What to see in Venice

Touring a city is not only about watching streets and monuments, try to get lost in avenues and roads, without getting lost you will never discover what the city is really about. A drifting travel route through the city, is perhaps the best way to realize how the city itself is articulated with its inhabitants, what benefits does it offer, what are its restaurants, plazas, cafes and stores made of.

If you are in Venice, of course, the routes along the canals of this city will surely lead you to an unknown location where to relax and above all, where to taste some of the finest wines. In Venice you will find a wide variety of delicious Italian wines, however a long list of international wines will also be at your disposal. Some of the best wine bars of Venice also offer delicious tapas you will love trying with the highest quality of wines. Here are some options for your wine tour in Venice:

Since 1999, the Wine bar Al Prosecco serves some of the best Italian and international wines. Located in Campo San Giacomo da l’Orio, away from the tourist areas of the city, Al Prosecco also features a beautiful and welcoming environment, surrounded by trees. This is a classic and romantic place for you. You can also find regional and national wines, as well as delicious local food.

Vini to Bottegon is another place you have to visit if you are a wine lover. Their exceptional selection of high quality wines, is available to take away or to drink on site. Here you will be able to find wines like Giuseppe Quintarelli at a very good price. Also, you should try the delicious Cod Ciccette, vegetable and meat salads, fresh bread, variety and delight. It is better come here place for lunch, since it closes at 8:00 pm.

Ai Artisti is another good option if you enjoy drinking good wine. This is a cozy and picturesque place where you will also enjoy the best local cuisine based on meat, fish and vegetables. Ai Artisti also pays special attention to traditional flavors and classic Italian wine over other wines. If you want to know in depth the variety of flavors, aromas and textures of Italian wine, this is definitively the place to go.

A wine bar that you can’t miss is Mascareta. Mostly frequented by locals and few tourists, this wine bar also offers delicious fresh fish tapas to make the perfect starter to other typical dishes. The staff is friendly and lively as Venice itself. Nothing better than walking the streets exploring Venice, photographing its canals and valuing its rich culture, food and wine.

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Translated by: Hans
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The ability of sculpture to capture the public has over years perhaps lessened somewhere, thanks to constantly updated new means of creation in art – giving the impression that sculpture has been cast to one side by other more modern media such as video, conceptual and minimal art, and painting which seems to always stay around in one manifestation or another. However, the history of sculpture makes us see the reality of the fact that it is without a doubt the predecessor of many other forms of art – and that its relation with architecture is an extremely close one. From the monoliths on the ancient temples, the interaction with three dimensional materials has always been present. The size of sculpture has always functioned as a way of making statements in public spaces, and to direct people down an unexpected emotional route.

When we think of sculpture we always think of Venus de Milo and of course David – that pursuit of creating the perfect human form; to want to create the possibility, and image of a body which is almost a divine experience to look at. It is without a doubt the ancient Greek sculpture which is the finest example of this – the making of the artist of the ideal proportions of a humanity which has never been “perfect.” The body then takes supreme importance in the birth of philosophy – things which had not been studied before. It was all about the best way to depict a certain muscle, and which materials to use in order to reach divine perfection.

Much other sculpture has been of great importance, particularly on a religious and military level – sculptures have served as a form of defense of different religions, and also to celebrate massacre, acts of war, the conquering of land, to name just a very few examples. References to god and the almighty have always gone hand in hand with the artistic rendering of beauty.

And with modernity and the avantgarde of course all of this was shaken up once again, with sculpture becoming something else entriely – an anarchic exercise, something which went against the system, which could be both invisible and conceptual, and used unconventional and non-classical materials like rubbish or even the flesh of real animals. Sculpture came to be a discipline which attempted to disarm and discuss contemporary morals, and actively question all kinds of politics. Open 14 presents the most recent of sculpture and contemporary installation in a space which seeks to identify a contrast the latest mediums of artistic expressions in the art market, drawing attention to the issues prevalent today. For more information visit the following web page: http://www.artecommunications.com/

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Find apartments in Venice and enjoy one of the biggest sculpture and installation shows in Europe. And Venice is home to a whole host of brilliant museums and galleries for you to soak up during your stay – an unforgettable experience for anybody who loves art and culture.

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Usually some artists are linked to their cities of origin in a way that their cities’ culture, images, buildings, activities, general imagery and surroundings, influence their work, producing a cosmogony that becomes universal, and represents the city out above all others. The fetish of the city is not an excuse, or a reason of representation, but it is the need to permeate the city, making it part of a living expression. It would be very difficult not to consider similar cases, let’s think about Dalí and his strong relationship with Figueras, his home town, full of water surfaces, rocks, beaches and small ports, which inevitably came to the surfaces of this genius’ works in one way or another. Consequently, Figueras accompanied Dali’s strokes all the time.

A very similar connection is experienced between Lou Reed and New York, link that goes beyond the visible. For Reed the canvas is a song, a complex operation in which thousands of voices, characters and conditions talk about details of minorities, those isolated and ground voices of the “Big Apple”. Reed incorporates the voice that stands out in every city and with the same talent turns these meaningful surfaces in an universal material that does nothing but dazzle, to approach us to his stories, while letting us know the city from a different perspective.

Ludovico de Luigi is an example built from the imaginary. In his work, the apocalyptic borders on the reality, the surrealism on the disasters and the sensual and romantic come to draw bleak landscapes, in which the impossible comes close to fright us. His first exhibition was done back in 1965 at the gallery “Il Canale” in Venice. At that time, his exhibited works showed a Venice overrun by waves of insects and fantastic beings, taking over the city and its rivers. His work was extended and presented at various international galleries in major art cities such as Paris, New York and Milan. The interesting thing about Ludovico Luigi is that his works uses Veduta techniques, in which the prospects of public space have interesting optical angles, while portraying the idiosyncrasies of a particular time within an urban space.

In this way, Luigi uses these techniques to condemn and portray the elements that constantly threaten Venice. This amazing and decadent aura, represented in his pictures, shows floods, pollution, consumerism, poor technology; everyone becomes recurrent in his fantastic work. Visit his website to learn more about his work: http://www.ludovicodeluigi.it/

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Nothing like getting one of the apartments in Venice and learn about the city that inspired this popular artist. Learn about his work, it is pure Poetry!

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