St Mark's Square Clocktower

The Moors’ Clock Tower is one of the most famous and recognized architectural landmarks in Venice, standing over an arch that leads into the main shopping street of the city, the old Merceria. The Tower and its large Astronomical Clock, a masterpiece of technology and engineering, form an essential part of the very image of Venice. For more than five hundred years, they have measured out the flow of life and history within the city. Learn more >  

Doge's Place

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 signs. It is formed by three big parts that had put together the old constructions: the wind that to the South is the oldest and contains the Sala del Maggior Consiglio; the wing that faces the Square, ex Palazzo di Giustizia, contains the Sala dello Scrutinio; and the Renaissance wing hosts the Doge's residence and many government offices. Learn 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 church with an opposite orientation compare to the modern one. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, as appears nowadays, dates back to the middle of fourteenth century and got its model from SS. Giovanni e Paolo Church, that is in San Marco's Sestiere. Learn more >

La Fenice Theatre

On the night of January 29, 1996, La Fenice (Italian for Phoenix) went up in flames. The irony of fire destroying anything in this watery city was lost on the citizenry who soon learned the blaze was deliberately started by a contractor who faced stiff penalties for being behind schedule to install new fire detectors. Worse still, the canals surrounding the theatre were inaccessible to fireboats because they had been drained for cleaning. As a lone helicopter tried in vain to douse the blaze, the legendary 18th-century wood and plaster structure was lost in a matter of hours. Learn 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 a rich collection of art works by Venetian painters dating from 1300 to 1700 A.C., which offer a comprehensive panorama of Venetian Art in these centuries. Exhibited are masterpieces by:
Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Bellini, Gentile Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano Vecellio, Jacopo il Tintoretto, Paolo il Veronese, Gian Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giambattista Piazzetta, Pietro Longhi and others.

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 preserve and increase the collection, the main nucleus of the Civic Museums of Venice. The collection is hosted in Piazza San Marco, in the spaces of the Ala Napoleonica and part of the Procuraterie Nuove.The Museum proposes several itineraries to discovery of Venice art and history: the first visits the Ala Napoleonica in the splendid Neoclassic rooms; the second, through the Procuraterie Nuove, illustrates several aspects of venetian civilization; and the third includes ancient art exhibitions.

EXCURSIONS

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, ruler of Cyprus, which keeps paintings, arms dating back to the Venetian period and memorabilia, among which Caterina Cornaro's authograph will, and, finally, the E. Duse Section exhibiting photographs, letters, personal belongings and costumes once owned by the actress (1858-1924).

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 mechanical arts, and other 16th-century decorations. The Cathedral of San Liberale, situated in the vicinity, exhibits the Enthroned Madonna, outstanding altarpiece by Giorgione.

It's an hour from Venice.

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 the 19th century, among which Portrait of Sperone Speroni by Titian, Portrait of a Dominican Friar by L. Lotto, Madonna with Child by G. Bellini, and a sight by F. Guardi. The modern art gallery displays important works by Arturo Martini (more than 60 sculptures), Guglielmo Ciardi, Giovanni Apollonio and the Salce Collection with 25,000 posters dating from 1844 to 1962.