Redeemer’s Festival 18/19 July 2020
Redentore, or the Redeemer’s Festival was celebrated in Venice from July 20, 1577 when a bridge of boats was placed to allow the citizens to reach the place where the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer was being built.
The Doge Alvise Mocenigo vowed to build this church to free the city of the most terrible plague that Venice knew in its history.
Between 1575 and 1577 more than 50,000 citizens were killed, including Alvise’s successor, Doge Sebastiano venier.
The Redeemer’s Festival is the festival most felt by the city of Venice and its inhabitants. It is a Venetian tradition of over 400 years that is celebrated on the third Sunday of July on the island of Giudecca and throughout the St Mark’s Basin.The story of Redeemers’s Festival is very suggestive and knowing it will give an extra taste to the celebrations.
A whole weekend is dedicated to the festival and has a rich program of events.
This is the full program:
Friday 17 July 2020
- At 20.30 pm The festival will officially begin with the opening of the boats bridge (open until midnight on Sunday 19 July) and will possible to walk from “Fondamenta delle Zattere (Venice) to Giudecca Island
The program of celebrations will open on Saturday 18 July when the Grand Canal will be transformed into a large stage crossed in several moments by four "Freschi notturni" that will spread different music along the banks, in a path that will start from the train station, touching Punta della Dogana , up to Giudecca. In the evening still music, with concerts in some stalls in various areas of the city, thanks to the collaboration of exhibitors.
Sunday 19 July 2020
• at 4 pm start of the REDENTOR’S RACES (REGATE) in the Giudecca Canal
• at 4 pm regata of the young on 2-oars “Pupparini”
• at 4:45 regata on 2-oars “Pupparini”
• at 5:30 regata on 2 oars GONDOLE
At 7:00 - Isle of Giudecca, at the Church of the Redeemer Votive Mass
For more information visit the website: http://events.veneziaunica.it/it/Festa-Redentore-Venezia-2020
