Posted in Curiosities on 27 March 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Spritz is the most famous Venetian alcoholic drink. It’s a tradition and really simple to prepare. Here there’s the Venetian recipe (many other north-eastern cities have it but slightly different):
Posted in Students, Turists, Venetians on 27 March 2010| Leave a Comment »
Campo Santa Margherita is (with Campo San Giacometto near Rialto) the most alive area in the city. On Saturday night, young Venetians use to hang out here. The supply of what to do is quite restrict: there are lots of special bars and pubs but anything more. Just to mention some of them, the most famous are: Orange bar, which is by accident all orange; Margaret Duchamp; Imagina Cafè; Bar Rosso, that’s the oldest one. The good company is the fun! However, Campo Santa Margherita isn’t just for Venetians: also lots of students and tourists go there to enjoy.
It’s interesting to analyse how the social rule of Campo Santa Margherita has been exploited in a economic way: in the last years, lots of “piazza al taglio” and “kekab” opened in the area around the campo and they are earning a lot thanks to the kids that take something to eat during the night.
Posted in Students on 18 March 2010| Leave a Comment »
Are you going to graduate? Start trembling! Your friends could organize something really special for you.
In order to celebrate the graduate, friends and relatives use to hang everywhere posters called papiri; they are written with a rhyme scheme and their aim is to pull the student’s leg. Friends oblige him/her to dress in a extremely strange way with fancy clothes and to show off to everybody. One of the most common jokes is to spread the person with something sticky and then to cover his/her body with i.e. plums, paper or flour. Moreover, the amazing show is supported by a typical song. Obviously, it couldn’t be a real party without refreshment; all the bars all around the campo offer this service.
Campo Santa Margherita is near to all the Venetian universities (Università Ca’ Foscari and IUAV) and it’s the meeting point of young people: for these reasons, it’s the most aspired stage for such tradition.
Posted in Venetians on 12 March 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’m going to start my analysis on how Venetian people use Campo Santa Margherita from the youngest category: children.
In the afternoon after school, kids are used to play all together outside in the “campi”, that means in the squares. The rule: no video games, just some simple objects…and technological games have a substitute: traditional games. The most common games are campanon, “elastico”, “nascondino” and finally of course sports like football, volleyball, roller-skating.
“Campanon” is a typical Venetian game. What do you need? A chalk ; a pebble. You draw some boxes on the ground, you have to hit the boxes in the centre with the pebble and jump in. Of course, the boxes could have any shape!
Campo Santa Margherita 
