Properties Around Italy
Veneto - Art and Culture
Culture
Veneti are very proud of their culture. Each section of the various towns has its patron saint whose feast day is celebrated. Many other festivals are closely allied to the religious calendar. Among these:
* Panevin celebrated around Epiphany;
* Carneval celebrated the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday;
* Pasqua (Easter Sunday);
* Saint Mark's feast day (April 25);
* La Sensa (Ascension Thursday);
* La festa del Redentor (mid July);
* Vendemmiare (grape harvest in September);
* San Nicolo de Bari (St. Nicholas, December 6);
* Nadal (Christmas).
Main tourist attractions
The Veneto region ranks first in the tourist sector in Europe, with about 60 million tourists every year.
The cities of art
Venice: The kaleidoscopic scenario born of an amazing, intricate and harmonious communication network of water and stone casts light and shadows unique in the world upon a city already singular for its art, history and culture. Venice and its lagoon are listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.
Verona: The city of the most famous lovers in history: Romeo and Juliet.It is one of the cities that has better preserved its artistic heritage in Italy. Verona has been named a UNESCO world heritage site.
Padua: also known as the City of the Saint, is a city of huge importance for its cultural, historical and economic aspects and the Orto botanico di Padova is on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.
Vicenza: is on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites, together with a number of the Palladian Villas.
Montagnana: is a commune in the province of Padova with great famous perfectly conserved medieval walls
Bassano del Grappa: with its wooden covered bridge or Ponte degli Alpini on the river Brenta, designed in 1569 by the architect Andrea Palladio
Marostica : The 'Chess Game' event takes place on the second weekend of September and it involves over 550 characters and lasts two hours.
Asolo: is known as 'The Pearl of province of Treviso', and also as 'The City of a Hundred Horizons'.
Este : The House of Este held the city until 1240, when they moved their capital to Ferrara.
Ville Venete
All over the Venetian plain, but especially in the Provinces of Treviso, Padua, Vicenza and Venice, there stand numerous remarkable artistic rural constructions, the Ville Venete. The dates of construction of these villas range from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. There are approximately five thousand Ville Venete, of which 1,400 are declared of historical and monumental interest.
* CISA : The Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (Palladio Centre and Museum) in Vicenza is an independent Foundation, supported by the Veneto Regional Government and by the Italian state