The “Presepe” or “Presepio” is truly a piece of Italy’s tradition and heritage as well as the “Presepio Vivente” living nativity scene. The Christmas re-enactment takes to the streets with human performers costumed as Joseph and Mary, the Magi, the shepherds, artisans and more. Recreating the entire village of times gone. Many Southern Italian town has […]
On Wednesday 6th of December, Palazzo Chiericati will be immersed in colors and music with the second concert of a new series of classical music called NOTE DIPINTE and organized by Associazione Trait d’Union and by the Comune di Vicenza. On a Wednesday of each month, from November 2017 until May 2018, Note DIPINTE will […]
Lucia of Syracuse (283–304), also known as Saint Lucy, or Saint Lucia (Italian: Santa Lucia), was a young Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. In medieval accounts, Saint Lucy’s eyes are gouged out prior to her execution. She is the patroness of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy, celebrated on December the 13th, Saint Lucy’s […]
Year 1263, in Bolsena in Central Italy, a Bohemian priest (whom tradition calls Peter of Prague), saw a host bleed several drops of blood while he was saying mass, a miracle that put an end to his doubts about the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. A […]
Not many people living in Vicenza know that “The Supper of St Gregory the Great” (1572), masterpiece of Paolo Caliari known as Paolo Veronese, is hanging on the rear wall of the ancient refectory of the Church of Monte Berico. It’s a big oil painting on canvas measuring 8,78 x 4,44 meters. The painting—now restored—bears […]