VENICE - Venice is preparing to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo's death.
The municipal council has in fact approved the guidelines for the celebrations of the seventh centenary of the explorer's death, which took place on 8 January 1324.
"Today we formalized in the Giunta - comments the mayor, Luigi Brugnaro - the start of the process of setting up a Steering Committee which, as already happened for the 1600 years of Venice, will have the task of celebrating Marco Polo on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of his death. The fulcrum of the initiatives will revolve around a major exhibition organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, which we have already approved and which will take place in the Doge's Palace. An event that will begin in the spring of 2024, which we would like to continue throughout the year, and which will see exhibited works that mainly come from the rich patrimony owned by the City".
A series of events is planned around the exhibition "which will give prestige - continues Brugnaro - to the memory of one of our fellow citizens who, as the Treccani Encyclopedia quotes, is acknowledged to have written "the first reliable and complete account of the Orient and the first contribution to mutual understanding between Asia and Europe'".
