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Best attractions in Venice
The Grand Canal is Venice's main artery, gracefully winding through the city in a large S-shape. The palaces along its banks, such as the Ca' d'Oro and the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, are reminders of the Venetian Republic's former grandeur. Serving as the heart of Venice, the Grand Canal links many of the city's most significant landmarks.
The basilica is a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture and Venice's top attraction. Known as the Church of Gold, it dazzles approximately 3 million visitors each year with over 8,000 square meters of golden mosaics and unique artworks depicting biblical scenes. A highlight is the magnificent Pala d'Oro, an altarpiece adorned with over 1,900 pearls and gemstones.
The Piazza San Marco is one of the most famous squares in the world - and rightly so. This grand piazza is surrounded by some of the most beautiful attractions of Venice, from the lavish St. Mark’s Basilica and towering Campanile to the Doge’s Palace.
As you step onto its expansive grounds, you’re walking the same stones that have hosted centuries of Venetian history, from grand processions to intimate café gatherings. Here, amid the cooing of pigeons and the distant serenade of a gondolier, you can truly feel the spirit of Venice.
The Rialto Bridge, constructed in 1591, stands as one of Venice's most iconic landmarks. This magnificent stone bridge, adorned with elegant arches and intricate details, offers beautiful views of the Grand Canal. At the time of its construction, its bold architecture was considered so audacious that some architects predicted it would eventually collapse.
The Doge's Palace, a masterpiece of Venetian Gothic architecture built in 1340, served for centuries as the residence of the Doge and the center of political power in Venice. The palace's grandeur is evident in its magnificent halls, such as the Great Council Chamber, adorned with Tintoretto's "Il Paradiso," and the gold-encrusted Scala d'Oro, showcasing the Republic's former splendor.
The Bridge of Sighs, an enclosed limestone bridge, connects the Doge’s Palace to the old prisons. Its name comes from the sighs of prisoners who caught their last glimpse of Venice through its small windows before facing their sentences. Many of its prisoners regularly drowned during high tide without ever seeing daylight again.
Murano is famous for its centuries-old glassmaking tradition. Visitors can watch the master glassblowers at work and admire unique artworks in numerous workshops. A visit to the Glass Museum is a must to learn about the history and production of Murano glass. Afterward, you'll view the souvenir pieces in the shops with newfound appreciation.
Teatro La Fenice is one of the most prestigious and opulent opera houses in the world. Despite being devastated by fires in 1836 and 1996, it was meticulously rebuilt and reopened. Hence its namesake, The Phoenix.
The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, located at the entrance to the Grand Canal, is a Baroque masterpiece built in 1630 as thanks for the end of a plague epidemic. Its impressive dome and the artistic mosaics inside captivate visitors. Notable artworks include Titian's "Marriage at Cana" and works by Tintoretto. The church is a symbolic landmark of Venice and should not be missed on any sightseeing tour.
The 98.6-meter-high St. Mark's Campanile, originally built as a lighthouse, now offers stunning views of Venice and even the Alps on clear days. Constructed in the 12th century, the tower has been rebuilt several times, most recently after collapsing in 1902. For the best experience, visit early in the morning or late in the afternoon to avoid the crowds and capture great photos.
The "Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari", commonly abbreviated to "the Frari", is a church located in the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district of Venice, Italy. It is the largest church in the city and it has the status of a minor basilica. The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, situated in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal, is one of Italy’s premier museums for 20th-century European and American art. The museum showcases Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection, featuring masterpieces by Jackson Pollock, Kadinsky, Max Ernst, and Pablo Picasso. A popular highlight of the visit is the Nasher Sculpture Garden, a serene oasis that invites visitors to pause and enjoy the art in a tranquil setting.
The Arsenale di Venezia, situated in the Castello district, is a quiet and often overlooked gem. Built in the 12th century, it was a vital shipyard and armory for the formidable Venetian navy, playing a crucial role in the city's maritime dominance.
Gallerie Dell’ Accademia houses an impressive collection of Venetian art from the 14th to the 18th century, featuring works by Titian, Tintoretto, and Bellini. The museum’s carefully curated galleries offer a comprehensive look at Venice’s artistic evolution. Spend an afternoon here to deeply appreciate the grandeur of Venetian painting and sculpture.
Founded in 1516, the Jewish ghetto in Venice was the first of its kind in Europe, symbolizing the enforced separation of the Jewish community from the rest of the city. The tall, densely packed buildings reflect the growing population that had to live within this confined space. Today, the ghetto is a vibrant center of Jewish culture. It boasts two synagogues, the Jewish Museum, and memorials dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust.
"San Giorgio Maggiore" is a 16th-century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio, and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the classical Renaissance style and its brilliant white marble gleams above the blue water of the lagoon opposite the Piazzetta di San Marco and forms the focal point of the view from every part of the Riva degli Schiavoni.
The "Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo", known in Venetian as "San Zanipolo", is a church in the Castello "sestiere" of Venice, Italy.
The "Ca' d'Oro" or "Palazzo Santa Sofia" is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palaces in the city, its name means "golden house" due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls. Since 1927, it has been used as a museum, as the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti.
The "Church of Santa Maria e San Donato" is a religious edifice located in Murano, northern Italy. It is known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and is said to contain the relics of Saint Donatus of Euroea as well as large bones behind the altar said to be the bones of a dragon slain by the saint.
"Ca' Rezzonico" is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista Tiepolo. It is a public museum dedicated to 18th-century Venice and one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
"The Clock Tower" in Venice is an early Renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco, at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. Both the tower and the clock date from the last decade of the 15th century, though the mechanism of the clock has subsequently been much altered. It was placed where the clock would be visible from the waters of the lagoon and give notice to everyone of the wealth and glory of Venice. The lower two floors of the tower make a monumental archway into the main street of the city, the Merceria, which linked the political and religious centre with the commercial and financial centre. Today it is one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
The "Church of Santa Maria Assunta" is a basilica church on the island of Torcello, Venice, northern Italy. It is a notable example of Late Paleochristian architecture, one of the most ancient religious edifices in the Veneto, and containing the earliest mosaics in the area of Venice.
The "Molino Stucky" is a Neo-Gothic building in Venice, on the western end of Giudecca island, near the ancient village Fortuny. It was designed by Ernst Wullekopf and built between 1884 and 1895 by the Swiss businessman Giovanni Stucky, whose father had married into the Italian Forti family and moved to the Veneto. It was first built as a flour mill supplied by boats across the lagoon and also operated as a pasta factory.
"Punta della Dogana" is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the "Dogana da Mar". It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: Santa Maria della Salute,, the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
The "Venice Giardini" or "Giardini della Biennale" is an area of parkland in the historic city of Venice which hosts the Venice Biennale Art Festival, a major part of the city's cultural Biennale. The gardens were created by Napoleon Bonaparte who drained an area of marshland in order to create a public garden on the banks of the Bacino di San Marco which is a narrow stretch of water dividing the gardens from St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace.
"Palazzo Grassi" is a building in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele.
The "Museo Correr" is a museum in Venice, northern Italy. Located in St. Mark's Square, Venice, it is one of the 11 civic museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. The museum extends along the southside of the square on the upper floors of the Procuratorie Nuove. With its rich and varied collections, the Museo Correr covers both the art and history of Venice.
"San Giorgio Maggiore" is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It has been much painted, featuring for example in a series by Monet.
"Giudecca" is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is part of the "sestiere" of Dorsoduro and is a locality of the "comune" of Venice.
The "Ospedale della Pietà" was a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice. Like other Venetian "ospedali", the Pietà was first established as a hospice for the needy. A group of Venetian nuns, called the Consorelle di Santa Maria dell’Umiltà, established this charitable institution for orphans and abandoned girls in the fourteenth century.
"Santa Maria dei Miracoli" is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Venice, Italy.
The church of Il Redentore on the island of Giudecca was designed by Andrea Palladio to give thanks for the end of the devastating plague of 1575-1577. Its facade, reminiscent of classical temples like the Pantheon, is both grand and inviting. Inside, the church impresses with a harmonious blend of white stucco and gray stone, adorned with masterpieces by renowned artists such as Veronese and Tintoretto. Every year, the Festa del Redentore is celebrated with a spectacular fireworks display and a procession across a temporary bridge.
The "Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs" is a porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors dating from around 300 AD. The sculptural group has been fixed to a corner of the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy since the Middle Ages. It probably formed part of the decorations of the Philadelphion in Constantinople, and was removed to Venice in 1204 or soon after.
The "Madonna dell'Orto" is a church in Venice, Italy, in the "sestiere" of Cannaregio. This was the home parish of Tintoretto and holds a number of his works as well as his tomb.
The "Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire", known as "San Pantalon" in the Venetian language, is a church in the Dorsoduro "sestiere" of Venice, Italy. It is located on the Campo San Pantalon, and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon.
"Ca' Foscari University of Venice", or simply "Ca' Foscari", is a public research university and business school in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from which it takes its name. The palace stands on the Grand Canal, between the Rialto and San Marco, in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, while the rest of the University is scattered around the historical centre. In addition to the historical centre of Venice, Ca' Foscari also has campuses in Mestre and Treviso.
The "San Giuliano Park" is a large urban park located in the municipality of Venice, in the eponymous area. It overlooks the Venetian lagoon, at the beginning of the Liberty Bridge and not far from Marco Polo Airport.
The "Ponte delle Guglie" is one of two bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Cannaregio Canal. It lies near the western end of the canal, by the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.
"Santa Maria Formosa", formally "The Church of the Purification of Mary", is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It was erected in 1492 under the design by Renaissance architect Mauro Codussi. It lies on the site of a previous church dating from the 7th century, which, according to tradition, was one of the eight founded by San Magno, bishop of Oderzo. The name "formosa" relates to an alleged appearance of the Holy Virgin disguised as a voluptuous woman.
The "Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio" is a church in Venice, Italy.
"Palazzo Pisani Moretta" is a palace situated along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, between Palazzo Tiepolo and Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza.
The "church of Santa Maria Assunta", known as "I Gesuiti", is a religious building in Venice, Italy. It is located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Campo dei Gesuiti, not far from the Fondamenta Nuove.
The "Horses of Saint Mark", also known as the "Triumphal Quadriga" or "Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople", is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga. The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy, after the sack and looting of Constantinople in 1204. They remained there until looted by Napoleon in 1797 but were returned in 1815. The sculptures have been removed from the facade and placed in the interior of St Mark's for conservation purposes, with replicas in their position on the loggia.
The "Marciana Library" or "Library of Saint Mark" is a public library in Venice, Italy. It is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositories for manuscripts in Italy and holds one of the world's most significant collections of classical texts. It is named after St Mark, the patron saint of the city.
The "Palazzo Grimani" of Santa Maria Formosa is a State museum, located in Venice in the Castello district, near Campo Santa Maria Formosa.
"Forte Marghera" is a 19th-century fortress and former barracks of the Italian Army located in Venice, about five kilometers from the historic center. The fort was part of the fortified area of Mestre and the larger defensive system of the lagoon. It is now owned by the municipality of Venice, serving as a public park and a venue for events and cultural productions. The name derives from the ancient settlement of "Marghera," which in turn gave its name to the present-day Porto Marghera.
The Murano Glass Museum on the island of Murano showcases an impressive collection that chronicles the history of glassmaking from ancient times to the present day. Visitors can admire exquisite glassworks from various eras, including delicate pieces from the Renaissance and innovative modern creations. This tranquil museum, away from the usual tourist crowds, offers fascinating insights into Venetian glassblowing. Afterwards, one appreciates the beautiful glass creations in the souvenir and craft shops even more.
The "Bauer Hotel" is a historic five-star hotel located on the north bank of the Grand Canal in the San Marco sestiere of Venice, Italy, near the Piazza San Marco. It closed in November 2022 for renovations, with plans to reopen in 2025.
"San Francesco della Vigna" is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice, northern Italy.
The "Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista" is a confraternity building located in the San Polo "sestiere" of the Italian city of Venice. Founded in the 13th century by a group of flagellants it was later to become one of the five "Scuole Grandi" of Venice. These organisations provided a variety of charitable functions in the city as well as becoming patrons of the arts. The Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista is notable for housing a relic of the true cross and for the series of paintings it commissioned from a number of famous Venetian artists depicting "Miracles of the Holy Cross". No longer in the school, these came into public ownership during the Napoleonic era and are now housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia. The scuola is open to visitors on a limited number of days, detailed on the official website.
"San Giorgio dei Greci" is a church in the "sestiere" of Castello, Venice, northern Italy. It was the center of the Scuola dei Greci, the Confraternity of the Greeks in Venice. Around this period there was a similar church in Naples called Santi Pietro e Paolo dei Greci. There was also a Greek Brotherhood of Naples.
"San Geremia" is a church in Venice, northern Italy, located in the "sestiere" of Cannaregio. The apse of the church faces the Grand Canal, between the Palazzo Labia and the Palazzo Flangini. The edifice is popular as the seat of the cult of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, whose remains are housed inside.
The "Palazzo Pesaro Orfei" or "Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei" is a historic palace in Venice, in northern Italy. It was built by the Pesaro family in the fifteenth century in Venetian Gothic style. From 1902 it was the home of Mariano Fortuny and his wife Henriette Negrin. It now houses the Museo Fortuny, and may also be called "Palazzo Fortuny".
The "Chiesa di San Moisè" is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church in Venice, northern Italy.
"Piazza Erminio Ferretto", formerly "Piazza Umberto I" and "Piazza Maggiore", is the main square of Mestre.
"Santa Maria di Nazareth" is a Roman Catholic Carmelite church in Venice, northern Italy. It is also called "Church of the Scalzi" being the seat in the city of the Discalced Carmelites religious order. Located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, near Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, it was built in the mid-17th century to the designs of Baldassarre Longhena and completed in the last decades of that century.
The "Casinò di Venezia" was founded in 1638 and is recognized as the oldest gaming house in the world. [http://www.arte.it/guida-arte/venezia/in-citta/locale/casin%C3%B2-di-venezia-5645 www.arte.it]
The "Palazzo Dario " is a palace located between the Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff and the narrow Rio delle Torreselle on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, of the city of Venice, Italy. The palace was built in the Venetian Gothic style and was renovated in Renaissance style.Palazzo Dario, Venice. JC-R.Net
"Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia" is a museum of natural history housed in Fondaco dei Turchi, located on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. Its collections relate mainly to the natural history of the Venetian lagoon that surrounds the city. Today it is one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
The "Church of San Zaccaria" is a 15th-century former monastic church in central Venice, Italy. It is a large edifice, located in the Campo San Zaccaria, just off the waterfront to the southeast of Piazza San Marco and St Mark's Basilica. It is dedicated to St. Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist.
The "Scuola Grande di San Marco" is a building in Venice, Italy, designed by the well-known Venetian architects Pietro Lombardo, Mauro Codussi, and Bartolomeo Bon. It was originally the home to one of the Scuole Grandi of Venice, or six major confraternities, but is now the city's hospital. It faces the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city.
The "Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni" is a Renaissance sculpture in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Italy, created by Andrea del Verrocchio in 1480–1488. Portraying the condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni, it has a height of 395 cm excluding the pedestal. It is the second major equestrian statue of the Italian Renaissance, after Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata.
The "Basilica di San Pietro di Castello", commonly called "San Pietro di Castello", is a Roman Catholic minor basilica of the Patriarch of Venice located in the Castello "sestiere" of the Italian city of Venice. The present building dates from the 16th century, but a church has stood on the site since at least the 7th century. From 1451 to 1807, it was the city's cathedral church, though hardly playing the usual dominant role of a cathedral, as it was overshadowed by the "state church" of San Marco and inconveniently located. During its history, the church has undergone a number of alterations and additions by some of Venice's most prominent architects. Andrea Palladio received his first commission in the city of Venice from the Patriarch Vincenzo Diedo to rebuild the facade and interior of St Pietro, but Diedo's death delayed the project.
"San Giacomo di Rialto" is a church in the sestiere of San Polo, Venice, northern Italy. The inclusion of "Rialto" in the name distinguishes this church from San Giacomo dell'Orio which is situated in the sestiere of Santa Croce, on the same side of the Grand Canal.
"San Martino" is a 16th-century, Roman Catholic church in Burano, an island of the city of Venice, region of the Veneto, Italy. The church was reconsecrated in 1645.
The "Chiesa di San Barnaba" is a neoclassical church in the district of Dorsoduro in Venice, Italy. It is dedicated to the Apostle Saint Barnabas.
The "Teatro Goldoni" is one of the opera houses and theatres of Venice. Today it is the home of the Teatro Stabile del Veneto. The modern theatre is located near the Rialto Bridge in the historic center of Venice.
The "Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni" in Venice, northern Italy, was one of the city's confraternities, a scuola piccola located in the sestiere of Castello, Venice. Its building has been preserved.
The "Grand Hotel Excelsior" is one of the most famous hotels at Lido di Venezia. It was mentioned alongside the Grand Hotel des Bains in the 1911 novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and gained fame through the Venice International Film Festival. It is located right next to the Palazzo del Cinema and is still frequently visited by many international film stars, especially since the Grand Hotel des Bains closed in 2010.
The "M9 Museum," or "Multimedia Museum of the 20th Century," is an ethnographic and contemporary history museum located in Mestre, in the municipality of Venice.
The "Chiesa di San Sebastiano" is a 16th-century Roman Catholic church located in the Dorsoduro "sestiere" of the Italian city of Venice. The church houses a cycle of paintings by the artist Paolo Veronese, as well as paintings by Tintoretto and Titian. The church is a member of the Chorus Association of Venetian churches. It stands on the Campo di San Sebastiano by the Rio di San Basilio, close to the Giudecca Canal. It is one of the five votive churches in Venice, each one built after the passing of a plague through the city. Following construction, the church was dedicated to a saint associated with the disease; in this case St. Sebastian.
The "Piraeus Lion" is one of four lion statues on display at the Venetian Arsenal, Italy, where it was displayed as a symbol of Venice's patron saint, Saint Mark. The statue is made of white marble and stands some 3 m high. It is particularly noteworthy for two lengthy runic inscriptions on its shoulders and flanks; these were likely carved by Scandinavians sometime in the 11th century AD.Kendrick, Thomas D.. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z8NgXgRytUC A History of the Vikings]". Courier Dover Publications. p. 176.
"San Vidal" is a former church, and now an event and concert hall located at one end of the Campo Santo Stefano in the Sestiere of San Marco, where it leads into the campiello San Vidal, and from there to the Ponte dell'Accademia that spans the Grand Canal and connects to the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy.
"Campo Santo Stefano" is a city square near the Ponte dell'Accademia, in the sestiere of San Marco, Venice, Italy.
The "Casa dei Tre Oci" or "Casa di Maria" is a modern, neo-gothic palace located on the island of Giudecca of the sestiere of Dorsoduro in Venice. The facade is visible across the Giudecca Canal from the Church of the Zitelle.
"San Lorenzo" is a church building in the sestiere of Castello of Venice, northern Italy.
The "Chiesa di San Salvatore" is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Known in Venetian as "San Salvador", is located on the Campo San Salvador, along the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice. The church was first consecrated in 1177 by Pope Alexander III shortly after his reconciliation with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at nearby San Marco. The present church, however, was begun in around 1508 by Giorgio Spavento and continued after his death the following year by Tullio Lombardo, Vincenzo Scamozzi and possibly Jacopo Sansovino. They built a large hall church, formed from three Greek crosses placed end to end. Each has a dome with a lantern to let light into the cavernous interior. The facade was added in 1663 by Giuseppe Sardi.
"Giardino Papadopoli" is a terraced garden filled with shade trees in the Venetian sestiere of Santa Croce, between the Venezia Santa Lucia train station and Piazzale Roma.
The "Church of Saint Roch " is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Roch in Venice, northern Italy. It was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger, but was substantially altered in 1725. The façade dates from 1765 to 1771, and was designed by Bernardino Maccarucci. The church is one of the Plague-churches built in Venice.
The "Procuratie" are three connected buildings along the perimeter of Saint Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. Two of the buildings, the Procuratie Vecchie and the Procuratie Nuove, were constructed by the procurators of Saint Mark, the second-highest dignitaries in the government of the Republic of Venice, who were charged with administering the treasury of the Church of Saint Mark as well as the financial affairs of state wards and trust funds established on behalf of religious and charitable institutions.
The "Rialto Market" was the most important trading place in Venice. The name Rialto is derived from the Italian "rivo alto" = "the high bank." It was one of the first places in the lagoon to be settled. From its founding, trade and traffic concentrated around the Rialto.
The "Palazzo Pisani Gritti" is a Venetian Gothic palazzo located on the north side of the Grand Canal, opposite the Church of the Salute, between the Campo del Traghetto and the , in the Sestieri of San Marco, Venice, Italy. It was the residence of Doge Andrea Gritti in the 16th century. It is now the "Gritti Palace Hotel".
The "Teatro Malibran", known over its lifetime by a variety of names, beginning with the "Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo" after the nearby church, is an opera house in Venice which was inaugurated in 1678 with a production of the premiere of Carlo Pallavicino's opera "Vespasiano". By 1683, it had quickly become known as "the biggest, most beautiful and richest theatre in the city" and its operatic importance throughout the 17th and 18th centuries led to an even grander description by 1730: :A true kingdom of marvels....that with the vastness of its magnificent dimension can be rightly compared to the splendours of ancient Rome and that with the grandeur of its more than regal dramatic performances has now conquered the applause and esteem of the whole world.Lynn 2005, p. 102
The "Royal Gardens of Venice" are green areas located between St. Mark's Square and the Basin of St. Mark, in Venice.
"Columns of San Marco and San Teodoro" are two columns in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. They comprise the "Column of the Lion" and the "Column of San Todaro". The sculpture "Lion of Venice" surmounts Column of the Lion, symbolising Saint Mark the Evangelist. Saint Theodore Tiron was patron saint of Venice before he was succeeded by Saint Mark.
"Santa Maria del Rosario", commonly known as "I Gesuati", is an 18th-century Dominican church in the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, on the Giudecca canal in Venice, northern Italy. The classical style building has a well-lit interior and is exceptional in preserving its original layout and Rococo decoration intact. The church and almost all its sculpture and paintings were created within a thirty-year period: construction began in 1725, the church was consecrated in 1743, and the last sculptural decoration was in place by 1755.
"Murano Lighthouse" is an active lighthouse located in the south east part of the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon on the Adriatic Sea.
The "Museo Storico Navale" is a naval history museum located in the Castello district of Venice, near the Venetian Arsenal. The museum was established by the Regia Marina in 1919. Its collections include items relating to the naval and maritime history of Venice, and it has a large number of ship models and weapons on display.
"San Nicolò dei Mendicoli" is a church, which is located in the sestiere of Dorsoduro in Venice.
The "Fondazione Querini Stampalia" is a cultural institution in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family, Conte Giovanni Querini. Architect Carlo Scarpa designed interior, exterior, and garden elements and spaces on the ground floor of the historic building.
"Santa Maria dei Carmini", also called "Santa Maria del Carmelo" and commonly known simply as the "Carmini", is a large Roman Catholic church in the sestiere, or neighbourhood, of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy. It nestles against the former "Scuola Grande di Santa Maria del Carmelo", also known as the "Scuola dei Carmini". This charitable confraternity was officially founded in 1597, and arose from a lay women's charitable association, the "Pinzocchere dei Carmini". The members of this lay group were associated as tertiaries to the neighbouring Carmelite monastery. They were responsible for stitching the scapulars for the Carmelites.
"San Simeone Piccolo" is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce in Venice, northern Italy. From across the Grand Canal it faces the railroad terminal serving as entrypoint for most visitors to the city.
"Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo" is a city square in Venice, Italy.