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Venice
Venice (Italian: Venezia, IPA: /ve'nεttsia/, Venetian: Venesia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of the region Veneto, a population of 271,367 (census estimate January 1, 2004). Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000). The city...
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Piazza San Marco
Piazza San Marco (often known in English as St Mark's Square), is the principal square of Venice, Italy.
A remark often attributed to Napoleon (but perhaps more correctly to Alfred de Musset) calls the Piazza San Marco "The drawing room of Europe"....
Doge's Palace
The Ducal Palace is a gothic palace in Venice. In Italian it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice.
Its two most visible facades look towards the Venetian Lagoon and St Mark's Square, or rather...
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Containing principally the personal art collection of Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979), a former...
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Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is one of many bridges in Venice. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation...
Saint Mark's Basilica
Saint Mark's Basilica (Italian: Basilica di San Marco a Venezia), the cathedral church of Venice, is the most famous of the city's churches and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture. It lies on Piazza San Marco (in the San Marco...
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Teatro La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes"...
Grand Canal of Venice
The Grand Canal (Italian: Canal Grande, Venetian: Canałasso) is a canal in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, but many tourists visit it...
Il Redentore
Il Redentore, more properly Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), is Andrea Palladio's great domed church on Giudecca, one of the islands of Venice. Located on the waterfront of the Canale della Giudecca, it dominates...
San Zaccaria di Venezia
The Chiesa di San Zaccaria (St. Zacharias) is a church in Venice, dedicated to the father of John the Baptist, whose body it supposedly contains. It is a large edifice, located in the quiet Campo San Zaccaria, just off the waterfront to the south...
San Zulian
The Chiesa di San Giuliano (St Julian), commonly called San Zulian in the Venetian dialect, is a church in Venice.
It is situated on the Merceria, the main shopping street of the city. Originally a structure from the 9th century; it underwent a...
San Beneto
The Chiesa di San Benedetto (Saint Benedict) is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Generally known as San Beneto in the Venetian dialect, it is on the Campo San Benedetto in Venice. It was founded in the 11th century and rebuilt in 1685.
San Beneto...
Santa Maria Zobenigo
The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy.
The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation), is more...
San Salvador di Venezia
The Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Saviour) is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Known in Venetian dialect as San Salvador, is located on the Campo San Salvador, along the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice. The church was first...
Santo Stefano di Venezia
The Chiesa di Santo Stefano (Church of St. Stephen) is a large church at the northern end of the Campo Santo Stefano in Venice. It was founded in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th century and altered again early in the 15th century, when the...
San Nicolò da Tolentino
The Chiesa di San Nicolò da Tolentino, commonly known as the Tolentini, is a church in Venice, northern Italy, the home of the Theatines order in the city. The Theatines arrived in Venice in 1527 after the Sack of Rome. The church dedicated to Saint...
San Pantalon
The Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon in the Venetian dialect, is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It is situated on the Campo San Pantalon in Venice and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon.
San Pantalon is particularly well...
San Polo, Venice
The Chiesa di San Polo is a Catholic church in Venice, dedicated to the Apostle Paul. It gives its name to the San Polo sestiere of the city. The current Gothic church dates from the 15th century, but a church has stood on the site since the 9th...
Chiesa di San Rocco di Venezia
The Chiesa di San Rocco (Church of St Roch) is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger, but was substantially altered in 1725. The facade dates from 1765 to 1771.
St. Roch, whose relics...
San Giacomo dall'Orio
The Chiesa di San Giacomo dall'Orio (or San Giacomo Apostolo - St James the Apostle) is a church located in the middle of a residential district of Venice. The origin of the church's name is unknown. Possibilities include being named after a laurel ...
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute
The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica of St Mary of Health/Salvation), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a famous church in Venice, placed scenically at a narrow finger of land which lies between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di...
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Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro (correctly Palazzo Santa Sofia) is regarded as one of the most beautiful palazzi on the Grand Canal in Venice. One of the older palazzi, it has always been known as Ca' d'Oro (golden house) due to the gilt and polychrome external...
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Venetian Arsenal
The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) was a shipyard and naval depot that played a leading role in Venetian empire-building. It was one of the most important areas of Venice, lying in the Castello sestiere.
The Byzantine-style...
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Rialto Bridge
The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and the most famous in the city.
The first dry crossing of the Grand Canal was a pontoon...
Procuratie
The Procuratie (literally, "procuracies") are three connected buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice. They are also connected to St Mark's Clocktower. They are historic buildings over arcades, the last of them completed, to finish off the square,...
San Marco Campanile
St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San Marco in Italian) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, located in the square (piazza) of the same name. It is one of the most recognizable symbols of the city.
The tower is 98.6 metres (323...
Palazzo Foscari
The Palazzo Foscari (known in Venice as Ca' Foscari) is a palace in Venice, Italy. It was built on the waterfront of the city's Grand Canal circa 1452 by the Doge Francesco Foscari, who required its design to demonstrate his wealth and power. It was...
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Palazzo Barbarigo
Palazzo Barbarigo is a palace in Venice, Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of the city. It was originally built in the 16th century. Today it is one of the more opulent palazzi on the canal, distinguished by its mosaics of Murano glass applied in...
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Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice.
Ca' Rezzonico stands on the right bank of the canal, at the point where it is joined by the Rio di San Barnaba. The site was...
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Harry's Bar
Harry's Bar is a bar and restaurant located in Venice, Italy. It is owned by Cipriani S.A..
Harry's Bar was opened in 1931 by bartender Giuseppe Cipriani. According to the company history, Harry Pickering—a rich, young Bostonian--had been...
Accademia
The Accademia (Gallerie dell' Accademia) is a museum gallery of pre-19th century art in Venice, northern Italy. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia,...
St Mark's Clocktower
St Mark's Clocktower is a clock tower situated on St Mark's Square in Venice, adjoining the Procuratie Vecchie. It houses the most important clock in the city, St Mark's Clock (alternatively known as the Torre dell'Orologio or the Moors' Clocktower)...
Ponte delle Guglie
The Ponte delle Guglie is one of two in Venice to span the Canale di Cannaregio. It lies near the western end of the canal, by Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.
Originally a wooden structure, it was replaced by the current stone and brick bridge...
Ponte dell'Accademia
The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges in Venice to span the Grand Canal. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia galleries.
First suggested as early as 1488, a bridge was not constructed until...
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Pinacoteca querini stampalia
The Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia is an art collection and museum in Venice, Italy. Situated in the sestieri of Castello, on the left bank of the Grand Canal, it includes famous paintings as a self- portrait and Adam and Eve by Palma the Younger, a...
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice is John Ruskin's original three-volume masterpiece on Venetian art and architecture, first published from 1851-53. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work,...
Palazzo Labia
Palazzo Labia is a baroque palace in Venice, Italy. Built in the 17th-18th century, it is one of the last great palazzi of Venice. Little known outside of Italy, it is most notable for the remarkable frescoed ballroom painted between (1746-47) by...
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Ponte degli Scalzi
The Ponte degli Scalzi (or Ponte dei Scalzi), literally, "bridge of the barefoot", is one of only four bridges in Venice to span the Grand Canal.
The bridge connects the sestieri of Santa Croce and Cannaregio. On the north side, Cannaregio, are the...
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Palazzo Dandolo
Palazzo Dandolo in a palace in Venice. Now it is home to the Hotel Danieli.
It was built in 1400, by one of the Dandolo families, but whether by that of the great Doge, Enrico Dandolo, is not quite certain. In the Annali of Domenico Malipiero which...
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Museo d'Arte Erotica
The Museum of Erotic Art (Italian: Museo d'Arte Erotica) was opened in February 2006, situated a few metres from St Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. It was twinned with the Musée de l'Érotisme, in Paris and covered over 700 m² across four floors. The...
Campo San Polo
The Campo San Polo is the largest campo in Venice, Italy, the second largest Venetian public square after the Piazza San Marco.
Originally dedicated to grazing and agriculture, in 1493 it was entirely paved, a well (one of the few fountains to be...
Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi (also known as the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky) is a fine example of Venetian Classical architecture and located on the Grand Canal of Venice. It was designed by Giorgio Massari, and the building was completed between 1748-1772.
The...
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University Iuav of Venice
The University Iuav of Venice (Italian: Università Iuav di Venezia, IUAV) is a university located in Venice, Italy. It was founded in 1926 and is organized in 3 Faculties.
The University Iuav of Venice was founded as the Venice University Institute...
Stadio Pierluigi Penzo
Stadio Pierluigi Penzo is a multi-use stadium in Venice, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of F.B.C. Unione Venezia. The stadium holds 10,500 people and is geographically located at 45°25′39.94″N 12°21′49...
Biblioteca Marciana
The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (English: National Library of St Mark's) is a library and Renaissance building in Venice, northern Italy; it is one of the earliest surviving public manuscript depositories in the country, holding one of the...
San Barnaba di Venezia
Campo San Barnaba is a neighborhood in Venice, Italy. The neighborhood's church, the Church of San Barnaba, is famous for being featured in numerous films. It was the church in the film Summertime that Katharine Hepburn's character was filming when...
San Michele in Isola
San Michele in Isola is a Roman Catholic church in Venice, located on the Isola di San Michele which houses the cemetery of the city. It was rebuilt from 1469 onwards and is dedicated to Saint Michael, the holder of the scales on Judgement Day, a...
San Bartolomeo di Venezia
San Bartolomeo (Saint Bartholomew) is a church in Venice, Italy. It is near the Rialto Bridge in the sestiere, or neighborhood, of San Marco.
The church was supposedly founded in 830, and was originally dedicated to Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki....
Sant'Andrea della Zirada
Sant'Andrea della Zirada is a church and a monastery in Venice.
The church and the monastery, both dedicated to Saint Andrew, were founded in 1329 by four noblewomen on a place called "cao de zirada". The church was largely rebuilt in 1479, the most...
San Basso
San Basso is a former church and concert hall in Venice, Italy.
According to the Venetian historian Flaminio Corner, the church was erected in the year 1079. It was rebuilt after fires in 1105 and again in 1661, the latter to a design by Baldassarre...
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia was founded in Venice in 1869 at the behest of Conte Giovanni (Count John), the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family.
The site of the Foundation between San Marco and the Rialto Bridge, is...
Ca' da Mosto
The Ca' da Mosto is a thirteenth-century Venetian palace, the oldest building on the Grand Canal. It is in the Veneto-Byzantine style, with high narrow arches and distinctive capitals.
The features of the palace show its beginnings as a casa-fondaco...
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Ca' Pesaro
The Ca' Pesaro is a baroque marble palace facing the Grand Canal of Venice. Originally designed by Baldassarre Longhena in mid-17th century, the construction was completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710. The heavy use of columns contrasts with...
Museo Correr
The Museo Correr is the civic museum of Venice, located in the prominent Piazza San Marco, facing the basilica of the same name, and partially occupies and is entered by way of the Napoleonic wing of the bureaucratic buildings, or Procuratie,...
Fondaco dei Turchi
The Fondaco dei Turchi (Venetian: Fontego dei Turchi "The Turks' Inn") is a Byzantine-style palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice, northern Italy.
The palace was constructed in the first half of the 13th century by Giacomo Palmier, an exile from...
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Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo
The Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo (also called Palazzo Contarini Minelli dal Bovolo) is a small palace in Venice, best known for the external spiral staircase, with a plethora of arches, known as the Scala Contarini del Bovolo (of the snail).
The...
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San Giorgio Monastery
The San Giorgio Monastery is a Benedictine monastery in Venice, lying on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It stands next to the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, and is now the seat of Cini Foundation.
The monastery was founded in 982 AD following...
San Simeone Piccolo
The church of San Simeone Piccolo (also called San Simeone e Giuda) is a noted landmark in the sestiere of Santa Croce of Venice. In part, it is memorable, because from across the Grand Canal it faces the railroad terminal serving as entrypoint for...
Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice
Santa Maria dei Miracoli is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio, in Venice, Italy. Also known as the "marble church", it is one of the best examples of the early Venetian Renaissance including colored marble, a false colonnade on the exterior...
Bartolomeo Gradenigo
Bartolomeo Gradenigo (1259 or 1260 - December 28, 1342) was the 53rd doge of Venice from November 7, 1339 until his death.
Born in Venice to an ancient noble family, he was a rich tradesman. Gradenigo devoted to politics very early in his life,...
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore is a basilica in Venice, Italy designed by Andrea Palladio and located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Facing the Bacino di San Marco, the church plays a central role in the panorama from the Piazzetta.
The first church...
