Do you know of any good sources on the history of the mining concerns of #Venice in the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, in particular how they acquired the rare minerals for their famous glass production?
It's okay if the sources are in #Italian - I am trying to learn the language.
I've yet to understand how charging an entry fee of €5 would deter anyone, after they've paid thousands just to get there. Maybe €50 would do it, though if I was designing a system to reduce visitor numbers I'd go for a free lottery.
Good morning & if you're in Venice make sure you pay you €5 entry fee to the city which debuts today (and will be levied on the 29 projected busiest days this year).
Enforced by random checks (with fines of €50-300 for non-compliance), many other city authorities will be watching to see what the effects are.
The lobbying to keep the charge low may have lessened its deterrence value for those not staying overnight in the city... but an interesting experiment nonetheless!
The Sphere, Las Vegas is truly a local landmark and icon. I’ve always felt that we had smaller versions of #venice or #paris or #newyork. This trip we saw “Postcards from The World” an immersive take on the world and it was spectacular. We also met Aura, the chatty #robot that answered all our questions. I am proud to say that now I feel that Las Vegas has a structure of its own that is truly unique. Not to say massive! #tourism#travel#photography#travelphotography
My decision to try and learn #Italian as a third language (after German and English) was based on two things:
I want to travel outside of Germany again, and to my mind it's best if you understand the local language. However, since I want to avoid flying for environmental reasons, I preferred a nearby country.
Furthermore, my main hobby obsession is German #folklore - and German folklore has a large number of folk tales about #Venice and Venetians that read like drug-induced fever dreams. The opportunity to compare the myth to the real thing is too good to resist!
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, composers like Antonio Vivaldi and Nicola Popora taught music to orphaned girls at Venice's four Ospedali Grandi. For @TheConversationUS, musicologist Marica S. Tacconi tells the story of how, on a visit to one of the smaller Ospedali, she and singer Liesl Odenweller found, painted in a fresco, a page of sheet music, which will be performed in a concert this December.
Travelling. From our fifth stop, Prague, we caught the train to Budapest and then on to Bratislava and then to Venice.
Budapest was great, a really vibrant city, but there were two particular highlights: a MonsteRoller scooter tour and a visit to the Budapest Pinball Museum.
We only had one night in Bratislava, so barely scratched the surface but we were a bit underwhelmed.
The train from Vienna to Venice, across the alps, was absolutely great with some stunning scenery.
We crossed the Via Della Liberta road bridge at sunset and arrived in Venice Station which exits right onto the Grand Canal. It's a bit of a shock, to be honest, because how Venice works hits you all at once. Water buses, taxis and commercial and private vehicles buzz up and down the canal and all the streets are right on the canal. There are no cars. At all. No bikes. No scooters. It's either by boat or on foot. Amazingly, the public transport works really well and, after a few false starts off going to the wrong platform, Google Maps was able to help us navigate Vienna via public transport.
I often wonder how #arthistory would have been different if Vasari has been a Venetian?
Famously, Vasari championing Michealngelo, stressed the basis of art in drawing (disegno) while the art tradition dominant in #Venice emphasised its basis in colour (choice & use).
If Vasari has been a Venetian might we have told a different history of art?
Might we have had a different canon?
Or would the identity of the great artists have remained the same?
The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio
The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio from 1829 is the essential dictionary of the late Venetian language for anybody trying to read old Venetian texts.
While I appreciate why #Venice has decided to trial a €5 a day #Tourism charge per visitor, partly to try to damp down the numbers coming to the city, it also finally confirms my view that while it has an extraordinary history, Venice really now just is a large scale historic theme park.