VENICE

HISTORICAL MONUMENT

DOGE'S PALACE
Masterpiece of the gothic art, Palazzo Ducale is an impressive structure of layers of constructive and ornamental elements: from its ancient bases from the 1300's to the renaissance additions and the splendid manneristic... More >

THE FRARI CHURCH
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari surely is one of the bigger churches in Venice and an important Franciscan Architecture's example. Francescan friars got the land in 1250 by doge Jacopo Tiepolo and immediately built a little... More >

LA FENICE THEATRE
La Fenice Theatre was destroyed by a huge fire in 1996, when... More >

MUSEUMS

ACCADEMIA ART GALLERY
The Accademia Art Gallery, Venice's most important art museum, is located in the former Church and School of Santa Maria della Carità and its neighbouring convent, today seat of the Accademia for Belle Arti. The museum houses... More >

CORRER MUSEUM
The Correr Museum takes its name from Teodoro Correr, noble of an ancient venetian family, that donated his art collection to the city, together with Palazzo in San Zan Degola', where it was kept, and to further resources to... More >

MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ASOLO
Currently open to the public are the Picture Gallery gathering works dating from the 15th onwards with paintings by Bellotto, E. Benson, Maggioli, Guglielmo Talamini, and Canova, the room devoted to Queen Caterina Cornaro,... More >

EXCURSIONS

GIORGIONE'S HOUSE - CASTELFRANCO VENETO
Giorgione's house is located in a 14th-century building and contains various frescos (scenes from the Bible and landscapes ascribable to the 16th-century Veronese's workshop), a frieze with the symbols of the liberal and... More >

L. BAILO MUSEUM IN TREVISO
The museum is housed in a former 16th-century monastery and includes: prehistorical and Roman archaeological material (flints, bronze tools, Greek, Italic and Roman pottery); a painting collection with works from the 14th- to... More >ST MARK'S SQUARE CLOCKTOWER
This wonderful contraption, commissioned by the Doge Agostino Barbarigo in 1493 and constructed by Giampaolo Rainieri and his son, Giancarlo, remains today an incredible feat of mechanical precision and one of the most impressive sights of Venice... More >