DEVELOPMENT: THE GOLD OF VENICE

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Nicola Pittarello

Coproduced by SD Cinematografica and Venicefilm

52 Min.

UHD

€ 45.00

There is a story that few people know, that of the relationship between the Republic of Venice and its land possessions. It is above all the need to stock up on timber to push the Serenissima, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to expand inland. And it is the great challenge with the Ottoman Empire for supremacy over the Mediterranean that fuels this need. In the Venetian, Friulian and Istrian woods, Venice could in fact find the best wood, the essential raw material to build the warships it needed in view of a decisive clash with the Turks, which took place in 1571 in the famous Battle of Lepanto. To preserve its precious forests, Venice implements a series of practices of good land management, also giving way to a profound change of mentality. The protection of the territory becomes a real watchword, with an approach that seems to approach our current environmental sensitivity. "The Gold of Venice" is the story of this adventure and how those practices and mentality have come to this day.

Awards

SD Cinematografica was deemed worthy of a contribution of 44,250 Euro (CUP H57F20000070009) by the Veneto Region under the POR FESR 2014-2020 Axis 3 Action 3.3.2 for the production of a documentary with the provisional title "Il bosco di San Marco" directed by Nicola Pittarello.