Redentore Festival
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The fireworks begin, usually, at 23.30, but to find a space that gives the chance to see them with convenient, many carry chairs and tables already the previous day, while the cooks prepare the feast specialties, guinea fowl and sardee in sauce .
In the early days of the month of July began to get sick of the plague but the first people the city government did not consider it right the epidemic, underestimating the consequences that could be established, so by the end of September, the disease had claimed many victims and late shift for the sick on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, quarantining of people who had had contact with the sick on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo or hospitalization or beggars boats and travelers, only dimmed the expansion of the dreaded disease. On 4 September 1576, the Senato Venetian decreed to build a church "dedicated to our Redeemer" by voting every year His Serenity and his successors anderanno solemnly to visit the aforesaid Church in perpetual memory of the benefit obtained .
To travel to the Island of Giudecca were approached more than eighty galleys to support the bridge through which the Doge and "Scuole Grandi" solemnly brought to the temple devotion and thanksgiving for the past fear. Since then, a tradition that lasts even today, a pontoon bridge is thrown, and inaugurated on Saturday evening wings 18,00, between the shores of the Zattere and Giudecca, just in front of the Church, because every year the political and religious leaders can go in procession to the votive temple.
The religious festival (but especially its implication pagan) is, as I said, very much felt by the Venetians, in fact seen that you make in the waters of the St. Mark's Basin, can be considered the last remaining party to the Venetians, although it has become international and attracts people from everywhere. Proof of this are the many private boat cruise that in the days dedicated to moor party along the shore of Zattere.
The best locations from which the fireworks are visible every year are besieged by many people arriving in the early afternoon to take the places to see the fireworks. In the map below shows the best points, but also from further afield are still clearly visible.
Just because they are the best places to watch the fireworks the shore of Piazzetta San Marco, the Riva degli Schiavoni, the Zattere, the fondamenta Giudecca, but also the Accademia Bridge or even the automotive Ponte della Libertà, are full of people, all stops with the nose and ready to review with noisy Hoo the most beautiful sciochi only when they are detonated three firecrackers to show the end of the fireworks, everyone is ready to resume their chores left before the firework display.
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