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Summary
THINGS TO KNOW
3
5
6
THINGS TO SEE
8
12
15
17
Churches
Buildings and monuments
Museums
Places and charm
THINGS TO TRY
19
20
21
THINGS TO EXPERIENCE
22
25
Events
La Dolce Vita
ITINERARIES
26
28
30
An intense weekend
Murano, Burano and Torcello: tours round
the Lagoon islands
The Brenta Riviera
32
Interesting facts
Gondolas
Gondolas are one of Venices most famous
symbols worldwide. This typical Venetian
boat is extremely ancient and is the result
of a series of extremely complex craft
techniques. A gondola is 11 meters long
and weighs 600 kilograms. In spite of its
considerable weight it is quite ease to
maneuver by just one person using a single
oar. We recommend you visit the Squero
(boatyard) at San Trovaso where gondolas
are still made today by the master craftsmen
using the ancient techniques.
By car
By plane
Churches
pm); from the train station to San Simeone
and Giuda and vice versa (until 1 pm).
Getting around the city on foot is however the
most efficient and charming way of getting to
know the city. The numbers of the streets in
Venice starts with 1 in each Sestiere and goes
upwards progressively.
Here is a short glossary that will help you
to understand the indications written on the
street signs that you will find in the city:
Calle: the typical pedestrian street that can
streta (narrow), wide or longa (lunga);
Campo: an open space that is known as a
square in other towns. In Venice, however,
there is only 1 square: San Marco;
Campiello: a small square where there is no
church;
Fondamenta: a pedestrian path that runs
alongside the canals and that can be of
various sizes;
Ruga: a variation of the French word rue, a
busy road with a lot of houses and shops;
Rio: a small internal canal. When the word
Rio is followed by the word ter (filled in)
it means that this is a road;
Salizada: the largest roads, the first to have
been asphalted;
Sotoportego: this is a dialect term for the
inside of a portico.
San Polo
Church of San Giacometto
Popular tradition considers the church of San
Giacometto to be the oldest church in Venice.
It was built thanks to the belief and talent
of a carpenter from Crete around the 5th
century, just when the first people settled on
this group of islands.
The church is very small but very pretty
and charming. There is a large clock on the
faade, built in 1410.
Santa Croce
Church of San Simeon Piccolo
This imposing church is located opposite the
Santa Lucia train station.
The Church of San Simeon Piccolo was built
at the beginning of the 18th century and was
intended to be a copy of the Pantheon in
Rome; this is why it has a large green dome,
with the statue of San Salvatore on the top.
This building has been used as an auditorium
for concerts for some time now.
Church of Santo Stae
The Church of San Stae was built on the wishes
of the Doge Alvise Mocenigo around 1709.
Its faade is full of marble decorations
and inside there are several paintings.
The sculptors involved in producing these
decorations were Tarsia, Torretto, Baratta
and Groppelli. The designer and the builder
Dorsoduro
Basilica della Salute
On October 22nd 1630, during the terrible
plague that struck Venice, the Doge Nicol
Contarini publicly declared that a church
would be built in the name of Health (salute)
as a vow to end the scourge. A year later,
in 1631, the plague was wiped out and the
Basilica della Salute was opened in 1687.
Eleven plans for the church were presented
and the one designed by Baldassare Longhena
was chosen. The design included a huge faade
that reminds one of the Palladium, with a
wonderful huge door in the center. The faade
was lifted with a number of steps to give the
church an even greater sense of grandeur.
The interior is incredibly charming due to the
severe majesty of its size. It has the central
area on an octagonal plan. On the sides, there
are a corresponding number of arches divided
up by columns. There are a number of works
of art inside the church too: Pentecost, San
Rocco and San Sebastiano, David and Goliath
and Cain and Abel by Tiziano; The Marriage of
Canaan by Tintoretto and Jonah and Samson
by Palma il Giovane.
Castello
Church of Santa Maria Formosa
The Church of Santa Maria Formosa is one of
the eight churches built in the 7th century
by San Magno, the Bishop of Oderzo. Legend
goes that the Virgin Mary appeared to him in
the form of a shapely, matron. The church
was built several times over the centuries:
in 1668 the church was rebuilt after it was
damaged during an earthquake and after
several renovations, the last reconstruction
of the entire building was carried out in the
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Basilica of San Marco
This wonderful church was built in 829 to
contain the remains of Saint Mark, the citys
patron saint and was consecrated in 1024. It
has been renovated and decorated several
time over the centuries and the Basilica is
most certainly the most spectacular church
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Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
The Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli
is almost hidden in between two ancient
palaces. It was built between 1481 and 1489
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Santa Croce
Fondaco dei Turchi
This building was originally built at the
beginning of the 13th century by Giacomo
Palmieri, the consul of Pesaro on the Atlantic
coast, who fled to Venice where he founded
one of the greatest noble families in the city:
the Pesaro family.
In 1621, the Pesaro family rented the palace
to Ottoman merchants and from then on the
palace was known as the Fondaco dei Turchi
(the Turks Warehouse).
Later, when trade with the East began to
decline, the palace was abandoned by the
Ottomans and fell into ruin. In 1880, the
Venice City Council bought the Fondaco
and renovated it, whilst maintaining the
characteristics of the original buildings, i.e.
its Venetian-Byzantine faade covered in
marble. This building has been the home of
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Palazzo Ducale
This exceptional building was the center of
Venices political, social and economic life
right from the beginning. Palazzo Ducale was
the private residence of the Doge, but it was
also the home of the Governments and the
Courts main offices . There is some proof that
the original building dates back to the first
half of the 9th century, a building that was
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Ca dOro
Palazzo Ca dOro, now home of the Franchetti
Gallery, is one of the main attractions of
Venetian Gothic architecture, built at the
beginning of the 15th century on the wishes
of Marini Contarini. The name of Ca dOro
(The Golden home) comes from the wealth of
gold leafing that once decorated its faade.
The original project was probably by the
architect Marci DAmadio, but the work was
carried out by Lombard craftsmen and then
later by Venetian ones. Ca dOro changed
owner several times and was finally bought
and renovated by the Baron Giorgio Franchetti
in the 19th century. He then donated his own
collection of paintings and this building to the
State in 1916. In 1927, the palace was turned
into a museum that now houses several works
of art by Tiziano and Tintoretto and some
Gothic and Renaissance furniture.
Dorsoduro
Ca Rezzonico
Ca Rezzonico is a large building that looks
down onto the Grand Canal and which is now
home to the Eighteenth Century Museum in
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Museums
Santa Croce
The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum
of Oriental Art.
The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum
of Oriental Art in Venice are housed in the
wonderful
seventeenth-century
building
known as Ca Pesaro, a true example of
Venetian Baroqe style, designed in 1628 by
Baldassare Longhena. The Modern Art Gallery
has an interesting collection of paintings
and sculptures by nineteenth and twentieth
century artists such as: Kilmt, Chagall,
Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, Moore, Mir,
Morandi, De Chirico, Rodin. On the second
floor there is a large collection of oriental art
pieces, divided into two sections: China and
Indonesia on one side and Japan on the other.
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Castello
San Marco
Correr Museum
The Correr Museum, which is located in the
Napoleonic Wing of Piazza San Marco and in a
part of the Procuratie, houses several items
and findings that tell the story of Venetian
art and history. In the part of the museum
that takes up the magnificent Neoclassical
rooms of the Napoleonic Wing there is a
wonderful collection of sculptures by Canova.
The part of the museum that is in the new
Procuratie holds an exhibition showing various
aspects of the city: it is possible to observe
the Serenissima trading and the traditional
Venetian festivals.
Academy
The Academy of Fine Arts was set up on
September 24th 1750, headed first by
Piazzetta and then by Tiepolo.
In 1807, a true art gallery was set up inside
it, that served two purposes: it offered
important models for the Academys students
and also housed the artistic inheritance left
by the public buildings that were dismantled
after the Venice Marine Republic fell from
power.
At the end of the Second World War, the
architect Carlo Scarpa redesigned the
Academy.
There is a full range of existing Venetian
paintings inside.
The original collection has been added to
with religious artifacts, private heirlooms,
restored paintings and paintings that were
bought elsewhere.
When you come out of the main entrance of
the Academy you can see the dellAccademia
Bridge, one of the three bridges, together
with the Rialto and the degli Scalzi bridges,
that cross over the Grand Canal.
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San Marco
Piazza San Marco
Piazza San Marco is the only Piazza in
Venice, as all the other square are given the
name Campo. From the very beginning,
Piazza San Marco was designed and built as
an extension of Palazzo Ducale and the San
Marco Basilica, the true centers of political
and social life in Venice. The space originally
taken up by the square was rather narrow
and had a canal running through it: the Rio
Batario. In 1172, the Doge Sebastiano Ziani
bought the whole area and reclaimed the
canal. He then had extension work started
which ended in the Piazza San Marco that we
now know today.
Opposite the Palazzo Ducale, and in place of
the old wharf, a small square was created
where two tall columns coming from
Constantinople were installed. A winged lion
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San Polo
Dorsoduro
Zattere
The Zattere walk is one of the most romantic
and prettiest in Venice.
Fondamenta delle Zattere begins at San
Basilio and continues alongside the Giudecca
Canal, which runs parallel to the Grand Canal,
and ends at the Punta della Salute where the
old Sea Customs house is located, a truly
charming, panoramic place from where you
can see the whole of San Marco bay and San
Giorgio island as far as the Lido.
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Shopping
of mask shops. This is another popular craft
item in Venice which are made in terracotta
or in pottery.
If you want to take some food home as a
souvenir, you can also buy some packages of
typical Venetian sweets, such as the zaeti
that can be bought in one of the many cake
shops in Venice.
Those of you who like to do famous name
shopping can instead go on a tour of the
fashion streets, the most important being
the famous Mercerie: this is Venices main
shopping street that connects Piazza San
Marco to Rialto and where you can find
boutiques such as Max Mara, Sergio Rossi,
Cartier, Krizia, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and many
others too. Calle XXII Marzo is also well
worth a visti: here you can find Bulgari, Bruno
Magli, Versace, Damiani.
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La Dolce Vita
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An intense weekend
season you can also relax sitting outside,
in the center of Piazza San Marco, listening
to the music played by the Caffs private
orchestra.
Another historical bar is Harrys Bar, which
was opened by Giuseppe Cipriani in 1931 in
a small warehouse near San Marco that soon
became one of the most famous restaurants
in the world. Many artists and writers such
as Hemingway and politicians and monarchs
have appreciated Ciprianis cooking, all of
whom then contributed to the bars legend.
Arrigo Cipriani, the inventor of the Bellini (a
cocktail made from white wine and peach
juice) made Harrys famous across the ocean
too, and reached New York.
Lovers of the opera and ballet can go to
shows at the Gran Teatro la Fenice, that was
recently rebuilt as it was and where it was
after a dreadful fire.
If you want a simpler kind of entertainment
in a more informal location, we recommend
you go on a tour of the baccari: these
typical Venetian pubs with wooden tables
and benches are full of cicchetti. Two of
the most characteristic are Do Spade and
il Volto where you can drink a famous
ombra of wine, and drink in the truly
authentic atmosphere.
If you want a place that is full of life,
we advise you to go to the Campo Santa
Margherita area that is the university and
artists area, and also the Ghetto, especially
the nearby Fondamenta della Misericordia
where there are ethnic restaurants, bars
and historical night clubs such as Paradiso
Perduto.
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