Cinemas in Mestre

Cinemas in Mestre

In this page you may also find: Brief history of the cinemas in Mestre

Mestre City Plex
Seven halls of cinema of the Furlan group, all in the center of Mestre. - For infos and free reservations: tel. +39 041 980771 - www.mestrecityplex.it
Citiplex Corso: 30 Popolo Avenue - tel. +39 041 986722 - Hall Corso: 960 seats. Hall Corsino: 110 numbered seats (entrance not allowed when show already began). Digital sound, air-conditioned, bar, pop corn stand. It's also a theatre.
Cityplex Palazzo: 29 Palazzo St. - tel. +39 041 971444 - Hall 1: 239 numbered seats (entrance not allowed when show already began). Hall 2: 251 numbered seats (entrance not allowed when show already began). Digital sound, air-conditioned, pop corn stand.
Cityplex Excelsior: 14 Ferretto Square - tel. +39 041 988664 - Hall 1: 241 numbered seats (entrance not allowed when show already began). Hall 2: 140 numbered seats (entrance not allowed when show already began). Hall 3: 124 numbered seats (entrance not allowed when show already began). Digital sound, air-conditioned, bar, pop corn stand, accessible for disabled persons.

Cinestar Mestre
Colombara St. (Mestre west). Multiscreen (12 cinemas with maxiscreen and 1 maxiscreen iWerks©) that is in Mestre, in the zone of Marghera, close to the commercial center Leroy Merlin and to Metro - tel. +39 041 2527811 - fax +39 041 2527850 - mestre@cinestar.it - www.cinestar.it

Circuito Cinema
Office of cinematographical activities of the Commune of Venice (Videoteca Pasinetti, 1991 S.Stae - Venice)
Dante d'essai: 12 Sernaglia St. - tel. +39 041 5381655
Videoteca di Mestre: Cultural Center Candiani, 7 Candiani Square - tel. +39 041 2386138

Cinema Theatre Aurora
2 Saint Antonio Square, Marghera (Mestre south) - tel. +39 041 923159 - it's also a theatre

Cinema Piave
Cinema forbidden to less-than-18-aged - Premuda St. - tel. +39 041 989101

Near Mestre (Marcon): Warner Village, near the Valecenter of Enrico Mattei St. in Marcon - tel. +39 041 5961111 - www.warnervillage.it

Near Mestre (Spinea): Cinema Ai Bersaglieri, property of Silvio Nalesso, 221 Roma St., Spinea - tel. +39 041 992500

Linked pages: Theatres

Brief history of the cinemas in Mestre

The first picture hall of Mestre was installed in 1905 or in 1906 in a building in the square today called Ferretto, more precisely in the actual Matter Small Square, between the Tower of the Clock and the building at the age occupied by the Iris Bar.
In 1908 or in 1911 the Cinema Excelsior, in liberty style, was built. From 1913 the movies were screened by snatches also in the Toniolo Theatre.
At least since 1928 the Cinema Marconi had been existing in Palazzo St. in Mestre, after being bought by the Furlan family in 1932; in 1989 it was interily restored, getting two different picture halls, and its name was changed into Cinema Palazzo.
The greatest cinema of Mestre is today the Cinema Theatre Corso, that was inaugurated in 1949 under the name of Cinema Impero; at the age there were controversies by someone who thought that it had been built in a too suburban place, although it could sound paradoxical today, as it's nowadays in a very central area, after the fast building growth of the 20th century in Mestre; inside it, since 1987, another picture hall was built, the Corsino, that made the Corso be the first "multihall" of Veneto.
The cinema Concordia, in Carducci St. behind the former Standa, was born as a parish cinema, it was bought by the Furlan family in 1950, then it was demoshed and rebuilt under the name of Agorà Mignon (afterwards Mignon and finally Mignon Arthouse), survived for several years before being definitively closed in 2005.
The Toniolo Theatre beame again also a Cinema between 1983 and 1991.
From 1981 the Excelsior became again also a theatre and, after the restoration of 2000, is actually formed by three different halls (Excelsior 1, 2 and 3).
From 1951 a new urban quarter began to be built: "Villaggio San Marco"; in order to provide for this area also a cinema, along the homonymic avenue the Cinema San Marco was opened in 1963; but in 2006 it was closed.
The cinema Piave was bought by the Furlan family in 1933; afterwards it was sold to other owners, and it became a cinema for blue-movies before 1990.
The Cinema Dante was created and run by the Railway Dopolavoro (a club with recreational facilities), since the 20s as a recreational hall, which sometimes movies were screened in, untill, from 1948, a stable motion-picture projector was put in it; between 1950 and 1965 the omnipresent Furlan family took part also in the management of the Dante; since 1982 the Cinema Dante is being part in the Circuit Cinema and is run with a joint work by the Commune of Venice.
Parish or minute cinemas were opened in the past (and sometimes still exist): they are Lux and Capitol at Carpenedo, Disney in Piave St., Eden at Chirignago, Sociale at Favaro, Bevilacqua at Zelarino, Verdi at Gazzera, Marco Polo at Campalto.
Among these we remind the in particular the small cinema of Giustizia St., the "Tag", built in 1976 and closed in 1982 for safety reasons.
In the last years also in Mestre as everywhere some of the central cinemas has been closing and suburb multi-halls are increasing, such as, since 2000, the Warner Village at Marcon (at the north-east of Mestre) and, since 2004, the Cinestar Mestre at Mestre south-west (Marghera).

Bibliography and further informations:

Alessandro CUK, Una famiglia e il cinema. Cento anni a Mestre, Mestre, Alcione Editore, 2005