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The main cinema with its seating capacity of 1.800 is paired with a medium-sized theater for 1,200. Like an island, they are made to float in space, thereby facilitating access from all sides. The character of this element gives preeminence to the Lido-side facade, notwithstanding efforts to avoid a frontal interpretation of it.
The Palazzo del Cinema, inaugurated on 10 August 1937 for the fifth edition of the Exhibition was then made up of a simple hall and a thousand-seat cinema hall (the present Great Hall). Following the continuous success of the festival, it became necessary to expand the building, which was entrusted to Quagliata himself in 1952. The overall ...
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The Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido di Venezia is the main headquarters for the Venice International Film Festival. Built in record time in the Modernist style of the time, it was inaugurated on August 10th 1937 for the fifth edition of the Festival. Compared to the rhetorical monumentality of the nearby Casino building, the Palazzo del Cinema, which features a Hall and a 1032-seat screening ...
Designed and completed in 1937, the Palazzo del Cinema was built on the Lido. It has since been the site for every Venice Film Festival, except the three years from 1940 to 1942, when it was held outside of Venice fear of bombing that never came.
Text description provided by the architects. In 1857 the construction of the first seaside resort on the island of Lido in Venice was opening a stage of splendor for the island when parties ...
And, indeed, the Venice Film Festival is an important and significant, magical and glamorous event in which the Lido relives the splendour of its golden years, with the Palazzo del Cinema at its heart. The first edition of 1932 was held on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior, but the success of the Festival made it necessary to build a separate ...
The Palazzo del Cinema location set between the sea and the lagoon. This building, on four floors, can accommodate up to 1.017 people in the Sala Grande and has an additional four rooms able to accommodate 48 to 161 people. It has also several additional meeting rooms and a large exhibition space of over 1,000 square meters.
