📜Venice Celebrations Series. #11November, San Martino.
According to the Catholic calendar today is San Martino of Tours, a Medieval knight who became Saint after donating his coat to a poor freezing man: it was November and miraculously it stopped raining and the sun shone ☀️. That's why they call it St. Martin's Summer (it's like the Indian Summer) and usually these days of November are sunny and warm 🌞
In Venice, #SanMartino day is celebrated with the traditional chocolate sweet which lies on every Venetian table☝️😋 and with children running around town, beating their pots, chanting an ancient San Martino rhyme and asking for sweets in the shops... similar to #Halloween, less scary and with deeper roots!

📸☝️In the pictures the Medieval San Martino Church in Venice #Castello (probably founded by Longobards from Ravenna town, that's why a French Saint became so popular here!) and San Martino's engraving on its façade, reproduced in the local sweet!
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📜👨‍🔬11 November 1788. Pietro Paleòcapa, an Italian scientist, engineer and later politician was born in Nese, Alzano Lombardo (BG), at the time under Venice domination. His family was of Greek origins and they decided to emigrate and live in Venice territory.
In 1840 #Paleocapa became a general manager in Venice, and oversaw the works on the rivers Brenta, Bacchiglione, Adige, Tartaro-Canalbianco-Po di Levante, the drainage of several marshy areas near #Verona and the construction of a dam in #Malamocco, Venice.

He was a patriot and believed in #Italy unification, and he played an important role in the negotiation for the 👉 annexation of Venice to the then Kingdom.

The first monument statue 📸☝️we all meet when entering Venice historical centre is dedicated to him: it was placed inside the Papadopoli Gardens, built and commissioned by the Papadopoli family in the XIX century, still today the first and largest green area🌳 we see in #SantaCroce district.
Do you remember this place?
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