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Today is the “Christmas of Venice”, the birth date of the legend of the Serenissima

Today, 25 March, the so-called "Christmas in Venice" is traditionally celebrated, that is, the day on which, in 421, the first church of the city, that of San Giacometto, was allegedly consecrated on the island of Rialto.

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A few steps away, about 700 years later, the first bridge would have been built in wood: it is the "mythical" date of the foundation of Venice. therefore the Serenissima turns 1602 today, an age that allows one to look around with a certain sense of superiority. Venice in the fifth century was only a small community around a church, yet, within a few centuries, it would become a superpower in the Mediterranean. How many remember that, in the Fourth Crusade, Venice even conquered Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Empire, in 1204. That until 1700 Venice was a power in the Mediterranean with which all national states had to reckon. Which in any case the Serenissima has given us a lot from a cultural point of view, especially in theater and music.

Now Venice is a sort of large museum, but it survives, indeed somehow lives in its precarious, unique balance between water and land. Let's hope that this miracle still has many Christmases ahead of it.


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The article Today is the "Christmas of Venice", the date of birth of the legend of the Serenissima comes from Scenari Economici .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/oggi-e-il-natale-di-venezia-la-data-di-nascita-della-leggenda-della-serenissima/ on Sat, 25 Mar 2023 22:12:28 +0000.