A new light is shining over the long bank of Giudecca and is reflected on its wide canal waters, in a row of street-lamps scanning the slow process of dense minor houses and white interruptions of Palladian churches, the fullness of industrial building long fronts and emptiness of open spaced squares. Venice splendidly keeps its aristocratic prerogatives of authenticity and uniqueness and, far from submitting to modernity, proudly preserves its old structures unchanged in the present.

Today lighting has been assured to its square by a system made up of asymmetric emission floodlights, supplied with antidazzle light-break grids, set up along the wide sides of its Square. Street lighting in the historical centre of Venice, though still far below the needs of a modern town, has had a remarkable increase these last decades, both for the extent and for the closeness of light spots. And this has been done for reasons relating to the typical safety problems of our times.

The Municipal Administration’s ambitious programme for the urban exploitation of the Isle of Giudecca (providing for the recovery of the Stucky Mill, an imposing neo-Gothic building, and the re-conversion of the ex-Dreher, ex-Ice Plant and ex-Junghans areas), included glamorous and qualifying interventions to the Isle’s public lighting system in the observance of the executive projects drawn up by the Public Lighting Service of the Venice Public Works Sector.

Cast-iron chandeliers, realized by Ghisamestieri from patterns owned by the Municipal Administration, have been installed with one lantern or three lanterns in accordance with the section variable width.