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Happy New Year – but not yet

While we celebrate New Year on January 1st, for entire period of the Republic of Venice the Venetian state celebrated New Year on March 1st.

Dec 31, 2023 •

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and

In Venice, near Santa Maria Formosa, there's a blueish green door everybody photographs.

Oct 18, 2023 •

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Nine-Eleven in Venice

Nine-Eleven in Venice is the anniversary of a tornado which in 1970 killed 36 persons, mostly in a sunken water bus at Sant'Elena

Sep 11, 2023 •

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