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La Riviera Fiorita (The Flowering Riviera)
Every year on the 2nd Sunday in September
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The Brenta Riviera celebrates its flourishing past during
several local celebrations, among the most enchanting is to remember the
“Riviera Fiorita” ( The Flowering Riviera), that takes place every
year since 1977.
The parade recalls the crossing in 1574 along the Riviera by Henry III,
son of Catherine de’ Medici, who was travelling from Poland to Paris,
where he should have been crowned King of France. During the journey he
wanted to visit the Republic of Venice, in order to obtain a loan of 100
thousand escudos.
Triumphantly welcome in town, the King had already relished the Venetian
hospitality during his journey from Padua along the Brenta canal among
patrician villas, joyful crowds, musicians and noblemen who greeted him
passing by. He stopped in Mira, by the Contarini, for lunch and then in
Malcontenta, by the Foscari, for dinner.
Nowadays, as in the past, on the 2nd Sunday in September, a parade of
historical boats full of masqueraded rowers gets through the jubilant
spectators who stay on the banks of the Riviera.
Calm water, historical palaces and luxuriant gardens play as a frame to
hundreds of traditional and historical boats and to more than 1100 actors,
rowers and musicians in historical costumes.
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