ST MARK’S SQUARE BETWEEN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES, MOMENTS, EVENTS, PEOPLE

A wonderful, dispersed exhibition of photos describing St Mark’s Square between the 19th and 20th centuries will be open there from 22 December to 12 February 2013. ‘St Mark’s Square between the 19th and 20th centuries, moments, events, people’ is being organised by the Associazione Piazza San Marco in association with the Venice institute for the history of the Resistance and contemporary society (IVESER) and the city council’s communications archive. Sixty pictures shown in various shops in St Mark’s Square by shopkeepers enthusiastically taking part in the event recount more than a century of Venetian history in its most representative place: St Mark’s Square. They offer a pathway that, as explained in the brochure presenting the exhibition, summarises the complex and varied use of the space: a vital centre in the collective identity and imagination, but also and more tangibly the place where the power and symbols of the institutional community and authority’s sense of belonging are displayed. This is another event organised by the Associazione Piazza San Marco that confirms its commitment to protecting and appreciating the St Mark’s area and to raising awareness among all guests to Venice and the local residents themselves of a place that must go back to being the artistic and social heart of Venice and once again become an integral part of this city’s ‘story’.

DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE HERE