if you've ever wanted to watch Venice marry the sea

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here is a link to this year's ceremony, Ascension Day, June 1st, 2014. Though it isn't the Doge anymore, it's the Mayor.

(Apparently most people think the Venetians stopped doing this when there stopped being Doges. Why would you stop doing something you've been doing for a thousand years just because you haven't got a Doge, is the relevant question here. And the answer is, you don't.)

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