The Rowing Season

Every year from April to September, in Venice and on the lagoon, there are more than 120 regattas, in addition to the famous Historical Regatta which takes place on the first Sunday in September, contested in the characteristic style called voga alla veneta (Venetian-style rowing).

Many of these races are spontaneous; eleven are promoted by the Municipality of Venice in collaboration with the Rowers' Associations and the Co-ordination of the Rowing Clubs with the aim of keeping alive and spreading a sporting practice which originates from the very nature of the city and of the territory. Many of these regattas coincide with traditional festivities and festivals where the race once represented an occasion of not only true popular but also institutional glory.

Today the Municipality, the associations and the rowing champions are committed to renewing the old tradition, well aware of the values, and not just the sporting ones, linked to the regattas: a discipline which, together with the ethical value common to all sports, is also a way to understand and respect the lagoon environment and to rediscover the city's maritime culture.

MESTRE REGATTA - May 10th, 2009  4:30 pm
Regatta disputed on six-oar double-ended open boats.
 

SENSA REGATTA - May 24th, 2009
11:00 am
four-oared gondolas

 

S.ERASMO REGATTA - June 2, 2009
4.30 pm two-oared pupparini (very young)
5.15 pm two-oared mascarete (women)
6.00 pm two-oared pupparini

SS.G. e PAOLO REGATTA - June 21st, 2009
5.00 pm two-oared pupparini
5.45 pm one-oared gondolas (young)

MURANO REGATTA - July 5th, 2009 
4.30 pm one-oared pupparini (very young)
5.15 pm one-oared pupparini (women)
6.00 pm one-oared gondolas

MALAMOCCO REGATTA - July 12th, 2009
5.15 pm two-oared mascarete (women)
6.00 pm six-oared caorline

REDENTORE  REGATTA - July 19th, 2009
4.00 pm two-oared pupparini (very young)
4.45 pm two-oared pupparini
5.30 pm two-oared gondolas

PELLESTRINA REGATTA - August 2nd, 2009
4.30 pm two-oared pupparini (very young)
5.15 pm two-oared mascarete (women)
6.00 pm two-oared pupparini

HISTORICAL REGATTA - September 6th, 2009
  Younger rowers race two-oared pupparini 
  two-oared mascarete (women) 
  two-oared gondolini   
  six-oared caorline

BURANO REGATTA - September 20th, 2009
3.30 pm two-oared pupparini (very young)
4.15 pm two-oared mascarete (donne)
5.00 pm two-oared gondolas

VOGALONGA on Sunday, May 31, 2009

The 54 Palio of the Ancient Maritime Republics in PISA - Sunday, June 2, 2009