Venice & the Veneto
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This is a guide to Venice, to its lagoon and to nearby Veneto cities of Verona, Vicenza and Padua.
There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions.
It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains active links to the web sites of train, navigation companies and museums, so you can with a click from the guide check the latest schedule and even buy the tickets.
It has also listing of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants. There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide.
Enrico Massetti
Enrico Massetti nació en Milán, Italia, donde vivió durante más de 30 años, visitando innumerables destinos turísticos, desde las montañas de los Alpes hasta el mar de Sicilia. Ahora vive en Washington, Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, visita regularmente su ciudad natal y disfruta recorriendo todos los lugares de su país, especialmente aquellos a los que puede llegar en transporte público. Puede contactar con Enrico en enrico@italian-visits.com.
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Venice & the Veneto - Enrico Massetti
Venice & the Veneto
Enrico Massetti
Copyright Enrico Massetti 2016
Published by Enrico Massetti
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Venice in two, three, or more days
Canal Grande
We will not attempt to rehearse the glorious history or list the countless treasures of this unique city. We will merely outline a tour in which we have tried the arduous undertaking of offering the visitor the best of Venice in two days. The itinerary can be extended by spending more time in the museums while following the same layout. You can also add a day in the Lagoon Islands.
To try and mention all the streets would be impossible; the various stages of our tour will serve as reference points instead of asking the helpful and patient Venetians for the right direction. Don’t be depressed if you lose the way; it also happens to them.
This is the itinerary to follow if you have at least two full days in Venice. I say that because many of you will be arriving in Venice by plane or by train, in which case—sad to say—on that first day, you don't have a full day to spend here since much of the morning will be spent traveling and finding your hotel.
If you arrive in Venice late in the day, try taking a Grand Canal cruise on the Vaporetto ending in St. Mark’s Square. These sights are more romantic and much less crowded after dark—and they provide a wonderful welcome to the city.
Venice is small. You can walk across it, head to tail, in about an hour. Nearly all your sightseeing is within a 20-minute walk of the Rialto Bridge or St. Mark's Square. Remember, Venice itself is its most magnificent sight. When you cross the bridge, following your itinerary, look both ways: you may be hit with a lovely view.
Saint Mark Square
Piazza San Marco
We start early in the morning from Piazza San Marco, the most beautiful drawing room in Europe, according to Napoleon, to avoid the midday crowds around St. Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace. Generations of artists and artisans have given it the appearance we now know through ten centuries of uninterrupted labor: today, the square strikes us as a single complex work, a masterpiece of Italian taste and imagination.
Saint Mark’s Basilica
Saint Mark Cathedral
In front of us is the Basilica di San Marco, founded in 828 and embellished uninterruptedly until the end of the 16th century. Greek and medieval, Byzantine and Tuscan, Lombard and Venetian art have contributed to its decoration, in every possible medium of expression, from mosaics to the work of goldsmiths, from sculpture to painting.
Opening hours:
Basilica: 9.45 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. - Sunday and holidays: 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (entrance free)
St. Mark's Museum: 9.45 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. (entrance: 5 €)
Pala d’Oro: 9.45 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. - Sunday and holidays: 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (entrance: 2 €)
Treasury: 9.45 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. - Sunday and holidays: 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. (entrance: 3 €)
Saint Mark’s Basilica
The Basilica is a beautiful example of Byzantine Venetian architecture. It was at one time the Doge's chapel, but it was also the mausoleum for Saint Mark, the patron saint, whose life is narrated in the golden mosaics on the walls.
With five cupolas, it was built (10 th century) to house the body of Saint Mark the Evangelist.
The facade features five portals decorated in beautiful marble and mosaics, with a terrace dividing it into two halves.
Saint Mark’s horses
Four Horses
On the terrace stand Four Horses of gilded copper (copies – the originals are now preserved inside Saint Mark's Museum - that were sent from Constantinople to Doge Enrico Dandolo in 1204.
Splendid mosaics in the atrium relate to the stories of the Bible.
The impressive interior in the form of a Greek cross contains a wealth of paintings and sculptures.
Saint Mark’s Basilica interior
Saint Mark's interior
Of particular interest are mosaics of Venetian-Byzantine origin, some of them reconstructed from drawings by Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
The Bell Tower adjacent to the basilica was once a lighthouse for ships. At the foot of the tower is a 16th-century loggia by J. Sansovino.
Doge’s Palace
Doge’s Palace
To the right of the Basilica, we go through the Porta della Carta and into the Doge’s Palace, built in the florid Gothic style typical of Venice (1303-1442). The Renaissance courtyard was designed by Antonio Rizzo (1483), who also left the two masterpieces of Venetian sculpture there, the statues of Adam and Eve (1464), now in the Doge’s Apartments.
Going up the Scala dei Giganti, we enter the incredibly lavish interior of the palace. It features carved and gilded ceilings, stuccoes, fireplaces, and carved doors. It is one of the most beautiful public residences of all time. Venetian painters, from Carpaccio to Gentile Bellini, from Titian