My trip to Venice In these days I have been attending the Venice Film Festival which is held at the Lido Island in front of Venice. It is a long island with a long sandy beach, beautiful liberty style villas and lots of trees. In the past, in the nineteenth century, wealthy people from round Europe used to spend their holidays here. There are still two beautiful hotels of that period. One, the Excelsior Hotel, is open to the celebrities or whoever can afford the price of their fabulous rooms, the other, The De Bains Hotel is used only for photo exhibitions or little events during the film festival. This one was the setting of a film, "La morte a Venezia" (Death in Venice), based on the Thomas Mann's novel and directed by one of the most gifted Italian directors, Luchino Visconti. The Venice Film Festival should be one of the oldest (or even the oldest!) film festival in the world. It was born before Cannes and the Oscars! It's the chance for me to take part in the preview of lots of films, from all round the world! From China, South Korea, Japan, Tunisia, Georgia, Israel, France, India, Colombia, Chile, Norway, Russia and many many others! A great and an amazing opportunity for someone who loves Cinema and watching films like me! I deeply think that the Cinema is a form of art. It's Culture. This does not mean that I can watch here some really awful or incomprehensible movies! So much that sometimes I wondered what the director would had drunk before making it! 😅 What I really love of this experience, in addition of the movies, is having brief stops, now and then, and looking at this beautiful view!