This is one of the most traditional festivities dating back to the year 1576 when, because of a terrible plague that was raging in the city, the Republic’s Senate vowed to build a temple on the Giudecca island in honour of Christ the Redeemer, also solemnly promising to go there in procession every year on the third Sunday in July.

The names of the famous architects Andrea Palladio and Antonio Da Ponte are associated with this church. This festivity is one of the most characteristic and best-loved by the Venetians. On the Saturday evening of boats decorated with branches and multicoloured balloons gather in the Giudecca Canal and in St. Mark’s Basin. A large crowd throngs the brightly lit banks and palace balconies to watch this festival of sounds and lights which culminates in a great firework display that produces highly evocative plays of colour on the water. Then, amid playing and singing, the boats spread out along the city’s canals to regather at dawn at the Lido to await the sunrise.

On Sunday Venitian People goes to the Church of the Redeemer through the boat bridge.

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