Sights

Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs)

Leaving the Palazzo, you will soon find your way to the Ponte dei Sospiri which leads towards the prisons. The name of the bridge refers to the sighing of the prisoners when looking at the water and the world of freedom outside their barred windows. When you follow the route over water, you will end up at the Pozzi, the cells for the real tough prisoners.

type:	Squares and Bridges
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Basilica del Redentore

The architect of this basilica, Andrea Palladio, left his architectural touch all over the place. He also made the chiesa di S. Giorgio Maggiore.

type:	Churches
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address:	Giudecca 195
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5231415

Piazza San Marco

This spacious square remains impressive to every visitor. Whether it is packed with tourists, or nearly deserted in the early morning hours, this is one of sights you will want print on your retina to remember for the rest of your life.  Besides the Basilica di San Marco, the piazza houses the Campanile (the 99 metres high tower which offers some excellent views of the city), the Torro dell'Orologio, the Palazzo Ducale and other architectural beauties.

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Chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto

Possibly built around 421, Chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto, also called San Giacometo, is considered the oldest church in Venice. Highlights include the great clock, the Gothic Portico (one of the last remaining examples in the city), and the interior design.

type:	Churches and Cathedrals
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Galleria dell'Accademia

Although the Accademia is often left out of the visitor's schedule, it would be a shame to miss this collection of Venetian paintings. The gallery exhibits an impressive specialist collection of Venitian painting from the fourteenth until the eighteenth century.

type:	Museums
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address:	Accademia, Dorsodura district
openings:	daily 9am – 2pm, Tues-Thurs 9am – 7pm, entrance € 6,20
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5222247

Museo d'Arte Moderna

type:	Museums
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address:	Santa Croce, Ca' Pesaro
openings:	10am – 4pm, closed on Mondays, L5000.
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 721127

Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Over fifty major works by Tintoretto are exhibited in this sixteenth- century building.

type:	Museums
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address:	San Polo, San Rocco
openings:	Apr-Oct: daily 9am-5.30pm / Dec-Feb: Mon-Fri 10am-1pm, Sat. and Sun. 10am-4pm / Mar-Nov daily 10am-4pm.
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5234864

Palazzo Ducale

This palace housed Venice's former governmental departments. It dates from the early ninth century, but the earliest recoverable traces are from around the 1340s. The main entrance of the palace, the Porta della Carta, is one of the most bombastic Gothic works in Venice.

type:	Palaces
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address:	Piazza di San Marco, next to the Basilica
openings:	daily, summer 9am-7pm; winter 9am-5pm.

Basilica di S.Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

This basilica houses an extraordinary art collection of the period between the 14th and the 18th century.

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address:	San Polo 3072
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5222637

Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pieta

This church of the Pietas was the one where the famous composer Vivaldi worked and taught for many years. He even managed to bring together an orchestra of 1000 teenage orphan girls! 

The inside shows several several frescoes by Tiepolo.

type:	Churches and Cathedrals
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Palazzo Grassi

type:	Palaces
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address:	San Marco
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5231680

Palazzo Giustinian Lolin

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tel:	+39 (0)41 - 786711

Palazzo Pisani (Palace)

Located between the Bridge of Rialto and the Ca'Foscari's Vault, Palazzo Pisani stands at one of the most beautiful points along the Grand Canal. The architecture is significant, due in part, to the palace’s façade, which features two levels of Gothic mulliones windows. Inside, Baroque decoration can be found throughout by the best Venetian artists of the XVIIIth Century such as Giuseppe Angeli, Gaspere Diziani, Giambattista Tiepoloi, and Jacopo Guarana. Other points of interest include the grand staircase, antique furnishings, and the palace's art collections.

type:	Palaces
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email:	info@pisanimoretta.com
tel:	+39 041 5285343
url:	www.pisanimoretta.com
address:	Between Bridge of Rialto and the Ca'Foscari's Vault

Basilica dei S. Giovanni e Paolo

Pantheon of doges and an astonishing collection of Venetian painting and sculpture.

type:	Churches
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address:	Castello 6363
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5237510

Canal Grande (The Grand Canal)

photo by: Richard J. Gaba

Grand views, galleries, museums, and beautiful Venetian Gothic style palaces -- these are just a few of the sights visitors will see while floating down the Grand Canal in a vaporetto (Venice waterbus). Another way to explore the Grand Canal is by Gondola or motorboat. The Grand Canal begins at Piazetta San Marco and ends at the rail station.

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Palazzo Labia

type:	Palaces
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address:	Cannaregio
openings:	Wed-Thru-Fri, 3pm-4pm
tel:	+39 (0)41 - 5242812

Basilica di San Marco (St. Mark's Basilica)

Acque alte - "high waters": November through February brings heavy rain and flooding, especially in Piazza San Marco
photo by: Kim Rowland

This astonishing cathedral was finished in 1094. The dark inside has been covered up under the spell of an enormous amount of relics, brought along from all over the world and also houses one of the most revered religious images of Venice, the icon of the Madonna of Nicopeia. Golden mosaics line every inch of the ceiling, while flames behind red candleholders flicker in the lamps. The Byzantine influence is evident especially on the outside facade and domes. Other points of interest include: the atrium, the baptistery, Pala d'Oro, and the Marciano Museum and Loggia dei Cavalli.

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email:	biblioteca.proc@patriarcatovenezia.it
address:	Piazza di San Marco, San Marco 328
openings:	Monday-Saturday 9:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sundays 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
tel:	+39 041 2708311
url:	www.basilicasanmarco.it
openinghours:	Monday-Saturday 9:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sundays 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Museo della Comunita' Ebraica

The Museum of the Jewish Community gives an overview of the history of the Jews in Italy from the Middle Ages throughout the Renaissance.

type:	Museums
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address:	Cannaregio 2902/b
openings:	daily 10am-5:30pm. Closed on Saturdays. L4000
tel:	+39 (0)41 - 715359

Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara

type:	Palaces
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tel:	+39 (0)41 - 5228400

Musea Archeologico

The museum, which has a collection of Greek and Roman sculpture, is situated, together with the Libreria Sansoviniana, in one of the most impressive Rennaisance buildings Sansovino created in Venice.

type:	Museums
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address:	Piazza San Marco 52
openings:	daily 10am-2pm
tel:	+39 (0)41 – 5222247