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Risotto all'Amarone: risotto with the local Amarone red wine. It is typical of the Valpolicella wine region. Risotto al tastasal : risotto made with the same seasoned ground pork used in salame and sausages ; traditionally this dish was a mean of tasting the mix before making sausages (hence the name tastasal , 'to taste salt').
Two unopened bottles of Amarone. Amarone della Valpolicella, usually known as Amarone (UK: / ˌ æ m ə ˈ r oʊ n eɪ,-n i /, [1] [2] Italian: [amaˈroːne]), is an Italian DOCG denomination of typically rich dry red wine made from the partially dried grapes of the Corvina (45–95%, of which up to 50% could be substituted with Corvinone), Rondinella (5–30%) and other approved red grape ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Amarone wines of Valpolicella experienced a spike in popularity on the world's wine market. Production of Amarone jumped from 522,320 US gallons (19,772 hectoliters) in 1972 to 1.2 million gallons (46,500 hl) by 1990. By 2000 Amarone production grew to over 3.9 million gallons (148,000 hl).
The young French general, and future ruler of France, Napoleon Bonaparte The fall of the ancient Republic of Venice was the result of a sequence of events that followed the French Revolution (Fall of the Bastille, 14 July 1789), and the subsequent French Revolutionary Wars that pitted the First French Republic against the monarchic powers of Europe, allied in the First Coalition (1792 ...
The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛt͡sja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 438 bridges. [3]
The palaces in Venice are the following: Royal Palace (Venice) Ca' da Mosto; Ca' d'Oro; Ca' Farsetti; Ca' Loredan; Ca' Pesaro; Ca' Rezzonico; Ca' Vendramin Calergi; Ca' Zenobio degli Armeni; Palazzo Adoldo; Palazzo Ariani; Palazzo Barbarigo; Palazzo Barbarigo Nani Mocenigo; Palazzi Barbaro; Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff; Palazzo Bernardo Nani ...
Stone Lion of Saint Mark above the main gate at the Arsenal Entrance to the Arsenal ca. 1860–70. Photo by Venetian photographer Carlo Ponti. Venetian Arsenal towers. The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy.