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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 – Pictures of the San Michele island

San Michele is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is associated with the sestiere of Cannaregio, from which it lies a short distance northeast.

Along with neighbouring San Cristoforo della Pace, the island was a popular place for local travellers and fishermen to land. Mauro Codussi's Chiesa di San Michele in Isola of 1469, the first Renaissance church in Venice, and a monastery lie on the island, which also served for a time as a prison.

San Cristoforo was selected to become a cemetery in 1807, designed by Gian Antonio Selva, when under French occupation it was decreed that burial on the mainland (or on the main Venetian islands) was unsanitary. The canal that separated the two islands was filled in during 1836, and subsequently the larger island became known as San Michele. Bodies were carried to the island on special funeral gondolas. Among those buried there are Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Brodsky, Jean Schlumberger, Christian Doppler, Frederick Rolfe, Horatio Brown, Sergei Diaghilev, Ezra Pound, Luigi Nono, Catherine Bagration, Franco Basaglia, Paolo Cadorin, Zoran Mušič, Helenio Herrera, Emilio Vedova, and Salvador de Iturbide y Marzán. The cemetery is still in use today.

The cemetery contains 7 war graves from World War I of officers and seamen of the British merchant and Royal Navy.

Aspasia Manos was initially interred at the cemetery of Isola di San Michele. Her remains were later transferred to the Royal Cemetery Plot in the park of Tatoi Palace. Other attractions include the Cappella Emiliana chapel.

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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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