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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Get apartments in Venice and enjoy fine wines and the best Italian food. The magic of Venice will catch you, its canals and magnificence certainly make it one of the most romantic cities in Europe.

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Of all the possible heroes, Captain America is not exactly the best demonstration of the inverse fascism of mass culture. Retracing the history, and motives, the way that the character, which is now over 50 years old, was created, is of particular importance in this day and age, with people such as Berlusconi, Zapatero, Chavez, and Obama and other supposed “defendants” of “democracy” tending instead to hide secret plans, or different political agendas which are of little help to the people, and which really have very little to do with the democracy or rights of the people – but rather, with corruption, mafia, the abuse of power, violence and war.

Captain America belongs to that golden age of comic books in the United States, but it went on to enjoy a second round of triumph, in what is known as the “Silver Age.” Captain America’s story is one of pure “American Hero.” Born on the 4th of July, Steve Rogers is a boy from New York who in the face of the bloody saga of the Second World War, Hitler, fascism, and the potential end of the world impending, decides to enlist himself in the North American military forces to “serve his country” and defend it from the threats of the Third Reich. So, after passing some tests, he is rejected for not fulfilling all the necessary requisites. However, after offering himself up for a secret experiment being conducted by the American government, who is looking for a “Super Soldier”, Steve Rogers becomes “Captain America”, with superhuman powers, and speed, and a uniform made from the colours of the American flag, and a shield made from indestructible material, with which he heads off into the war zones to oversee the North American army’s battle against the Third Reich. With the passing of the years, the figure of the character changed considerably – the comic books killed him off, and resuscitated him, making the leader of a group of superheroes by Marvel Comics called The Avengers.

These days, the new version of Captain America reflects this history, and illustrates once again that the ideologies all remain the same, even if the contexts can be manipulated. In a situation of global crisis, with people like Berlusconi, who uses power and corruption to get whatever takes his fancy, where are the real superheroes? When will they start to write stories in which people like Berlusconi are the “evil” enemy – who amongst us is the real “baddie” – and who should be the new face of post-modern heroism? This film harks back to the days of the Second World War and the dangers of fascism – because the idea of the “Super Soldier” and the “American Hero” has little relevance to the times we are living in. Any corporation is in its way fascist in essence. For more information about Captain America, visit http://marvel.com/

Alexa Ray

Get apartments in Venice watch Captain America and reflect on the eternal mistakes of power and politics, the media and`popular culture.

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Of all the possible heroes, Captain America is not exactly the best demonstration of the inverse fascism of mass culture. Retracing the history, and motives, the way that the character, which is now over 50 years old, was created, is of particular importance in this day and age, with people such as Berlusconi, Zapatero, Chavez, and Obama and other supposed \”defendants\” of \”democracy\” tending instead to hide secret plans, or different political agendas which are of little help to the people, and which really have very little to do with the democracy or rights of the people – but rather, with corruption, mafia, the abuse of power, violence and war.

Captain America belongs to that golden age of comic books in the United States, but it went on to enjoy a second round of triumph, in what is known as the \”Silver Age.\” Captain America\’s story is one of pure \”American Hero.\” Born on the 4th of July, Steve Rogers is a boy from New York who in the face of the bloody saga of the Second World War, Hitler, fascism, and the potential end of the world impending, decides to enlist himself in the North American military forces to \”serve his country\” and defend it from the threats of the Third Reich. So, after passing some tests, he is rejected for not fulfilling all the necessary requisites. However, after offering himself up for a secret experiment being conducted by the American government, who is looking for a \”Super Soldier\”, Steve Rogers becomes \”Captain America\”, with superhuman powers, and speed, and a uniform made from the colours of the American flag, and a shield made from indestructible material, with which he heads off into the war zones to oversee the North American army\’s battle against the Third Reich. With the passing of the years, the figure of the character changed considerably – the comic books killed him off, and resuscitated him, making the leader of a group of superheroes by Marvel Comics called The Avengers.

These days, the new version of Captain America reflects this history, and illustrates once again that the ideologies all remain the same, even if the contexts can be manipulated. In a situation of global crisis, with people like Berlusconi, who uses power and corruption to get whatever takes his fancy, where are the real superheroes? When will they start to write stories in which people like Berlusconi are the \”evil\” enemy – who amongst us is the real \”baddie\” – and who should be the new face of post-modern heroism? This film harks back to the days of the Second World War and the dangers of fascism – because the idea of the \”Super Soldier\” and the \”American Hero\” has little relevance to the times we are living in. Any corporation is in its way fascist in essence. For more information about Captain America, visit http://marvel.com/

Alexa Ray

Get apartments in Venice watch Captain America and reflect on the eternal mistakes of power and politics, the media and`popular culture.

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The Transformers saga, from its origin as an animated series, doesn’t stop representing one of the most constant battles between universal good and evil. But, are we sure? No, not exactly. And it’s because Transformers, like many other mass culture products, just persists in violence and sells to the world the hierarchy of certain nations above others, the abuse of power as well as fascism. The plot of Transformers is pretty simple: according to the first version of the cartoons, a group of alien robots arrives to Earth in the middle of a great battle, between the ‘good’, the ‘Autobots’, and the ‘bad’, the ‘Decepticons’. After a crash landing, both sides arrive on Earth to carry on their war in the middle of humanity, which is completely astonished in front of the presence of such aliens.

The problem here is understanding Transformers further than entertainment. In the recent film ‘Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon’, we’re once again in front of an ‘American’ country that has knowledge above the rest, and that discovers in 1969 that, in fact, there’s alien life, and that the space race of that time between the USSR and the USA wasn’t but a reason to reach the discovery of an abandoned ship on the Dark Side of the Moon. Therefore, once again, all search of knowledge is just a cover up for the urgency of acquiring much more political power, which is actually power but hidden, the power of knowledge that’s not shared, that’s not publicised “due to international security measures”.

The war of Transformers isn’t but two big masses of armed, mechanical and futuristic power on a terrain that doesn’t belong to them, which is planet Earth. In this way, the near-apocalyptic devastation that occurs in the cities that are shown in the film, are just the desert or the jungle or the playing field of two great big power dimensions, that confront their power without the slightest interest of their surroundings. In the same way, the Autobots ‘agree’ to protect the human race and ‘liberate’ it from the iron fist of the Decepticons. Again, this has a loophole, and the judge tries to be the true authoritarian, that of justice.

If we could put a face on Megatron or Optimus Prime, the leaders of both sides, the faces of Berlusconi, Bush, Zapatero, Blair, Bin Laden (RIP), Obama, Rasputin, El Duce or whichever other could easily fit these transformable robotic bodies. Of course one must remember that fascism is everywhere and that there isn’t a good or bad side behind the screen, that the search and desire of power hasn’t stopped corrupting the interest of any subject, that the mega world enterprises are those who have control and that this is a corporate reality where ‘beings from other worlds’ don’t stop fighting to solve their own mafias, leaving the citizens to one side. Watch Transformers carefully and think. For more information visit: http://www.transformersmovie.com

Alexa Ray

Pay more attention when you watch a blockbuster movie from Hollywood, there’s always a message between the lines. This summer, get apartments in Venice and watch Transformers.

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