Set up in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the family, Palazzo Querini Stampalia houses more than 300 paintings of Venetian, Italian and foreign schools collected over the centuries by...
Set up in 1869 at the behest of the last descendant of the family, Palazzo Querini Stampalia houses more than 300 paintings of Venetian, Italian and foreign schools collected over the centuries by...
This is the largest collection of Venetian painting, where it is possible to see the greatest works of Venetian painters, from Byzantine panels by the masters of the 1300s, through the triumphant...
This is the main canal of Venice, flowing through the city and dividing it in two. It is around 4 kilometres long, with a depth of 5 metres, beginning at the Piazzale Roma and flowing into the Basin...
With the expansion of the Serenissima Republic on the mainland during the XV century the aristocratic Venetian families began to erect their villas in the countryside. They were conceived as...
The statue, that welcomes us as soon as we land on the island, is that of the Abbot Mechitar, who settled there in 1717 with his small religious community. Since then the island has been the...
Houses an important collection of classical sculpture, notably Greek, in marble and bronze, also inscriptions, a fine collection of Roman coins and pottery, and Egyptian and Assyro-Babylonian...
This is housed in the ancient Palazzo Giustinian on Murano, which was from early times the residence of the bishops of Torcello and has served as a museum since 1861. Apart from an archaeological...
Despite the changes of the 19th century this district is pure Venice. Here the first Ghetto was established, but it was also an area where merchants from everywhere imaginable made their homes, the...
This district is the vibrant heart of the city, and a stroll through the Piazza and on amongst the campi, alleys, underpasses, stairways and theatres to the Rialto, the economic heart of the city...