Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore
The Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore occupies the island facing St Mark's Square in Venice: an ancient Benedictine monastery remade by Andrea Palladio and Baldassare Longhena, next to the famous Palladian basilica. Today it is the home of the...
Marciana National Library
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana is one of the oldest public libraries still in existence. Its finest building, the Libreria Sansoviniana, looks onto the Piazzetta di San Marco, opposite the Doge's Palace, and was built by Jacopo Sansovino...
Church of San Francesco della Vigna
Planned by J. Sansovino and built in the 1st half of the 16th century, this church has an elegant facade realised on a design by Andrea Palladio and a series of three cloisters. In the interior, precious paintings including works by D....
Palazzo Fortuny Museum
Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny's residence-museum. Fabrics, objects, and antiques furniture
The collections within the museum comprise an extensive number of pieces and materials which reflect the various fields investigated in the...
Church of San Sebastiano
A 16th century church, notable for the extraordinary cycle of paintings by Paolo Veronese that decorates the entire ceiling, the walls and the choir, as well as the organ casing doors. These paintings by the great artist from Verona - whose tomb...
Church of San Giacomo di Rialto
This is a very early church, perhaps the oldest in Venice, whose foundation is probably related to the market that started at the Rialto in 1097.
What shows this relation is the 12th century inscription on the exterior of the apse, that bade...
Pinacoteca - Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni
Accademia Bridge
The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of the four bridges across the Grand Canal, the southernmost. It is made of wood, with a single 48-meter span, and connects Campo San Vidal to the side of the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Dorsoduro.
From the...
Querini Stampalia Foundation Museum
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is at once a library, a house museum and a place of modern architecture, in a 16th-century palace in the Castello district. Here you pass from 18th-century Venice to Carlo Scarpa in the space of a flight of...
Scuola Grande dei Carmini - Museum
The Scuola Grande dei Carmini is a Baroque palace in Dorsoduro, on the corner between Campo Santa Margherita and Campo dei Carmini. It was the seat of a lay confraternity devoted to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and it holds one of Giambattista...
Squero di San Trovaso
A characteristic old boatyard (squero) dating from the 17th century and located on the rio - or little canal - of San Trovaso. In a particularly picturesque position, it is one of the last traditional squeri still working in Venice.
Once it...
Campo Santa Margherita
Palazzo Labia
A sumptuous palace commissioned by the wealthy Labia family in the 18th century with a splendid cycle of frescoes by G.B. Tiepolo. The main salon where Tiepolo painted scenes of the life of Cleopatra is particularly interesting: in one of these,...
Church of Santa Maria dei Carmini
This 14th century church produces an awe-inspiring effect in the interior, despite later renovations. Here are masterpieces by artists such as Cima da Conegliano and Lorenzo Lotto, besides 18th century statues and a bronze bas-relief by the...
San Michele Church and Cemetery
Church of San Stae
Here is a baroque church with a facade bearing precious and richly decorative marble work. The paintings to be seen in the interior are significant examples of early 18th century Venetian painting. Among them are works by S. Ricci, G.B. Tiepolo,...
House of Carlo Goldoni
Birthplace of the celebrated playwright, the little Museum of Goldoni miscellany is located here as well as an interesting marionette theatre originally in Ca’ Grimani ai Servi and once held as part of the Ca’ Rezzonico collection.
The...
Calatrava Bridge
Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore
A very beautiful work by A. Palladio who did not see it completed; it has much in common with the Church of the Redentore. The interior in the form of a Latin cross with a nave and two aisles contains works by masters such as J. Tintoretto, J....
Church of Santa Maria Formosa
Rebuilt on a project by M. Codussi in the 2nd half of the 15th Century, the church has a baroque bell tower and two main facades. In the interior are paintings by the school of G. Bellini, a triptych by B. Vivarini and a splendid polyptych by J....
Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo
Overlooking Rio di San Luca, the palace owes its name to the spiral staircase (bovolo means snail shell) in the courtyard, a Lombardesque a late 15th century construction.
In the interior of the palace are important paintings, among them two...
Campo San Bartolomeo
Palazzo Pisani Moretta
A Gothic building, of splendid aspect, with spacious windows and elaborate decorative tracery (middle of the 15th century). At the beginning of the 16th century it under went restorations of the facade and in the inside.
In 1742 important...
Ca' Giustinian - La Biennale
One of Venice's prime examples from the last transition period of the Gothic era, (c.1474) this was once the home of the Patriarch of Castello (1432), the Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani. In the 16th Century additions and restorations to the façade...
Ca' Foscari
Just a few minutes from Santa Lucia Station and Piazzale Roma, it is possible to visit one of the most enchanting Venetian palazzi, Ca’ Foscari, which has delighted illustrious figures, celebrated artists and visitors from all over the world for...
Campo Santa Maria Formosa
Church of San Simeone Profeta
Founded in the 10th century it has undergone heavy alterations.
The nave and two aisles plan dates back to the original construction.
In the interior are The Presentation in the Temple by J. Palma il Giovane (the Younger) and a Last Supper...
Church of Santo Stefano
Completely reconstructed in the 14th century, the church was decorated the following century with interesting applications of flamboyant Gothic.
The portal is very beautiful, a superb example of Venetian flamboyant Gothic from Bartolomeo...
Napoleonic Gardens
The Gardens of the Biennial Exposition are the largest area of parkland in the city and date from the Napoleonic period.
Pleasant paths winding through them, they are open to the public and site of the Biennale, the important International...
Palazzo Giustinian
Church of Santa Maria di Nazareth
Built in the 17th century on the initiative of the Barefooted Carmelites on a project by Baldassarre Longhena. A masterly example of baroque art where a work by G. B. Tiepolo is still visible on the vault of the left aisle that had originally...
Pellestrina Island
Teatro Stabile del Veneto Carlo Goldoni
A theatre of 17th century origin, this is one of the oldest in Venice.
Built at the behest of the noble Vendramin family, at the close of the 19th century the theatre staged the great works of the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni, from whom...
Palazzo Barbaro in San Vidal
Church of San Geremia
This is a very early church (11th Century), with a modern facade. The Romanesque brick bell tower is interesting, and one of the oldest in Venice.
Campo San Stae
Church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli
St Nicholas of the Mendicants is one of the oldest churches of Venice (7th Century) while the bell tower is 13th century. The ancient parts consist of the central apse and the capitals of the columns, as well as the basilica-like plan; the...
Palazzo Querini Stampalia
Situated in a fine Reinassance Palace, the Picture gallery belonging to the Conte Querini Stampalia contains numerous rooms painted by Venetian artists from the 14th, 15th, 16th centuries. The restoration of the ground floor and of the palace...
Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa
An important 16th century palace, this is one of the main achievements of the Venice of the time. At the beginning of the 16th century, Antonio Grimani gave his sons the family house at Santa Maria Formosa: later, on the advice of celebrated...