The Republic of Venice had its feasts and celebrations like any other state, except most of these traditions are now long gone and very often entirely forgotten.
Popular feasts
- The Festa delle Marie was a very popular event in Venice, celebrated from sometimes in the 900s until the 1370s.
- Associated with the Festa delle Marie was the annual feast of Santa Maria Formosa on February 2nd, when the doge with much ceremonial visited the church of Santa Maria Formosa.
- Of course, there was the month-long Carnival every year, until the very end of the Serenissima.
Celebrations and anniversaries
- The Festa del Redentore celebrated (and still celebrates) the end of the plague epidemic of 1575–1577.
- The Festa della Salute still celebrates the end of the last great plague epidemic of 1630–1631.
State ceremonial
- However, we’ll make another — about the elaborate, and rather curious, ceremonies around the death and burial of the Doges of Venice.
- The Festa della Sensa is an ancient celebration of the Venetian dominance of the sea, in the form of a symbolic marriage between the Venetian state and the sea.
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- Feasts and Celebrations in Venice — a list
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