The Festa del Redentore is one of the oldest festivals in Venice and is celebrated every year on the third Sunday of July is the feast of the most appreciated and felt by the Venetians who, following a ritual that is repeated for four years, they gather inBacino di San Marco to admire and to wait for the fireworks at midnight. Despite more than four centuries have passed since its inception, the Festa del Redentore continues to unfold in thesame places and in the same way, even today, in fact, the town is linked by a bridge mounted on the Giudecca modern floating platforms. The character of the festival has remained intact: the Venetians are the real stars of the party with exquisitely preparedtheir boats, with turrets, terraces and squares lit by thousands ofvessels that are luci.Circa fifteen hundred every year gather in the basin San Marco, while you may have calculated that thirty thousand people, and the banks of the water, attending the festivalreaches its climax at midnight with fireworks, pontoons spreadover a quarter of a mile front between the Bacino di San Marco and the Giudecca Canal.
