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Italy's UNESCO World Heritage site, Venice has been illuminated by Neri for 40 years

Neri has been collaborating with the Municipality of Venice for the protection of the city’s historical heritage for 40 years.

Venice is one of the few cities that has conserved intact its heritage of cast iron lighting artifacts. Since the 1980s, Neri has been collaborating with the Municipality for the restoration or reproduction of the various typologies characterizing the different zones of the city.

Back in the 1980s, Neri began working in collaboration with the city of Venice with the creation of the circular lantern, Light 600, which Neri designed on request from the city administration. This piece looks like a typical Venetian lantern from the 17th century, with rose-colored glass that was originally produced in the famous glass factories in Murano.

Light 600 is a very high-end elegant lantern in die-cast and sheet aluminum, equipped with an acrylic frosted transparent screen, two available distributions, and luminous flux up to 4,500 lm.

The city of Venice has succeeded in preserving much of its cast iron lighting equipment. Hundreds of posts and brackets, many in precarious conditions, have survived the fog and floods. For over 30 years, Neri has been helping the city administration save this unique collection of historical objects, which are of different types and were made from the mid-1800s on.

When beginning the restoration process of original posts from any Italian or foreign city, Neri takes advantage of the collaboration with the Fondazione Neri, its archives of photographs, original catalogs and comparative studies. The Foundation is a unique source of precious information to aid any type of restoration or reproduction.

The most significant and famous lamp post in the world is the three-light model that lines the two banks of the Canal Grande all the way to Piazza San Marco and then onwards to the Riva degli Schiavoni. Neri has restored over one hundred posts that are still in use.

This type of lamp post was not only restored. It was also reproduced faithfully by Neri, on request from the City Administration, to provide light in those places along the lagoon where satisfactory lighting is not available, both for aesthetic and functional reasons. This project has lasted for several years now, to improve the quality of the lighting throughout the city.

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