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A week in Venice – Pictures of our flight from Paris to Venice | A week in Venice – Discovering the Cannaregio district | A week in Venice – Discovering San Polo & Santa Croce districts | A week in Venice – Pictures taken on the Grand Canal | A week in Venice – Discovering the San Marco district | A week in Venice – Visiting the Correr museum | A week in Venice – Visiting the Doge's Palace on St Mark's Square | A week in Venice – Visiting the secret parts of the Doge's Palace | A week in Venice – Visiting San Marco basilica | A week in Venice – Discovering the San Giorgio Maggiore island | A week in Venice – Discovering the Castello district | A week in Venice – Discovering the Dorsoduro district | A week in Venice – Pictures of the Torcello island | A week in Venice – Pictures of the Burano island | A week in Venice – Pictures of the San Michele island | A week in Venice – Pictures of the Murano island | A week in Venice – discovering the museum of ther Mocenigo palace | A week in Venice – Pictures of our flights from Venice to Puglia

A week in Venice – Discovering the San Giorgio Maggiore island

San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group.

This island is surrounded by Canale della Grazia, Canale della Giudecca, Saint Mark Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern lagoon. It forms part of the San Marco sestiere.
San Giorgio Maggiore was probably occupied in the Roman period; after the foundation of Venice it was called Insula Memmia after the Memmo family who owned it. By 829 it had a church consecrated to St George; thus it was designated as San Giorgio Maggiore to be distinguished from San Giorgio in Alga.

The San Giorgio Monastery was established in 982, when the Benedictine monk, Giovanni Morosini,[1] asked the doge Tribuno Memmo to donate the whole island for a monastery.[2] Morosini drained the island's marshes next to the church to get the ground for building, and founded the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, and became its first abbot.

San Giorgio is now best known for the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Palladio and begun in 1566. The belltower has a ring of 9 bells in C#.

In the early 19th century, after the Republic fell, the monastery was almost suppressed and the island became a free port with a new harbour built in 1812. It became the home of Venice's artillery.

San Giorgio Maggiore is now the headquarters of the Cini Foundation arts centre, known for its library and is also home to the Teatro Verde open-air theatre.

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Du 13 au 20 mai 2016 nous avons passé une semaine de rêve à Venise. C’était la première fois que nous y rendions et nous avons tenu à y rester assez de jours pour avoir le temps de découvrir les différents quartiers de cette superbe ville-musée, mais aussi plusieurs îles de la lagune, sans oublier de consacrer la journée du 15 mai à la "Vogalonga", magnifique course à la rame de 30 km sur la lagune !

La "Vogalonga" est une course mythique dont s’était la 42ème édition en 2016, mais aussi une course qui déplace pas moins de 7.000 rameurs du monde entier sur pas moins de 1.800 bateaux ! Du grand spectacle et beaucoup de passion et de joie partagée par les participants !

Sur ce sujet, voir ma galerie de photos de cette course à l’adresse suivante : https://pbase.com/debetencourt/vogaloga_2016

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