Festa del Redentore

The Festa del Redentore is an event held in Venice the third Sunday of July where fireworks play an important role.

[1] Andrea Palladio was commissioned, assisted by Da Ponte, to build a majestic church on the Island of Giudecca.

After the foundation stone was laid, a small wooden church was temporarily built, along with temporary bridge of barges from the Zattere, so that the Doge Sebastiano Venier could walk in procession as far as the tabernacle.

Around 10 o'clock at night, from pontoons placed nearby the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, the fireworks begin and Saint Mark's basin becomes one of the most atmospheric stages in the world.

Once the fireworks are over, the young people of the city head off to the Lido, where they sit on the sand and wait for dawn.