Venice in its long and colorful history has many mysteries, but one is about to the solved. In about 1172, a good 320 years before America was discovered, the Venetians (Doge Vitale Michiele II) who had helped Byzantium win the…
On March 29, 1516 Doge of Venice, Leonardo Loredan signed the decree creating the Ghetto among the small islands in the area now known as Cannaregio. The commemoration is a tribute to the relationships betweens the Jews in the fibre of…