What they said about Venice
"There are neither horses nor cars: the channels' melody makes of Venice the ideal city for endlessly echoing songs" George Sand. Famous people's statements on Venice.

The Venetian Language for Foreigners
Trying to satisfy the curiosity of intrepid foreigners: answers in dialect

A case of social incorporation: Gypsy and foreigner children in a primary school
Anna Rita Calabrò, sociologist. An Abstract from a research published in: 'The Gypsies at the borders of a big city", Venezia, Marsilio, 1992

Padan Hussein
It's easy to divide North from South. It's difficult to unify North with North. An article by Lia Celi

The word to Venice
A section dedicated to those who want divulge their own opinions, comments, observations in order to show the real nature of the city's facts and people. A meeting point for autochthonous and not autochthonous people.

Tourists for choice
For viewing on real-time city-sights at you choice!

BALNEA.museum
The Civiltà Balneare (the Seaside's Culture) Virtual Museum, a site completely dedicated to the seaside tourism and the "sea-invention"

Entertainment in Venice
Restaurants, pubs, theaters, discos and live music recommended and by Venetians.

Traditional recipes from Venice
Mazoro and valesana, risotto de go, moleche fritte, bisato su l'ara e and many other traditional recipes.

A trip on a gondola or on a vaporetto .
The gondoliere's hour, as the psycoanalist's one, lasts 50 minutes. The tariff is fixed, and you will find it hard to lower it. All gondolieres speak a little of English and have a slight knowledge of Venice' art and history. But do not expect them to sing!

Actv: urban sea-transport network: timetables and itineraries
It was in 1881 that a regular liner with a mechanical propulsion vessels started in Venice. Its origin was French and for the first time people could admire the ''VAPORETTO'' sailing along the CANAL GRANDE.

The New Venice
The city and district's newspaper

Masks, Carnival, costumes, festivities and the art of craftmen
All about events such as Carnival, Historical "Regata", Vogalonga etc.

Masks, costumes and dances
Venice's feasts, costumes and dances, the art of craftmen, the Murano's Glass and shops.

The "Festa della Salute" one of Venice's most ancient festivities.
In 1630 Venice was making war to Austria; the conflict had caused a terrible pestilence in the entire region....

Murano's Glass
The first items were shown in 1922 in Venice, at Biennale: a typical exemple of a family tradition in the art of glass.

The art of craftsmen
Papers, masks, fabrics, items of glass and wood.

The Venice's Laguna from an ecological point of view
The faunistic Archive and the Laguna of Venice's System are the subject of a research programme promoted by the Ministry for Universities and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST), co-ordinated by CNR. In the last years some hundreds of scientific reports on the Laguna's actual ecological conditions have been provided by CNR.

Venice's air
The quality of the air nowadays in Venice (by the Municipal Ecology Centre - Servizio Ecologia)