Rialto is rich in houses, craftsmen shops, osterie, public offices; the whole area is characterised by the strong presence of residents and commercial activities for them, a particular condition which determines great vitality and reasonable prices. Moreover, Rialto is crossed by an intense touristic flow and it surely is one of the hottest spots in Venice nightlife.

All activities are localized ina concentrated area: there you can see the old faces of fishmongers of the Pescaria; the affable smile of the elegant woman who sells spices; the eyes of the souvenirs dealers – which probably saw any kind of people and situations; the wrinkled faces of some men in the taverns; the colourful young mums buying fruits; the telescopic lenses of tourists who take pictures of eels and sea basses; the clinking glasses of Prosecco and the unexpressive looks of groups on holiday. Crossing Rialto Market in the morning is one of the best ways to get to know the real soul of Venice.

From this point of view it’s easier to remember that the insula realtina was the center of the immense commercial empire of the Serenissima, capital city of a state which was very clever in foreign affairs and which 800 years ago held offices, banks, botteghe and osterie. Rialto was crossed every day by thousands of people of different nationalities, as well as it is nowadays.

Our aim is to narrate the memory to emphasize the identity of a place that has almost 2,000 years of history, to highlight its rich and complex nature and to spread this information so that it takes the place of all banal clichés about the most imagined city in the world. Rialto Cuore della Città was born out of a plan of re-design of the area, a project started years ago by the Comune di Venezia to substain the economic development. Particular attention was given to the development of the Market, considered representative of the city identity, a place in charge of promoting local products and spreading traditional values.

In an attempt to substain the commercial activities also by seizeing the opportunities of touristic development, the projects aims at identifying a touristic offer connected to the quality and excellence that have always characterised the ancient Market. The offer has to be sustainable and in total armony with the residential vocation of Rialto area, in order to safeguard the quality of life.

Planning, storytelling, web 2.0: graphic design applied to territorial identity, actions and events were planned thanks to dialogues with the residents and merchants associations and with the active forces of the area. A participative process that gathers and distributes information, images and resources. A process that was welcomed enthousiasticly by people, and that is destined to continue in time.

The website geolocalizes on a Google Map the services, events of the programme, interesting spots and memories from the past, so that people can have a first approach with the history of Rialto and Venice, through its places.
The Blog allows the protagonists of Rialto to talk. In this way, the relationship with the territory and with the city are promoted.

The website is designed to distribute information on all faces of the digital identity of Rialto, such as the pages on the most important social networks, like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Friendfeed and YouTube.

The pages are animated by texts, comments, photos and videos and there is an intense communication with search engines, thematic channels dedicated to travel and free time, touristic websites and online journalism. This activities are spreading Rialto name on the net, linking it to the events of our programme and to the core values expressed on the website: quality, excellence, culture, tradition, art, refinement and quality of life.

Next steps will be the participation to European projects and to international networks of Markets, collaborations plans with the city instituions of tourism and culture, the promotion of the initiative in fairs and international events devoted to tourism.

Our blog is supposed to become more and more and instrument to encourage dialogue with and between the population and the merchants, a vehicle of updates and initiatives, a place for discussion and to share information.

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129, San Polo, Rialto, Venezia
Tel. +39 041 2770948
www.caffevergnano1882veneziarialto.com

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Articoli da regalo

Ruga Oresi, 44-52
Rialto, San Polo, Venezia
Tel. +39 041 5228944

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Calle del Bo, 826
Rialto, San Polo, Venezia
Tel. +39 041 5200889

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In the blog section of the website you can find an interview with Ezio Micelli, associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University IUAV of Venice where he teaches courses in Project Quantity Surveying and Economic Valuation.

He describes is own vision of Rialto, talking about the history and economics of such an important area of Venice, one of the nodes where our capitalist development radiated outwards.

You can read the interview here.

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Lorenzo Cinotti from Fnv interviews Ezio Micelli, associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University IUAV of Venice where he teaches courses in Project Quantity Surveying and Economic Valuation.

Lorenzo Cinotti: I was struck by your interview in the Corriere del Veneto last year where you referred to Rialto as one of Venice’s iconic sites.

Ezio Micelli: That rose-tinged impression that many people have of Venice, tourists in particular, of a kitsch city, the city of love, has no foundation in reality. It struck me that they perceive Rialto as a place rich in local colour when it was actually one of the key sites in the development of capitalism. Braudel recalls it in his history of capitalism, describing it as one of the nodes where our capitalist development radiated outwards, continuing via Belgium, London, New York and, who knows, possibly even heading for Shanghai today. We need to remember that a place like this is not merely a pleasant spot for tourists.

Looking around you will see signs that evoke memories: if you look up to your left as you come down the Rialto bridge you will see the statue of Justice. The themes of fairness and exchange and the market’s idea of rules take the shape of physical symbols. Although all this capitalism has since disappeared, leaving only a fruit and vegetable market in its wake, I think we should recall the almost epic relation that linked one of the city’s sites and the history of the world; it’s a little like the Punta della Dogana, now transformed into a place of artistic experience, which was once a docking place where one would land, present one’s papers, declare what was in the hold and continue on one’s journey.

I think that the awareness of the key role of the economy seems to have vanished in Rialto. Obviously this is also a tourist site, tourism is this century’s Eldorado, the leading industry in our country, in the Veneto for sure. The awareness that this is a place of exchange, of permanent negotiations, of dealings, takes us back to the image of the city as an open place; an idea that provides food for thought, especially in the North-East of Italy with its characteristic tendency towards closure. Venice is a city founded as a place of exchange, a market open to the world-economy – as Braudel would say – and must continue to be so.
Rialto is also striking in terms of its structure, which reveals a building density that was the maximum permitted by the technology of the times, that is, five to six floors. Let’s also take a look at the distances between buildings: if you go to Dorsoduro you’ll soon notice how they spread further apart. Rialto has been subjected to major building development and speculation and the aesthetics of the site raises important questions. We are faced with the paradox of a speculation process generating beauty; here in Rialto, like in New York or Shanghai, speculation used for motives of production ends up by creating beauty.

Lorenzo Cinotti: A beauty that is also synonymous with power, like St Mark’s Basilica.

Ezio Micelli: The beauty and economic strength that materialise in a space always raise questions. We love things that did not come into being thanks to the graces of some art patron, but were produced by a combination of speculation and contradictory conflicts. All this left something behind that we believe to be extraordinarily beautiful. A beauty that is not intentional.

Lorenzo Cinotti: A beauty generated by entrepreneurial activities.

Ezio Micelli: A beauty that was undoubtedly generated by a balance that ensured that contradictory impulses could produce an outstanding result.

Lorenzo Cinotti: The theme that you alluded to earlier, that of the open market, I think it also evokes the idea of the exchange of goods that is also an exchange of ideas and cultures.

Ezio Micelli: It is a metaphor that allows us to rethink our world. Venice undoubtedly represents a space of interaction for northern Italy. Other places offer different ideas of development but this city always raises questions because it has made openness its guiding principle; it is a city that has the ability to reconcile opposites, transforming this quality into a distinguishing feature. The very activity of doing business tends to make you tolerant. In fact the European Union came into being because the only way to put an end to fighting between France and Germany was to transform them into commercial partners. Venice is a city that teaches us that one way of preventing East and West from coming to blows is to entwine their destinies. How can we do that? Often by means of money.

Lorenzo Cinotti: In your opinion, how could we use the signs of the past, giving them a contemporary twist? I’m talking about reactivating the layers of symbolic meaning that have built up over time in Rialto.

Ezio Micelli: The city must keep its own identity alive: Rialto is a market; it must maintain its mercantile character but above all its role as a cross-roads and melting pot. To do so you require two key concepts: entertainment and culture. Places that speak for themselves, physically expressing dialogue, that are an intersection of cultures that complete each other must become the physical location of a culture of relations with others: The historic centre of Venice is one such place. Relationships can be created by means of different activities, in “high” or “low” forms, it doesn’t matter. I’m thinking of two recent events involving locals: one was the 40xVenezia party in the Pescheria at Rialto, presented as an occasion for reappropriating available spaces, and the other the Plessi installation at St Mark’s – Paradiso e Inferno (Paradise and Hell) – which involved the entire piazza, bringing contemporary art into people’s daily lives.

The tendency of such events is to make the area fun for young people, which is fine because it gives them a meeting place, but they fall short of completing the range of entertainment and cultural activities. I repeat, we are not just talking about elitist forms of expression here: the idea of intelligent popular culture that is different, shared, is suited to the market because it is a place with a popular dimension. This would allow culture to move away from designated places like the Biennale, from sophisticated forms and head for the market which belongs to everyone.

Lorenzo Cinotti: Integration from the grass-roots.

Ezio Micelli: Turning our attention back to the city of Venice and above all to the Rialto neighbourhood allows us to widen our conception of such places, which represent real opportunities in a city as rich as Venice. Although many people were initially worried about liberating the Rialto market, the urban void turned into an extraordinary platform for collective social life, capable of hosting the mayor’s party as well as the aperitif ritual. Of course, Rialto works because it is a space dense in symbolic meaning: something can always happen in a void like that. There are other urban voids that never take off, like St Mark’s Square.

Lorenzo Cinotti: Maybe the problem there is the lack of residential fabric. In Rialto the market and shops hold the residents together.

Ezio Micelli: A void like that, extraordinarily, almost awe-inspiringly beautiful and not exploited, represents a big problem for cities, because in Italy the piazza still plays a key role. The experience of recent years has taught us that shopping centres cannot replace the piazza: everybody goes to shopping centres to spend money and do shopping, but when you want an aperitif you always choose the piazza, a place of historic memory and shared experience. The same things came to mind with regard to Mestre: at a certain hour the city empties; although it is crossed by filling and emptying flows the key of interpretation is always the same: we meet up in places where a common experience has deposited in the doors, walls and pavements and where the sensation of an encounter lies in a truly shared idea belonging to the cultural consumption to which we all aspire.

Similarly the idea that we now have of art no longer corresponds to the large-scale museum exhibition, which has almost turned into a consumer event; the experience of art is more shared, more of a performance. If we move onto this level, commerce and entertainment will be forced to follow the trend. I should underline that the ability to attract people is no longer linked to the quality of the container. The bar or restaurant, or whatever, can reason on an individual basis once they attain a level of excellence, or when the places concerned can survive regardless of what surrounds them.

In Rialto you have to adopt a different approach: you enter a neighbourhood and choose the venue you like the best. As a result, owners cannot just rely upon their own business activity but need the support of the entire neighbourhood. I’m thinking of Rialto, but also of Campo Santa Margherita. For example, Santa Marta may have extraordinary potential but lacks critical mass; it has hardly any bars or restaurants, no urban void equipped with qualities. A place like that lacks the social dimension; the lack of bounded, ordered, geometrically closed spaces represents a problem.

Lorenzo Cinotti: Ten years ago we organised an encounter aimed at returning the Erbaria to the city; we invited shop-keepers, Insula and Consorzio Venezia Nuova, representatives from the Venice City Council and from other institutions. There were almost fifty people and I have to say that the information exchange worked well. There were local citizens and administrators and the atmosphere undoubtedly helped matters.

Ezio Micelli: Exactly, places like that are very attractive. An economy with a large segment of older persons does not attribute an exclusive value to money and spaces of pure economic exchange. It gives value to participation, to a high qualifying moment in a suitable place. It should be stressed that such places should be enhanced, space is not inherently beautiful but must be embellished otherwise it just becomes an abandoned void and Venice has enough of those kind of spaces already, abandoned and empty since time immemorial. Places need meaning and meaning is created by means of activities organised within their spaces.

Ezio Micelli is associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of University IUAV of Venice where he teaches courses in Project Quantity Surveying and Economic Valuation.

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Two months of events, theatre to narrate Rialto history, jazz music and activities for children have drawn the attention of people to the most important and oldest “piazza” of Venice: Campo San Giacometo, returned to people in 2009, after almost fifty years of oblivion behind a series of stalls.

The events were documented with videos and photos and narrated in Italian and English on the 2.0 website rialtovenezia.com. Events have drown the attention of press and blogs from different countries, presenting Rialto as a precious, accessible area, historic but lively and rich in opportunities for fun.
Activities in the Market offered the chance to think about the developing perspectives of an area that has been able to maintain its residential and popular features notwithstanding the daily touristic flow.

The website is still promoting Rialto, giving visibility to the cultural activities of the city associations and collaborating with Venetian photographers, writers and travellers who are contributing to the project with their different visions of Rialto.
All information is geolocalized on a Google Map and distributed on different social networks.

Rialto Cuore della Citta’. Events and web for the heart of Venice.

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Rialto continues to offer – to tourist and residents – cultural activities and opportunities to discover tha area: From Friday 16 to Saturday 24 April 2010, during the XII Settimana della Cultura, the Church of San Giovanni Elemosinario will be open for guided visits, concerts and conferences organized by Chorus, the association for the churches of the Patriarcato di Venezia.

Participants will have the chance to discover the Church of San Giovanni Elemosinario in Ruga Vecchia San Giovanni in Rialto, through guided tours and events in which students of Ca’ Foscari University will narrate the history of the Church and of the important artworks it hosts.

XII settimana della cultura:
Discover San Giovanni Elemosinario – a church in the heart of Venice.

Here you can find the complete programme of the events.

Info:

www.chorusvenezia.org

Rialto cuore della citta’
The best place to get to know the real Venice

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Photo courtesy © Vanessa

After two months of activities devoted to citizens and tourists, adults and children, for the promotion of Rialto and Venice, Rialto Cuore della Città has come to the end of its first season of events. One more concert for Donne in Jazz will conclude the whole initiative.

Thursday 15 April Anna Contin will perform – together with the pianist Marco Ponchiroli, Lello Gnesutta at the bass and Luca Bortoluzzi at the drums – in Campo San Giacometo at 6.30 pm. The concert will be a journey through different musical moods, from the origins to the contemporary evolutions of contemporary brasilian music: Bossanova, Samba, Reggae and Funky will be rearranged and performed in Rialto.

The concert is part of the events of Rialto Cuore della Città, the project to sustain Rialto and its Market, promoted by the Comune di Venezia and the Assessorato alle Attività Produttive.

Rialto Cuore della Città
Shows, jazz music, activities for kids in Rialto Market.

Thursday 15 April 2010
Campo San Giacometo
6.30 p.m. Donne in Jazz – Anna Contin Quartet

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In the heart of Venice, the Church of San Giacometo in Rialto is open out to a project devoted to brasilian music, jazz, songwriting and bossanova. From May, 8 until June, 26 Rosa Emilia brings in Rialto Noites Tropicales Live, seven appointments with brasilian music, originated from the contamination of ancestral african rhytms and western culture.

The singer celebrates important brasilian authors, from Tom Jobin to Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso, and her live sets are journeys through the different colours of Brasil, from the spontaneous sensuality of the Samba to the formal elegance of the finest songwriting.

Noites Tropicales festival will be inaugurated Saturday May, 8 at the Church of San Giacometo in Rialto, the oldest church of Venice located in the heart of Rialto Market. Ancient crossroad of ideas, cultures, commerce and diplomacy, Rialto is a perfect place to highlight the different traditions and rhytms of brasilian music.

Concerts will take place every saturday at 8.45 pm until June, 26.

Rosa Emilia Live
Noites Tropicales
Church of San Giacometo
Rialto, Venezia

May, 8 – June, 26 at 8.45 p.m.

tickets: 25 – 20 euro
Reservation- tel +39 349 2826483
Buy tickets on line at: ticketmagicst@gmail.com

Info
http://rosaemilia.com

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Rialto Cuore della Città has come to its penultimate weekend. There will still be many events: music, shows and games for kids in Rialto.

Thursday April, 8 the jazz concert of Nossa Alma Canta will inaugurate the weekend of events. The band will perform at 6.30 pm in Campo Bella Vienna.

Shows and activities will continue on Friday: acrobacies and music by the Piccola Compagnia del Cucco will enliven the Market in the morning, while at 4.30 pm the activities of Barchetta Blu will entertain the kids in Campo San Giacometo.

Saturday morning Giullari Officinalis will pacificly invade the Market, bringing music and fun to the whole Rialto area.

Rialto Cuore della Città
Shows, jazz music, activities for kids in Rialto Market.

Thursday 8 April 2010
Campo Bella Vienna
6.30 p.m. Donne in Jazz – Nossa Alma Canta

Friday 9 April 2010
Ruga Rialto, Campo San Giacometo, Mercato, Campo Bella Vienna, Pescheria
11.00 a.m. Il Mercato delle Meraviglie
Touring micro shows by Musica Officinalis

Campo San Giacometo
4.30 p.m.A journey of discovery into Rialto’s Market. Games and entertainment for kids by Barchetta Blu

Saturday 10 April 2010
Ruga Rialto, Campo San Giacometo, Mercato, Campo Bella Vienna, Pescheria
11.00 a.m. Il Mercato delle Meraviglie
Touring micro shows by Musica Officinalis

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Nossa Alma Canta will perform live tomorrow in Campo Bella Vienna at 6.30 pm. The concert is the first event in the penultimate weekend of Rialto Cuore della Città.

After 10 years of Bossanova and many releases, for their fourth official album “I was made for Bossa” Nossa Alma Canta have been trying to mix the brasilian background with the modern music culture: they mash up pop-rock songs from the 70’s on, original songs and brasilian classic music. The Kiss, Terence T. D’Arby, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, The Cure, Pink Floyd, Eagles find new expressions, a language that inserts percussion grooves and electronic elements into the brasilian moods.

The concert is part of the events of Rialto Cuore della Città, the project to sustain Rialto and its Market, promoted by the Comune di Venezia and the Assessorato alle Attività Produttive.

Rialto Cuore della Città
Shows, jazz music, activities for kids in Rialto Market.

Thursday 8 April 2010
Campo Bella Vienna
6.30 p.m. Donne in Jazz – Nossa Alma Canta

Friday 9 April 2010
Ruga Rialto, Campo San Giacometo, Mercato, Campo Bella Vienna, Pescheria
11.00 a.m. Il Mercato delle Meraviglie
Touring micro shows by Musica Officinalis

Campo San Giacometo
4.30 p.m.A journey of discovery into Rialto’s Market. Games and entertainment for kids by Barchetta Blu

Saturday 10 April 2010
Ruga Rialto, Campo San Giacometo, Mercato, Campo Bella Vienna, Pescheria
11.00 a.m. Il Mercato delle Meraviglie
Touring micro shows by Musica Officinalis

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Rialto offers many events for the easter weekend: jazz, theatre, entertainment for kids in the heart of Venice.
The concert of WhiteBlack for Donne in Jazz (Rialto Cuore della Città musical section) will kick off the series of events of the weekend. This week’s female protagonist is Beatrice Zanolini, performing live with WhiteBlack Thursday 1 April at 6 pm in Campo San Giacometo. The live concert will be exciting, ranging from jazz to pop and soul music. Original compositions and international classics will be performed and rearranged by the band.

More activities will take place in Rialto on Friday: the performances of Musica Officinalis will enliven the Market on friday morning, while the afternoon will be devoted to kids’ entertainment thanks to the activities of Barchetta Blu.

Saturday 3 April the theatre of the Serenisimo Tribunal de l’Inquisithion will narrate tales, legends and anecdotes of Venice’s ancient heart in the show C’era una volta Rivo Alto (Once upon a time there was Rivo Alto).

Rialto Cuore della Città
Shows, jazz music and entertainment for kids in Rialto

Thursday 1 April 2010
Campo San Giacometo
6.30 p.m. Donne in Jazz – Whiteblack

Friday 2 April 2010
Ruga Rialto, Campo San Giacometo, Mercato, Campo Bella Vienna, Pescheria
11.00 a.m. Il Mercato delle Meraviglie
Touring micro shows by Musica Officinalis

Campo San Giacometo
4.30 p.m. A journey of discovery into Rialto’s Market.
Games and entertainment for kids by Barchetta Blu

Saturday 3 April 2010
Campo Bella Vienna
4.30 p.m. Once upon a time there was Rivo Alto. Tales, legends and anecdotes of Venice’s ancient heart
Azioni teatrali by El Serenisimo Tribunal de l’Inquisithion

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