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Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
No trip to Venice is complete without a trip to the Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and a trip to the Island of Murano to search for Murano glass cuff links. Canal cities are your scribes favoured cities and I am off to Osaka again soon for the annual pilgrimage to that fine city. But back to Venice.
One of your scribes favourite books on Venice is "City of Falling Angels" by John Berendt. Some of you might know him from the classic Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil but it is Falling Angels that is a wonderful travelogue of Venice shortly after the wonderful Opera House La Finice burned to the ground from a tragic fire in 1996. The fire burned for over a month and was one of the great fire tragedies of our time.
They say that all of the glass produced by Murano glass makers in the two years after that tragic fire are artistic attempts to catch the colour of the flames that leapt many metres in to the sky above Venice. The glass makers of Murano, in despair that one of Venice's major landmarks was burning to the ground, over the years have all paid tribute to the wonderful building by attempting to replicate the colours of the flames that night.
The Cini Foundation is a must for the lovers of fine art and music particularly that of Giuseppe Verdi. The Cini Foundation is located on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and is a short gondola ride across from St Marks Square in Venice proper. The Giorgio Cini Foundation is a non-profit cultural institution and was constituted by Vittorio Cini, in memory of his son Giorgio, with the aim of restoring the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and of creating an international cultural centre that would re-integrate the Island into the life of Venice. A day there is a day well spent believe me.....
Todays links which predate the devastating fire of La Finice are Murano glass and were acquired in Murano on a passing trip through Venice many years ago. They are worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton shirt and a Salvatore Ferragamo silk neck tie with gondola motifs.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
No trip to Venice is complete without a trip to the Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and a trip to the Island of Murano to search for Murano glass cuff links. Canal cities are your scribes favoured cities and I am off to Osaka again soon for the annual pilgrimage to that fine city. But back to Venice.
One of your scribes favourite books on Venice is "City of Falling Angels" by John Berendt. Some of you might know him from the classic Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil but it is Falling Angels that is a wonderful travelogue of Venice shortly after the wonderful Opera House La Finice burned to the ground from a tragic fire in 1996. The fire burned for over a month and was one of the great fire tragedies of our time.
They say that all of the glass produced by Murano glass makers in the two years after that tragic fire are artistic attempts to catch the colour of the flames that leapt many metres in to the sky above Venice. The glass makers of Murano, in despair that one of Venice's major landmarks was burning to the ground, over the years have all paid tribute to the wonderful building by attempting to replicate the colours of the flames that night.
The Cini Foundation is a must for the lovers of fine art and music particularly that of Giuseppe Verdi. The Cini Foundation is located on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and is a short gondola ride across from St Marks Square in Venice proper. The Giorgio Cini Foundation is a non-profit cultural institution and was constituted by Vittorio Cini, in memory of his son Giorgio, with the aim of restoring the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and of creating an international cultural centre that would re-integrate the Island into the life of Venice. A day there is a day well spent believe me.....
Todays links which predate the devastating fire of La Finice are Murano glass and were acquired in Murano on a passing trip through Venice many years ago. They are worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton shirt and a Salvatore Ferragamo silk neck tie with gondola motifs.
Til Later
ONWARD
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