One day in June 2004, a gondolier on the Grand Canal found a strange vase floating near the Rialto bridge. To recover realized that was holding an urn: The name of the deceased, a French lady of 55 years, was spelled out in a plate with your date of birth and death. "It was not the first nor the last in which he argues something similar happened Gianfranco Bettin, Councillor for Environment-Many people dream of rest forever in Venice.
It's something poetic, but until now it was illegal." In Italy it is forbidden to spread the ashes in nature: the elderly mother of the French, who had arrived by train from Paris to fulfill the last wish of her daughter was not investigated by the hair. Things are changing now. La Serenissima will approve next week a decree allowing "liberate" the bodily remains of the residents and foreigners in its district, on land and water.
Thereafter it will be possible to spend eternity in the city of canals. And secretly, for a bold initiative loved one, but with all the normal rituals of a funeral. The ashes may be dumped in the garden of one of three municipal cemeteries in Laguna, from a pier on the island of San Michele, which houses the historic cemetery.
"We will also select a funeral service boat," says Bettin proposed rule, for anyone who wants to rest in the sea off the Lido, a distance of 700 meters from the coast. " The three options provide for the presence of a public official, the cerimoniere. The service is intended for the Venetians and the foresti, as they are called among the channels that do not live in the city.
"People want to link the important moments of his life to this timeless beauty. Welcome here hundreds of weddings of foreigners." Woody Allen and Soon Yi were only the most famous. It is highly unlikely San Marco walk without bumping into a lady in white. After the marriage, burial. "We receive hundreds of requests from people wanting to be buried here." In their daily struggle against the stubborn and water, Venice has space problems.
Not keep the island of San Michele, where dozens of tourists visit the grave of poet Ezra Pound, the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky or musician Stravinsky. So it is the first city to collect a national law that leaves a free hand to local governments. The new rule also has an economic advantage.
A resident of the ceremony will cost about 250 euros, while for foreigners the figure will rise to 400-500 euros, as envisaged in the council. In times of cutbacks and austerity of the central government, Venice could be an example to other cities that do not reach the end of the year with its budget.
"Many expected this news," reveals Bettin. It is not just for those who have spent their lives coming home with wet feet for its water. Also excite those who have dreamed of doing, soaked streets to live among their monotonous noise of the waves or who lost a memory during a trip. The change in the law allowed to stay in Venice Serenissima forever.
Perhaps this would have started a last wistful smile to Gustav von Ascbach, star of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, before it goes limp against its sea. 
It's something poetic, but until now it was illegal." In Italy it is forbidden to spread the ashes in nature: the elderly mother of the French, who had arrived by train from Paris to fulfill the last wish of her daughter was not investigated by the hair. Things are changing now. La Serenissima will approve next week a decree allowing "liberate" the bodily remains of the residents and foreigners in its district, on land and water.
Thereafter it will be possible to spend eternity in the city of canals. And secretly, for a bold initiative loved one, but with all the normal rituals of a funeral. The ashes may be dumped in the garden of one of three municipal cemeteries in Laguna, from a pier on the island of San Michele, which houses the historic cemetery.
"We will also select a funeral service boat," says Bettin proposed rule, for anyone who wants to rest in the sea off the Lido, a distance of 700 meters from the coast. " The three options provide for the presence of a public official, the cerimoniere. The service is intended for the Venetians and the foresti, as they are called among the channels that do not live in the city.
"People want to link the important moments of his life to this timeless beauty. Welcome here hundreds of weddings of foreigners." Woody Allen and Soon Yi were only the most famous. It is highly unlikely San Marco walk without bumping into a lady in white. After the marriage, burial. "We receive hundreds of requests from people wanting to be buried here." In their daily struggle against the stubborn and water, Venice has space problems.
Not keep the island of San Michele, where dozens of tourists visit the grave of poet Ezra Pound, the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky or musician Stravinsky. So it is the first city to collect a national law that leaves a free hand to local governments. The new rule also has an economic advantage.
A resident of the ceremony will cost about 250 euros, while for foreigners the figure will rise to 400-500 euros, as envisaged in the council. In times of cutbacks and austerity of the central government, Venice could be an example to other cities that do not reach the end of the year with its budget.
"Many expected this news," reveals Bettin. It is not just for those who have spent their lives coming home with wet feet for its water. Also excite those who have dreamed of doing, soaked streets to live among their monotonous noise of the waves or who lost a memory during a trip. The change in the law allowed to stay in Venice Serenissima forever.
Perhaps this would have started a last wistful smile to Gustav von Ascbach, star of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, before it goes limp against its sea.
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