Venezia Venice Italy Feast of the Redeemer

One of the most interesting are in Venice for the Feast of the Redeemer, or the Festival of the Redeemer. While the celebration of Carnival in February is certainly its share of excitement, tradition was more popular among tourists, while the Feast of the Redeemer, held the third Saturday and Sunday in July, an event is really a local important participants in the Venice Film Festival on Saturday

citizens.The to spend to decorate their boats and a roof garden and fireworks ready for bed. A temporary floating bridge strung through the Giudecca Canal, allowing people of the Cross in the Church of the Redeemer. The revelers begin to gather at dusk, filling the basin of San Marco with its boats, Christmas decorations with balloons and banners, waiting for dinner to see at night. People come t

ogether and celebrate with enthusiasm over the rooftops, boats, docks. The fireworks began in the afternoon and last up to an hour, the audience is full of intense emotions of the Giudecca and the Lido, where young people gather to enjoy the fireworks from a distance and follow their own celebrations throughout the night. Sunday morning, people either go to church or to the Regatta of the Redeemer

, the traditional race held at the home of the Redeemer on the Giudecca Canal between 1575 and 1577, during an outbreak of plague devastated Venice. During this short period, one third of the victims of the population of the city or a more deadly disease, like Venice, the great painter Titian. The Senate said Doge Alvise Mocenigo, commissioned a majestic church dedicated to Christ the Redeemer to