It's expected this winter's romantic thriller, "The Tourist", starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Oscar for "The Lives of Others).
The film will be released in December 17 with 01 Distribution. Meanwhile, events on the web, where they were launched in the first pictures on the website of Italian cinema Mymovies.it scoring well in the first 24 hours of the 53 000 views (certified Google Analytics). And 50 000 were views on Facebook, and more than 3,300 those recorded on You Tube.
The Italian launch - following a week that American one on Yahoo.com reached in 48 hours, 200 thousand views and over one million unique visitors - was preceded by a countdown that the various sections of the site marked days, hours , minutes and seconds missing at the launch of the trailer in Italian with a primary visibility on key sections of the site, while two newsletters dedicated to the event were sent to 800 000 subscribers to the site.
Shot in the spring between Paris and Venice, "The Tourist" tells of Frank (Johnny Depp), an American tourist on holiday in Italy to leave behind a past of suffering love, which never would have imagined that this trip would upset his life. It all starts when he meets Elise (Angelina Jolie), overwhelming and mysterious woman, and was overwhelmed. But the encounter is far from random and, in pursuit of a potential romance, Frank will soon be caught and crushed in a spiral of intrigue and danger, against a backdrop of stunning Venice.
The Feast of Salute is, with no doubt, the one with the less tourist impact, recalling a real popular religious feeling.
Also such festivity, like that of Redentore, reminds us of another terrible plague occurred during the two-year period 1630-1631, and the succeeding vow made by the Doge in order to get the intercession of the Virgin.
Still nowadays on 21st November thousands of citizens march before the high altar of the majestic Salute Church in order to perpetuate the age-old bond of gratitude existing between the town and the Virgin Maria.
Those who have the opportunity to be in Venice during the day of Salute can breathe an atmosphere of genuine and heartfelt popular participation, as well as not pharisaic religiosity, but deeply related to the history and traditions of the town. Every year, for this feast, a temporary bridge on boats is built: it crosses the Canal Grande and links the areas of St. Moisè and St. Maria del Giglio (sestiere of St. Marco) to the Basilica of Longhena (sestiere of Dorsoduro), in order to allow the passage of the procession.
Tens of thousands of people go on a pilgrimage to pay homage to the Madonna and to light a church candle in order to make Her intercede for their good health. The ceaseless queue of people which on 21st November march on the votive bridge made of boats, towards the imposing Salute Church, testifies the still living and strong bond existing between the town and the Madonna.
The Venetian Lagoon is the enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Venetian language, Laguna Veneta— cognate of Latin lacus, "lake"— has provided the international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of saltwater, a lagoon.
The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area of around 550 km². It is around 8% land, including Venice itself and many smaller islands. About 11% is permanently covered by open water, or canal, as the network of dredged channels are called, while around 80% consists of mud flats, tidal shallows and salt marshes. The lagoon is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin.
It is connected to the Adriatic Sea by three inlets: the Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia inlets. Sited at the end of a largely enclosed sea, the lagoon is subject to high variations in water level, the most extreme being the spring tides known as the acqua alta (Italian for "high waters"), which regularly flood much of Venice.
The Lagoon of Venice is the most important survivor of a system of estuarine lagoons that in Roman times extended from Ravenna north to Trieste. In the sixth century, the Lagoon gave security to Romanised people fleeing invaders (mostly the Huns). Later, it provided naturally protected conditions for the growth of the Venetian Republic and its maritime empire. It still provides a base for a seaport, the Venetian Arsenal, and for fishing, as well as a limited amount of hunting and the newer industry of fish farming.
The Lagoon was formed about six to seven thousand years ago, when the marine transgression following the Ice Age flooded the upper Adriatic coastal plain. Deposition of river sediments compensated for the sinking coastal plain, and coastwise drift from the mouth of the Po tended to close tidal inlets with sand bars.
The present aspect of the Lagoon is due to human intervention. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Venetian hydraulic projects to prevent the lagoon from turning into a marsh reversed the natural evolution of the Lagoon. Pumping of aquifers since the nineteenth century has increased subsidence. Originally many of the Lagoon’s islands were marshy, but a gradual programme of drainage rendered them habitable. Many of the smaller islands are entirely artificial, while some areas around the seaport of the Mestre are also reclaimed islands. The remaining islands are essentially dunes, including those of the coastal strip (Lido, Pellestrina and Treporti).
The Venice Lagoon Atlas was first created as a printed volume with 103 thematic maps and associated explanations grouped in five sections: Geosphere, Biosphere, Anthroposphere, Protected Environments and Integrated Analysis.
It has been created in order to collect and organise data and information produced by research bodies and institutes from across the City of Venice, each of which is specialised in a particular field and, as a consequence, has only a partial vision of the Lagoon environment. The Venice Lagoon is, in fact, a complex ecosystem and therefore its study and representation need a systemic and integrated approach.
Through the Atlas, the Lagoon Nature Observatory has worked to report this thematic knowledge through a single tool which allows a multisectorial and horizontal reading of the Lagoon and, at the same time, can be easily employed by different users: city offices and departments, scientific institutions, and, above all, citizens.
Publishing the Atlas on line is therefore the natural evolution of a path that aims to make this tool accessible to an ever-increasing number of users, with a view to starting a dialogue and an information dissemination process which is capable of making citizens aware of protecting the Lagoon and its ecosystems.
