Worldwide any reading of the city of Venice is, almost by definition, confined to the perimeter of the historic city: the palaces, bridges, bell towers, public areas and private spaces are noted and praised, the more than forty wonderful museums are visited and the world knows about the (...)

For some time now, an extremely fragmented territory as the Northeast has been seeking for stronger connecting elements than the merely material ones represented by its infrastructures. The infinite city seems to have understood that without elements of significance the local future looks more (...)

Venetian lands have always produced culture, both in the capital, born and grew up on the water, and very intensely also on the mainland: an immediately visible prove of that is the cultural heritage handed on strongly in the historic centre, and noticeable also in a much wider area. Nowadays (...)