When we talk of Venice come to mind images of beautiful gondolas that wander through the channels and the sweet romance that surrounds, but the fields and streets crowded with tourists hiding ancient legends, unsolved mysteries, shadows of old people who make the city in this highly disturbing its Gothic ease. It will thus following the footsteps of these puzzles that are lost in the mists of time that we will get in touch with the genius that as the new urbis Virgil will take us in the folds of time, never forget the sight of traditions such as the Grail and Cagliostro, Casanova el 'Inquisition that will change his mind on the town the nickname of "Serenissima".
THE GRAIL AND THE MYSTERIES OF SAN MARCO
The city of Venice is full of legends on ancient Christian relics also given the close economic relations with the Eastern world, and so obviously could not miss the mystical stories about Templars and the Grail, the cup in which According to legend, Joseph of Arimathea collected the blood of Christ.
The path this great relic in the city is one that leads to Constantinople, now Istanbul, a city conquered by the Crusaders and closely linked to the capital of Veneto. In particular, precisely during the Fourth Crusade knights and merchants brought to the city culture and Middle Eastern traditions as well as many treasures from the Turkish city as the four horses of copper present on the Basilica of San Marco and that they had the tradition of beautiful rubies for eyes. We know even from Constantinople would come from the Crown of Thorns of Jesus that Louis IX of France managed to escape the city to bring in France, at the Sainte Chapelle, then it would not be unthinkable that, in case it really existed, the Grail in his mystical journey had really arrived in the city.
The tradition wants it hidden in the throne of St. Peter, the seat where you would really sit the Apostle during his years at Antioch made up of a Muslim funeral stele is decorated with the verses of the Koran now in the church of San Pietro in Castello. It is said that this was then subsequently transferred to Bari, a city linked to the Venetian tradition of common interest such as the Saint Nicholas in the two cities share out the sacred relics. Some local traditions, then, they want the church of St. Barnabas had been buried the mummified body of a French crusader named Nicodemus Besant de-Mesurier, tied to the story of the translation of the mystical cup found in the area in 1612. In reality they have never been found documents about this gentleman. The mysteries related to the Christian religion is not just about relics, but also the different traditions associated al'Inquisizione and Piazza San Marco, traces of memories narrow spread in one of the most beautiful squares in Italy and are often hidden in the eyes of the common traveler. Right corner of the Basilica, for example, there is a tradition that the stone used for the executions, while watching the first columns of the porch of the nearby Palazzo Ducale, we can see two different color from the others where, according to tradition, death sentences were read and performed in the square in front of or near the Campanile.
is so wonderful that the Bell Tower that stands in the square hides too gruesome memories, it is linked to the tradition of torture in Cheb, an iron cage suspended in a vacuum in which offenders were exposed to public ridicule for long periods of challenging weather and therefore the death almost as soon oncoming release.
Also among the columns of the Ducal Palace, then, was offered the last hope of salvation, and in fact, on the side of the building that is offered to the sea was a column that still appears to stand consumed. The condemned was offered a last favor: if they were able to whirl around the same without ever falling from the narrow base on which rests, indeed impossible task.
WITCH AND THE PALACES telluric currents are then
interesting traditions connected to haunted palaces like Ca 'Dario Ca' Mocenigo Old.
The sinister reputation of the first known to the whole city, it was built by merchant John Dario and dedicated to the genius of the city as the inscription "Genius urbis Joannes Dario", written, according to some scholars, hide, anagrams, cryptic as horrible secrets: "SUB RUIN INSIDIA generic" and that is the one that will live in this house will be ruined. For some, the building stands on a node negative energies that would move the entire house, Fulcanelli define what a true philosopher's home. In fact the whole city is built on a network of telluric currents, positive and negative, so outstanding its urbanization, the Grand Canal is the representation of the dreaded snake, the symbol of the enigmatic forces in some places become very clear. The rest was normal in the past that there were benefits and evil places in the East where you can practice feng shui, that is a discipline that allows you to build a house by transposing the order of charity "great dragon" who sleeps in the basement. It will be the dragon to characterize the city, in fact look at any map we see the Grand Canal of Venice unfolds like a snake or a dragon, cutting the city into two parts exactly. Thus we have the head, "caput draconis", and a tail cauda draconis. "
At the end of it we find the island of San Giorgio, with its beautiful church, was not arbitrary if we think that in Christian tradition, the saint is St. George slaying the dragon, the snake and then to exorcise Venetian, while on the the opposite is the Basilica di San Marco, as a way to exorcise these energies.
E 'own position in the "cauda" that we find Ca' Dario, the mysterious palace whose curse affects all owners who have died of suicide or other violent death, including recently Raul Gardini and the tenor Mario del Monaco.
As for the second building, it is silent witness to the visit of the philosopher Giordano Bruno in the city, their host family Mongenigo that, after trying to steal his knowledge of alchemy, denounced him as a sorcerer to Venetian authorities forced him to repair to Rome, where then will be executed. Tradition has it that even in that building is the ghost of the heretic posters seeking justice.
ALCHEMY VENETIAN
There were many wizards, sorcerers and alchemists in the lagoon, among which, besides the aforementioned Giordano Bruno, Casanova and Cagliostro. Given the close relations with the Middle East, Venice has always been a melting pot of cultures, the name of the neighborhood "Giudecca" would seem to indicate the presence of its own first inhabitants, the Jews, always masters of alchemy and Kabbalah scholars. There are many such legends in the ancient and present new ghetto affecting the rabbis and their studies of alchemy.
In the city, then there are the alchemical knowledge of the Arabs whose traces we find in the face of the clock tower where, between the astronomical and astrological symbols are representations of Moors. More disconcerting, however, are obvious and Arabic symbols in the vicinity of the door card near the Basilica of San Marco. Here are represented in a corner of the so-called "four died," the tetrarchs Diocletian, Galerius and Constantius Massimiliano.
In fact, the tradition links these Figures alchemy as evidenced by a frieze depicting the base of the same two infants and two dragons entwined with a scroll bearing the inscription in archaic Venetian man face and tell me just what's on your mind and see what little 'captain ".
On the same side of the Basilica, there are two columns from Acre, where Christian culture and blackberry mingle in a mystical mix of images, among which three stand out for some puzzling cryptograms invocations to Allah the god of Muslims.
Among the most enigmatic characters, however, definitely stands out Casanova, magician and writer born in the town April 2, 1725 and buried in the church of St. Barnabas, although his grave were untraceable. His story "mysterious" part at the age of eight years when, to heal from a disease that forced him to keep his mouth open, his aunt took him to a witch healer. It will be then that the writer became interested in the arts of magic that brought him trouble with the Inquisition and that led him to be imprisoned in the famous "leads" from the Venetians who succeeded in a sensational escape. Surely he was in contact with the Masons and Amadeus Mozart for the realization of his "Don Giovanni" also inspired by the life of the Venetian and the famous Giuseppe Balsamo, known as the Count of Cagliostro from Aix de Provence. According to tradition the two met in the city in 1769 to exchange magical formulas and rituals and formulas for the elixir of eternal youth.
[Andrea Romanazzi - taken from
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