WELCOME TO VENICE

A Capital for ART and for MICROPILES (also an art)

A BRIEF HISTORY OF VENICE

BASILICA of SAN MARCO

Built between XI and XV century

THE GRAND CANAL

The seat of the Venice program is Palazzo Pesaro – Papafava, a historic building which dates back to the 14th century. The palazzo is a typical example of late Venetian-Gothic architecture and was for centuries the home of the noble Pesaro family, whose portrait by Titian can be seen at the Frari Church.

In 1625, Pesarina Pesaro married Bonifazio Papafava and the Palazzo passed to the powerful Papafava family that originated from the mainland.

For centuries the building was used also for cultural gatherings and even though on your way here it may have seemed to be located out of the way, the Palazzo is centrally located in the Rialto district and therefore a popular spot.

Palazzo Pesaro – Papafava

MICROPILESin

VENICE

Old timber piles

Modern micropile reinforcement

Casagrande C8 inserting Micropiles in Venice

DANIELI HOTEL

15th CenturyRestoration work

with micropiles carriedout in 1968

MANIN PALACE

16th Century

Restoration work with micropiles carried

out in 1969

SAN MARCO HOTEL

STABILZATION OF TOWER AT BURANO16th Century

PONTE TRE ARCHI

17th Century

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FENICETHEATRE

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FENICE THEATRE IN VENICE

SOCIAL EVENTS AND ACCOMPANYING PERSONS

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2002

14:00 – 18:00 hrs

BUS TOUR TO CASAGRANDE FACTORY AT FONTANAFREDDA

All participants, and accompanying persons, are asked to either take a public boat or walk to Piazzale Roma where there will be two busses waiting.

Please leave your hotels or restaurant at 13:30 so that the busses can leave on time.

One bus will take delegates to the Casagrande factory where you will be accompanied on a tour of the assembly lines. We will show the manufacture of machines we make for the Geotechnical engineering industry:

• Small bore drilling rigs and accessories, used for Micropiles, Anchors, Jet grouting, Forepoling in tunnels, etc.• Large drilling machines for piling and diaphragm wall construction.

At the end of the factory tour this bus will take all delegates to Villa Manin to join the accompanying persons for a dinner at the villa offered by Casagrande.

The second bus will take accompanying persons from Piazzale Roma to Villa Manin for a tour

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2002

14:00 – 18:00 hrs

TOUR OF VILLA MANIN

ACCOMPANYING PERSONS

Villa Manin di Passariano stands at the centre of a vast agricultural holding and isone of the most prestigious historical residences in Friuli.

The building was commissioned by the Manin family to show their wealth and their firm allegiance to the Venetian Republic. Built in the mid-1600s on the order of Lodovico Manin I, last of the Venetian Dodges, the majestic Villa and its evocative surroundings are some of themost sumptuous in this noblest of Venetian provinces. In this venture Ludvico used the help of Domenico Rossi, who was inspired by the architecturalstyles of Andrea Palladio.

In 1797 the building was used by Napoleon when he signed the Campoformido treaty which decreed the end of the Republic of Venezia.

SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT

THE VIRTUOSO of the

ENSEMBLE of VENEZIA

Stefano Furini - violin soloist

Luciano Battoccchio - English horn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio in So maggior KV 580 for English horn and orchestra

Johann S. Bach: Concerto in Re minor BWV 1060 for violin, English hornand orchestra

Antonio Vivaldi: "Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione" op. 8                "Le quattro stagioni"

Tickets cost Euro 25 per person and may be purchased before the concert at the church. It is possible also to book seats with tickets purchased before

the concert.

1st June at 21:00

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2002

ACCOMPANYING PERSONS

09:00 to 13:00 walking tour of Venice with an English speaking guide.Participants are to meet in St. Mark’s square at 9:00 am in front of the twocolumns facing St. Mark's bay.

TOWARDS MODERN ART

From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso

This show represents, in a new way, the birth and development of art in the 1900s:Art which does not descend, as is generally thought today, from Manetand the impressionists, but from a french artist, Puvis de Chavannes (1824 – 1898)who is himself at the origin of another tradition.

Entry tickets cost € 8,50

“LEONARDO DA VINICI’s MACHINES”

Church of S. STAE’s (shows)S. Croce Campo di S. Stae

Actv boat: N. 1, stop at S. Stae

A show of working machines and designs of the Venetian period of Leonardo. At the show you can see about 30 models of machines in different sizes that are faithful reproductions of the designs contained in the Loenardian codes. They are machines that were designed for the building industry, mechanical andHydraulic devices and war machines.The machines, that are made of wood metal and cloth, are either scaled downor real size replicas produced by expert Florentine craftsmen.