A Garden in Venice

Yes, from the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello

Part of the bluish Grand Canal in Venice seen from the fourth floor of a palace, red roofs in the foreground and background, green patches (gardens), and blue skies all over

A view of #Venice and the Grand Canal I hadn't seen before🌹
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Peggy Guggenheim's former home) and its garden are on the left, and you can make out the Basilica del Redentore on the island Giudecca in the background
#venezia #italia #italy #VerdeVenezia #canalgrande

Venetian monastery building (in Venetian red) in the background. Red poppies, edible herbs, artichokes, and vines in the foreground.

Blue skies over #Venice today on the first day of June, Festa della Sensa. And this is how the Giardino del Redentore (monastery #garden on Giudecca island) looked like today, all red poppies and lush vines🍃
#venezia #venice #italia #italy #giardino

Six images of white blossoms in late May / early June, from the garden in Venice

La Festa della Sensa will be celebrated soon in #Venice, on June 1st. And the little garden will be dressed festively, all white in early summer: Oleander, fragrant jasmine, chamomile, wild roses, petunia, datura stramonium, and more🍃
#venezia #giardino #garden #italy #italia #gardening

Table for one? Venetian cat living the life.
#Caturday
#Venice

Thank you ❤️ yes, a glimpse of how we live in Venice

tulip tree with white and yellow blossoms

Tulip tree (liriodendrum) now blossoming in late May, in a garden overlooking the northern Lagoon (Litorale di Cavallino - Treporti) 🍃
#Venice #Venezia #garden #giardino #Italy #lagunadivenezia

A Venetian semi-private courtyard, red brick walls and lush greenery, plus an ancient plant of wisteria

A lush corner in #Venice I love, Calle del Forno near the #Biennale area🍃
This year, wisteria blossomed rather early from late March, and should be blooming again by summer solstice. And there will be more wisteria blossoms after the heat, by mid-September.
#venezia #garden #giardino #italia #italy

Thank you so much 🌸 this is the milky and soft morning light, typical for April and May in Venice

From mid-April, the Lagoon is covered by pink and white tamarisk blossoms. And now in May, red and white poppies bloom in the salt marshes ("barene").
This one grows in Treporti, facing the northern Lagoon, the islands #Torcello and #Ariano in the distance🍃
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Six types of blossoms you will find in May in the Lagoon of Venice, especially white and yellow, in the gardens and in wild and unkempt corners

Blossoming in the Lagoon of #Venice in May:
~ White tamerix (island Torcello)
~ Hemp palm (everywhere)
~ Cape marguerites (Burano and Giudecca)
~ Viburnum (Torcello)
~ Quince (island Mazzorbo)
~ Ancient roses, like our rosa cymosa
+ many more🍃
#venezia #garden #giardino #gardening #italy #italia

When I read history or mythology of the region I search for this map of the Mediterranean that’s tilted by 90 degrees. It somehow makes the Mediterranean Sea look even smaller and is confusing to look at buuuut it forces me to look at the region differently. Source: buff.ly/31JaIig

Blossoming now in the little #garden in #Venice
This was grandmother's favorite, rosa cymosa, a climbing rose native to China)🍃one of the botanical treasures still thriving in the lush gardens of our city.
#Venezia #Italia #Italy #garden #giardino

Light pink roses, in the background on the left you can see the island San Giorgio Maggiore and Basilica della Salute.

Buon #weekend da #Venezia 🍃
Here we are at the Giardini della Marinaressa (2.200 qm), an oasis with secular pine trees and sculptures on Riva Sette Martiri, near the #Biennale area.
On the left, you can see San Giorgio Maggiore and Basilica della Salute.
#giardino #Venice #Italy #Italia

Visite guidate - Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore Le visite guidate agli spazi privati dell'Abbazia, erogabili in italiano e in inglese, vengono effettuate solo previa prenotazione all'indirizzo

Did you know a papal conclave took place in Venice? The last conclave outside Rome was held in the island abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1799-1800. You can visit the conclave chapel on tours (email ahead) #Conclave2025 www.abbaziasangiorgio.it/visite-guida...

Hotel Giorgione 🌿

The balsam garden of Cairo (Fustat), with its seven pools of water and jars to catch the balsam

BL Sloane 4016; Herbal; c.1440; Italy, N. (Lombardy); f.10v

Here's a fun one for Venice lovers. A very accurate map from 1838 made by two Englishmen. If you think Venice doesn't change much you might be in for a surprise. Take a look at what's now via Garibaldi for starters.

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Mint and vines in the garden in Venice

Mint and vines growing lush now in mid-May, in the little #garden in #venice 🍃
It's an ancient terraced garden with edible flowers and herbs, bordered by green hedges of pittosporum, wisteria, pomegranate, and jasmine.
#giardino #venezia

A Disastrous Flood. 12-17 November 2019. Bad weather causes floods (acqua alta) in Venice during November every year, Venetians have learnt to live with it. We did had an uncanny feeling about last night, but it was a surprise when the si…

Our blog post on the flood of November 2019 in #Venice #Venezia lavenessiana.com/a-disastrous...

More than five years ago, in November 2019, grandmother's #garden in #venice was badly hit by #acquaalta (sharing the story from our blog in the comment). Since then, the garden's been making progress, we'll be posting a couple of photos in the days to come🍃
#venezia #beforeandafter #gardeninvenice

Yes, Santa Maria del Giglio is closed until 30 November, because it takes a few days to remove the pontoon bridge

You can also see that in the 1920s, the pontoon bridge was set up next to Punta della Dogana, which is its original position (that is, not crossing the Grand Canal between San Gregorio and SM del Giglio, as it does in our times). #festadellasalute #venezia #storiadivenezia #canalgrande

People crossing the pontoon bridge over the Grand Canal on 21 November sometime in the 1920s.

What the pontoon bridge over the Grand Canal during #festadellasalute looked like in the 1920s. In the background, you can make out trabaccolo boats.
Photo by Mariano Fortuny, recently shared on IG by Museo di Palazzo #Fortuny.
#venice #venezia #history #photography #venedig #venise

Buona Festa della Salute ❤️

Flowers of the season in #Venice today, herbs like thyme and rosemary, and the first Helleborus ("snow roses") ushering in #winter
Angolo Fiorito, Campo San Vidal
#venezia #florist #italia #italy

Thousands of candles illuminate the dark Basilica these days, there's never enough space to light them all at once. They will be re-used in the year to come.

La Mesopanditissa, immagine della Madonna, giunta a Venezia dall’isola di Candia il 26 febbraio 1670. Fu portata qui dal doge Morosini

Since then, Venetians have been visiting La Basilica della Salute every year on 21 November, crossing a pontoon bridge over the Grand Canal. It's a promise which had been given by the Patriarch and Venetian government back in 1630, when the first pilgrimage took place.
#venezia #venice

BUONA FESTA DELLA SALUTE
Today in #Venice, we celebrate 🌹The Feast of Health🌹
In 1630/31, the City + Lagoon was hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, which lasted 14 months, and during which 46,000 people died
=> more in the🧵 below
#venezia #festadellasalute #venedig #venise #venecia