Venice Marathon 2011 Live Streaming Online

The Venice Marathon is a marathon road race that has been held each year in Venice since 1986, usually in October. The race goes through the famous Piazza San Marco in central Venice.

This live feed is in Venice for the marathon:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/events/venice_marathon.html

Event Information:

A few rumors were already circulating the day after the last Venice marathon, but only now we are able to confirm it officially: the route of the next Venice marathon will go through St.Mark's Square. A.S.D. Venice marathon Club recently received approval from the City Council to go across the magnificent square that is the very heart of the lagoon town.

The Technical Direction of the marathon is already at work to study the alterations to the route that will be necessary to make the spectacular passage inside the square possible, a passage that will only occur in 2010, for the Special Edition of the 25th Anniversary.

About 1 km after the exit from St.Mark's Square the runners will reach the Venice marathon finish line, located - as always - in "Riva Sette Martiri".

Venice Webcam Live Feed at the 2011 Carnevale di Venezia

The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday.

This live feed is in Venice for the 2011 carnival:

Venice Carnival 2011 Live Feed

Carnival started as a time for celebration and expression throughout the classes, as wearing masks hid any form of identity between social classes. During the 1970s, the Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice, and sought to use the traditional Carnival as the centerpiece of their efforts. Today, approximately 30,000 visitors come to Venice each day for Carnivals.

Masks have always been a central feature of the Venetian carnival; traditionally people were allowed to wear them between the festival of Santo Stefano (St. Stephen's Day, December 26) and the start of the carnival season and midnight of Shrove Tuesday. They have always been around Venice. As masks were also allowed Ascension and from October 5 to Christmas, people could spend a large proportion of the year in disguise. Maskmakers (mascherari) enjoyed a special position in society, with their own laws and their own guild.

Venetian masks can be made in leather or with the original glass technique. The original masks were rather simple in design and decoration and often had a symbolic and practical function. Nowadays, most of them are made with the application of gesso and gold leaf and are all hand-painted using natural feathers and gems to decorate.

Turin Marathon 2010 Live Stream Web Cam Feed, Torino

The Turin Marathon (official name of Turin Marathon) is a marathon, since 1991 in Turin takes place, usually in in April. Regarding the distance records, he is among the fastest in Europe.

This live webcam feed is in Turin for the marathon:

Turin Marathon live webcam

Event Information:

Start and end of the trail, the clockwise direction of Turin and some neighboring municipalities leads, is on the Piazza Castello south of the Palazzo Madama. From there, first on the Via Po to the left bank of the Po. Upstream, it then goes to Moncalieri and Nicholasville. There, the route turns west to and leads to Beinasco and Orbassano, where just before the half marathon mark the route north to Rivalta and Rivoli used. The last third of the trail leads westward over Collegno back to the center of Turin, where the destination on the west side of the Palazzo Madama is.

As early as 31 October 1897 was held in Turin marathon instead of a similar maturity. On a 35 km long rail link between Turin and watershed None Cesare Ferrario won in 2:26:45 h. The first real Marathon was organized 1919th On the 42.75 km long route was victorious in 2:40:47,6 h. Valerio Arri, who at the Olympic Games 1920 Antwerp won the bronze medal in the marathon in. From 1921 to 1933, the same route every year now instead of a marathon, where Luigi Rossini (who as the barrel twice won) only with the best time achieved 2:38:23,4 h 1930th

The Marathon of the European Athletics Championships 1934in which the Finn Armas Toivonen 2:52:29,0 before the gates Enochsson Sweden and the Italians won in Genghini Aurelio should, 40 years, the last marathon in Turin stay. Only 31 March 1974 was a marathon rather than provincial level, where Giovambattista Bassi, Marco Carbone and Renzo Musso as joint first in 2:25:00, the goal achieved.

Rome Webcam - La Notte Bianca Festival 2010

The city of Rome will be open for 24 hours tonight as the traders and residents of the city stay up all night for the 2010 celebration of the arts and culture festival La Notta Bianca.

This live webcam is in Rome throughout the White Night:

Rome webcam

Event Background:

The original festival is the White Nights Festival held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The white nights is the a name given in areas of high latitude to the weeks around the summer solstice in June during which sunsets are late, sunrises are early and darkness is never complete. In Saint Petersburg, the Sun does not set until after 10 p.m., and the twilight lasts almost all night.

In 2005, Rome's Notte Bianca was held in mid-September, and the guest star was Roberto Benigni. There were similar initiatives in other cities as well. In Naples it first took place at the end of October 2005 with numerous concerts (Baglioni, Pino Daniele, 99 Posse, Almamegretta, Stadio) and theatrical and cultural events. The attendance was twice the population of Naples itself. Other Italian Notte Bianche took place in Genoa, Turin, Reggio Calabria, and Catanzaro.

Undersecretary Francesco Giro Cultural Heritage has launched an idea that probably will report a lost tradition came with the advent of Alemanno, or the White Night. In fact today the Tour said: "Now big plans for the capital Rome. Including, stresses the Secretary, another white night between 19 and 20 September to celebrate the 140 or birthday of Rome Capital.

Verona Webcam - Opera Festival 2010 Live at the Verona Arena

The 2010 Verona Opera Festival continues apace in the glorious splendour of the original open-air amphitheatre in the heart of Italy. Built in the second century, Verona's Arena di Verona is the third largest Roman amphitheatre in the world.

This live webcam is at the Verona Arena throughout the 2010 Opera Festival:

Verona Arena webcam

Location Information:

The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.

The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.

The round façade of the building was originally composed of white and pink limestone from Valpolicella; but after a major earthquake in 1117, which almost completely destroyed the structure's outer ring, except for the so-called "ala", the stone was quarried for re-use in other buildings.

The first interventions to recover the arena's function as a theatre began during the Renaissance. Some operatic performances were later mounted in the building during the 1850s, owing to its outstanding acoustics.

Vatican City Webcam, Rome, Italy

St Peter's Square in Vatican City

Saint Peter's Square (Italian: Piazza San Pietro) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome. The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace" (Norwich 1975 p 175). Bernini had been working on the interior of St. Peter's for decades; now he gave order to the space with his renowned colonnades, using the Tuscan form of Doric, the simplest order in the classical vocabulary, not to compete with the palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno, but he employed it on an unprecedented colossal scale to suit the space and evoke emotions of awe.

New Italy Webcam Views

You can travel virtually through some of the most breathtaking scenery in Italy with some of our new webcam additions - we have scenes from the Alps, the Dolomites and the Italian Riviera.

Check out the new views at:

Alpine town at Cortina d'Ampezzo and Dolomite Mountains

Mountains and Commune at Ala, Trento Province

Beach at Andora, Savona Province on the Italian Riviera

Webcam at Verona Opera House

Verona Arena, Roman Amphitheatre in Italy's Veneto region

The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.

The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.

Piazza San Marco, Venice Webcam

Piazza San Marco, also known as St Mark's Square, in central Venice

Piazza San Marco (often known in English as Saint Mark's Square), is the principal square of Venice, Italy.

A remark often attributed to Napoleon (but perhaps more correctly to Alfred de Musset) calls the Piazza San Marco "The drawing room of Europe". It is one of the few great urban spaces in a Europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic, which is confined to Venice's waterways. It is the only urban space called a piazza in Venice; the others, regardless of size, are called campi.

As the central landmark and gathering place for Venice, Piazza San Marco is extremely popular with tourists, photographers, and pigeons.