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The traditional fireworks show returns to Venice, while in Piazza Ferretto, Mestre, Radio Company will make the audience dance and welcome the arrival of the new year.

Photo:Vela Spa Press Office

Vela Spa is promoting New Year's Eve 2023 on behalf of the Municipal Administration in partnership with the Camera di Commercio Venezia e Rovigo and the Consorzio di tutela Prosecco DOC. The event offers a variety of options suitable for people of all ages, including both citizens and visitors.

New Year's Eve in Venice will be crowned by a breath-taking fireworks display. At midnight, the Bacino San Marco will light up with an exciting and suggestive scenery created to welcome the most anticipated night of the year. Parente Fireworks, a historic local company that has illuminated prestigious public and private events for over a century, including the spectacular fireworks display at the Festival of the Redentore.

The fireworks display will last approximately twenty minutes. The display will consist of a series of scenes that will follow rapidly and be interspersed with closures and more significant interludes. The display will build up to a grand finale, that will paint the sky with a multitude of lights and fireworks effects. The choreography will be intense and leave a long-lasting impression, to welcome 2024.

To enjoy the fireworks, the best places are near the Arsenale and along Riva degli Schiavoni, Riva Ca' di Dio, Riva San Biagio, Riva dei Sette Martiri, while the fireworks cannot be seen from Piazza and Piazzetta San Marco. At 11:30 pm, there will be a few individual fireworks, and the stewards will invite the public to position themselves along the waterfront. Access gates to the viewing areas will be set up, and security checks will be carried out as capacity is limited.

To make it easier for people to reach the historic centre and watch the show, additional runs will be organised on the main routes on the evening of 31 December, as well as for the exodus at the end of the fireworks display.

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In Mestre, the celebrations will revolve around the music of Radio Company, the radio that makes the squares of the north-east dance. DJ Ale De Biasi and speaker Viviana Rapisarda will lead the 'Wonder Company' event on the stage of Piazza Ferretto at 10:00 pm. Radio Company's DJs will provide entertainment for the last night of the year and welcome 2024 with music, fun, and gadgets.

RedMoon band will perform live on stage with a perfect mix of music and entertainment. Their repertoire blends dance with rock and pop, featuring great classics of disco music from the '70s-'80s, but also current dance music, as well as Italian songs that have made people dance and have fun over the years.

At midnight, the Radio Company team will join the audience in a symbolic toast with the bubbles of the Consorzio di tutela Prosecco DOC.

The Toniolo Theater is offering two opportunities to celebrate with a joyful performance. The Gran Gala du Cirque will be staged on Saturday, December 31 at 9:30 pm and on Sunday, January 1 at 6:00 pm. This new and exciting show features some of the best contemporary circus performers in the world. The show combines intense poetry and great comedy.

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The first day of the new year will open with the traditional New Year’S Concert of La Fenice Opera House, conducted by Maestro Fabio Luisi. As usual, the concert will be broadcast live on Rai 1. The concert will feature a selection of arias, duets, and choral passages performed by renowned soloists and the Chorus of La Fenice. The concert is divided into two parts, the first being exclusively orchestral and the second dedicated to Opera. The performance will end with two famous pieces by Giuseppe Verdi: the Chorus 'Va' pensiero sull’ali dorate' from Nabucco and the festive toast 'Libiam ne’ lieti calici' from La traviata.

The new year will begin with the traditional “dive” in the waters of the Lido di Venezia. This event is in its 43rd edition and is promoted by the Ibernisti del Lido Group, with support from the Municipality of Venice through Vela spa. Participants will gather on the beach in front of the Blue Moon at 12:00 pm on Monday, January 1rst to greet 2024 with a plunge. The group of daring Ibernisti gather to sail the calm waters of the Lido, whether the weather is sunny or cloudy. At the exit from the sea, they are greeted with refreshments that offer a menu typical of the first day of the year, including lentils, cotechino, and other gastronomic specialties. The event is open to the public, and there are children's animation programs at 11:15 am and a dedicated show at 12:15 pm..

If you’re planning to travel in Venice or you are already there, you have to go for a coffee to the Caffè Florian .

Caffè Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice. It is considered the oldest Café in Europe as it was opened on 29th December 1720 by Floriano Francesconi as “Alla Venezia Trionfante” and since then it’s in continuous operation but the café was renamed Cafe Florian by the name of the first owner.

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Caffe Florian was the favorite coffeehouse of 19th-century intellectuals, from Kazanova to Lord Byron, from Goethe to Marcel Proust, from James Joyce to Gertrude Stein. Many of this century’s famous personalities were impressed by the magic of the Venetian coffee and expressed their enthusiasm in paintings and in many literary works, such as novel Roderick Hudson (1875) and "Other Memories "(Further Reminiscences, 1889) by the English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).Also, many artists, such as Canaletto (1697-1768) and Giuseppe Bertini (1825-1898), painted Cafe Florian.

It is a symbol of Venice for 300 years. It is one of the oldest and most historical cafes of Italy along with Cafe Greco in Rome and Cafe Quadri, which is also found in Saint Mark's Square in Venice.

Photo : flickr.com/Giorgio Minguzzi
Concerning the interior decoration at Cafe Florian , his owner instructed the artist Ludovico Cadorin to reform his coffee in the so-called French rhythm of Pompadour and in 1858 it was reopened with luxurious halls, allegorical paintings on the walls, and large golden mirrors, red velvet sofas and marble tables and Murano crockery.

The first international art exhibition was held there in 1895 and it’s world known as the Venice Biennale. Creating an art exhibition was an idea of these years’mayor Riccardo Selvatico so as to pay homage to King Umberto I and Queen Margherita.

But Caffe Florian is also pioneering introducing in the early 20th century, the traditional European “café-concert” with a permanent orchestra that today still continues this beautiful tradition.(traveller365)

Italy reopens to travellers from Europe on Wednesday, three months after the country went into coronavirus lockdown, with all hopes pinned on reviving the key tourism industry as the summer season begins.

Gondolas are ready to punt along Venice's canals, lovers will be able to act out "Romeo and Juliet" on Verona's famed balcony, and gladiator fans can pose for selfies at Rome's Colosseum.

But there were fears many foreign tourists would be put off coming to a country still shaking off a vicious pandemic.

"Come to Calabria. There's only one risk: that you'll get fat," the southern region's governor Jole Santelli said on Sunday as the race began to lure big spenders -- or any spenders -- back to Italy's sandy shores.

Italy was the first European country to be hit hard by the coronavirus and has officially reported more than 33,000 deaths.

It imposed an economically crippling lockdown in early March and has since seen its contagion numbers drop off dramatically.

With the country facing its deepest recession since World War II, it needs foreigners to return, and quickly.

But it is still reporting dozens of new cases a day, particularly in the northern Lombardy region, and experts warn the government may be being hasty in permitting travel between regions and abroad.

'Like a leper'

International flights were only expected to resume in three main cities: Milan, Rome and Naples.

And there were concerns that those who usually come in by car, train or ferry from neighbouring countries would go elsewhere on their holidays.

Switzerland has warned its citizens that if they go to Italy they will be subject to "health measures" on their return. The country will open its borders with Germany, France and Austria on June 15, but not with Italy.

Austria is lifting restrictions in mid-June with Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary -- but again, not Italy, described last week by Vienna's health minister as "still a hotspot".

Other countries, such as Belgium and Britain, are still advising against, or forbidding, all non-essential travel abroad.

In response to perceived anti-Italian sentiment, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has warned countries not to treat Italy "like a leper".

He said Saturday he would be travelling to Germany, Slovenia and Greece to persuade them Italy is safe for foreign tourists.

Arrivals in Italy from Europe will not be required to self-isolate unless they have recently travelled from another continent.

Too expensive

Italy's lockdown has had a particularly devastating effect on the tourism sector, which amounts to some 13 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Historic sites were shut, restaurants closed, and hotels were used to care for coronavirus sick.

Restaurants, cafes and beach establishments have slowly reopened over the past two weeks -- although the government has said it reserves the right to impose localised lockdowns if it sees contagion numbers rise.

But only 40 of Rome's 1,200 hotels have reopened, the Corriere della Sera newspaper said Monday, and just a dozen in Milan. It costs too much to open them if they will just stand empty.

"My hoteliers all want to reopen, but as long as the borders remain closed, it's not possible," Marco Michielli, deputy head of hoteliers' association Federalberghi, said Saturday.

Italy's national tourism agency (ENIT) said some 40 percent of Italians traditionally travel abroad for their holidays, but could be forced this year to vacation at home, helping local businesses.

That may be little comfort to those running the country's costly historic sites, because most of the tens of thousands of visitors that usually flock daily to the Tower of Pisa, Pantheon or Pompeii come from abroad.

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