how to print and assembling assembleguide the the guide f Starting with the printer set-up: Fold the sheet exactly in the select A4 format centre, along an imaginary line, and change keeping the printed side to the the direction of the paper f outside, from vertical to horizontal. repeat this operation for all pages.

We can start to Now you will have a mountain of print your guide, ☺ flapping sheets in front of you, in the new and fast pdf format do not worry, we are almost PDF there, the only thing left to do, is to re-bind the whole guide by the edges of the longest sides of the sheets, with a normal Now you will have stapler (1) or, for a more printed the whole document aesthetic result, which is comprised of 23 A4 pages referring the work to a bookbinder asking for spiral binding(2).

Congratulations, you are now Suggestions “EXPERT PUBLISHERS”. When folding the sheet, we would suggest placing pressure with your fingers on the side to be folded, so that it might open up, but if you want to permanently remedy this problem, 1 2 it is enough to apply a very small amount of glue. THE CITY GUIDE

Netplan srl via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 The venice city guide

All set for a tour around the world’s most amazing city? Let us take you around Venice’s six sestieri: San Marco you’ll be surprised to discover the Pag7 secrets of the hidden city!

Castello

Pag13

Pag19 Pag39

Cannaregio Santa Croce

Pag 27 San Polo

Pag33 Dorsoduro

Summary Netplan srl via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599

3Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Venice’s History Arriving Tips: it’s easy to get lost and There are three ways of arriving: tired walking around Venice. Try buying a travel card (different By car: along the road bridge connecting Venice with the mainland. solutions are available) and make You’ll find there are different places to park: if you first turn right the most of the public water buses to Tronchetto Island, there are large car parking facilities. This is (vaporetti) to get around. The water also where the Palafenice theater has been temporarily erected to buses offer an easy way to discover replace the Fenice, which was seriously damaged by fire in 1995. all the islands and the host of By going straight into Piazzale Roma, instead, there are several interesting treasures they withhold! parking facilities with different prices, so it’s worth asking first about rates. From both parking areas you can easily reach the center by public water buses or taxi.

By plane: From Marco Polo Airport and then either by road or water by public or private transport (land- or water bus or taxi) to Piazzale Roma or St. Mark’s. When was it that this group of inhabited islands in the lagoon became known as Venice? We have to go back as far as the second half of the 6th century when the word first came into use, albeit in a somewhat By train:From the railway Station “Santa Lucia”, a large building at uncertain way initially. the beginning of the in the sestiere of Cannaregio. Between 568 and 569 the Lombards, led by Alboin, began their Close to the train station is the Ponte degli Scalzi the third and last descent in Italy across the Friuli plain. For the first time since the bridge crossing the Grand Canal. invasions by Attila and the Huns, by the Vandals and Goths, it was a whole 'race' that moved (not only soldiers but also their wives, children and the elderly). Also their descent was very slow, not Getting around transitory like that of Attila. About 50 years later, in 639, they reached Oderzo, meaning that the mainland population who sought a safe Boats in Venice: Because in the old times there were no stone refuge in the lagoons had to stay there for over two generations, wharves and few wooden landing stages, all Venetian boats have finally remaining on the various islands. These were not completed flat bottoms as they are built to be dragged up onto the land with deserted, as some poor fishermen and salt farmers lived here. The two relative ease. The Venetian people are conditioned by their different populations started then to merge, by fighting together surrounding elements and they row in a standing position, looking against nature to obtain what they needed to live: land, food and forward as one does when walking – and not under anyone’s orders. water. The origin of Venice as the city we know today can be It is the daily life of Venice that has shaped her boats. The city was summarized in a word: “Dogado” which indicates a very narrow, partly built with the aid of boats, by boat one used to come to or leave sandy and partly marshy, area between Grado and Cavarzere. In the the city. Until a few years ago the gondola was the only example of 13th century the Stato da Mar was added to the initial Dogado. Venetian boat tradition and become an obvious symbol of the Literary translated, it means “Maritime Empire”, i.e. the Venetian tourists Venice, but it is the end result of a precise and complex possessions in the sea, along the Adriatic coast and the Aegean sea. To technology. The process of boat building used in the Venetians mention merely the most important ones: Crete (Candia), Cyprus and squeri (boat building yards) is the outcome of a very ancient Corfù. in the 15th century, during the successful expansion that began tradition; no matter what the size of the boat, or even of the ship, in the first half of the 15 century by Doge Francesco Foscari, the Stato the basics steps were the same. da terra (or “Mainland State”) was added to the initial Dogado and Stato da Mar. This “state” comprised the Venetian possessions on the High water: very often during the fall, especially in October and mainland and spread from near Udine to the east as far as Bergamo to November, it happens that the tide rises and the water overflows the west, covering the area of the present-day regions of Veneto, the canal banks flooding the city, its houses, churches and shops. Friuli and part of Lombardy. The cities of Treviso, Udine, Bergamo, Netplan srl This causes a lot of damage to businesses, tourism and residents Netplan srl Brescia bear the symbol of Venice - the winged Lion - in their main via Torino 162 via Torino 162 squares to this day. Many years before the fall of Costantinople in 1453 30172 Venezia Mestre alike. One can only wait for the water level to gradually fall so, like 30172 Venezia Mestre Venice foresaw the loss of commerce with the Eastern Empires and ph. 39.041.5322900 the Venetians, please try to take it as a unique experience, wear a ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599 decided to invest much more on its mainland territories, thus pair of rain boots and walk slowly in our unique way - please don't beginning the “civiltà delle ville”. splash along!

4Pag 5Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Traffic & Streets San Marco Venice is a very special city in which everything is done on foot or There are different kinds of Let us suggest: after the visit by boat; we have boats for taxis, ambulances, for the fire streets which have different of St. Mark’s square you are department and for all other types of transport. Many Venetians names according to where and how very close to the Salute, which is a great point to start the visit of the own a small boat to get around in during summer or for carrying they are; the more frequent you’ll find are: Dorsoduro district. If you heavy goods. Usually, though, we travel by public craft. There are Calle: the typical pedestrian streets take this opportunity, take the many different waterbus lines and a host stops around Venice. It’s that can be streta (narrow), larga waterbus No. 1 from S. Marco and get very easy to cross the Grand Canal seeing palaces from both sides. (wide) or longa (long); off after one stop at Salute and in Another interesting way to cross the Grand Canal - and take a Campo: literally “field”, after the front of you appears in all its majesty cheap gondola ride at the same time - is the traghetto, a gondola original feature, they are today paved the Salute Church. For a wonderful shuttle bus service that ferries you across for less than the price squares, sometimes with a church; sightseeing of the lagoon and of St. Mark’s Square turn left and keep going of a cup of coffee, in six different places: Santa Maria del Giglio/La the only “square” or “piazza” is St. Mark’s; until the fondamenta ends. Here Salute; from Ca' Rezzonico to Palazzo Grassi; from Riva del Vin to Campiello: a small campo. you’ll find both the Punta della the City Hall; from Rialto Market to Strada Nova; from San Marcuola Fondamenta: street along a canal; Dogana della Serenissima (Custom’s to Fontego dei Turchi; from the railway station to San Simeone e Salizada: the biggest street and the Point) and a breath taking view with Giuda. With the traghetto you can enjoy the unique way of first that have been paved; the Piazza on your left, San Giorgio traveling in Venice - and begin to feel almost Venetian! Piscina (pool): as the name means it Island in front of you and the was once a pond; Giudecca on your right, from where Ruga: variation on the French word you can realise why this city is called Streets Names “rue” it was a busy street between the Queen of the Sea. In Venice very seldom are streets named after people; usually the the houses; names are taken from a story about the person who built the place Rio: small inner canal. If it’s called or an event happened there - and sometimes from people living terà (filled in) it is a street Is the smallest sestiere but is like a small, precious diamond with there or their job. The street names are written in small white the most beautiful buildings of Venice. St. Mark's square is the vignettes on the walls (in Venetian called "nizioleti"). If you want center of the sestiere, and standing in the middle of the square to know a little of the history of the nizioleti, there are two books you are in the world’s loveliest drawing room surrounded by that recount a hundred of them, each accompanied with humorous hundreds of years of history represented by superb monuments. comics strips: “I nizioleti raccontano”. In this guide we have tried Also its cafés are enchanting, with their outside chairs and to tell you something of them - but Venice's history is as big as its orchestras playing classical music that, on those foggy November fame! days, will whisk you away in a dream. You have also met el paron de casa, the master of the household as we call the belltower, so now you can start visit this breathtaking house: just take one Streets in Venice monument, open all your senses and breathe art, beauty and Venice is unique even for its street both for the numbers and for history all together. the names. The whole city is divided in six part called sestieri that are: Castello, Cannaregio, San Marco, S. Croce, Dorsoduro, S. Polo and many islands; the main islands are Giudecca, San Giorgio, you can see both from St. Mark’s Square, the islands of Murano, Burano, Torcello and the Lido – the location of Venice’s beaches. Street numbering in Venice starts in each Sestiere from one and rise progressively, so we can see addresses like Castello 2457 or Cannaregio 6368 – an indication of the size of the district! Netplan srl Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

6Pag 7Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

San Marco HIGHLIGHTS San Marco HIGHLIGHTS ST. MARK’S SQUARE PIAZZA SAN MARCO It is as unique as its name: indeed it is the only “Piazza” in ? THE COLUMNS OF MARCO ? THE COLUMNS OF MARCO Venice as the others are campi. In those far off days when the AND TODARO AND TODARO Veneti people chose this land as the seat of their Government, at THE AND THE PROCURATIE AND the beginning of the 9th century, and built their Ducal castle and NAPOLEONIC WING NAPOLEONIC WING later their Basilica, the piazza was much smaller, squeezed more THE DUCAL PALACE THE DUCAL PALACE or less between the facade of the church and a canal, now filled THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO in, called the rio Batario. In time, about the end of the 12th THE CAMPANILE OF ST. MARK’S THE CAMPANILE OF ST. MARK’S century, the church of St. Mark’s was enlarged, the Ducal Palace CA’ CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO CA’ CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO was turned into a "palacio" and the political and commercial power of Venice had become much stronger and more stable. THE PROCURATIE AND NAPOLEONIC WING Thus little by little the Piazza came to be what it was when The Procuratie are the arcaded buildings surrounding the Piazza. Gentile Bellini drew it in his famous painting of the Procession of They once housed the Procuratori of San Marco, the highest the Cross, at the end of the 15th century. The Piazza put in order representative magistrates after the Doge himself. Today under in this way, with herring-bone brick pavement until 1264, later their arcades are many fine shops of all kinds, the world famous with the modern type of Euganean trachyte with white stripes, Café Florian and Café Quadri and the most luxurious jewellers of which was used for the first time in 1723, from a design by Venice such as Nardi and Missiaglia. The Old section, which leads Andrea Tirali, it becomes the most suitable place for fetes, down the left side of the Basilica, are called thus because they cavalcades and ceremonies. were built before the ones in front, which are of course called the “new” Procuratie; both have loggias rising above the 50 arches of ground floor arcade. The third side of the Piazza facing the Basilica THE COLUMNS OF was occupied until the beginning of the 19th century in the centre MARCO AND TODARO by the church of San Geminiano; the church and the fine arches of In St. Mark’s small square the Procuratie were demolished by order of Napoleon (in 1807) or piazzetta, facing the with the idea of adding a splendid Ballroom. Work were begun in lagoon, stand the two 1810 on the building of the Napoleonic wing in neo-classical style Columns of Mark and by Giuseppe Soli. The entrance by the monumental staircase now Todaro, two splendid serves as an entrance to the Collections of Venetian History and Art monoliths of red and grey Collections of the Correr Museum and the Municipal Fine Arts oriental granite, Offices. surmounted by Veneto On the side of the Procuratie Vecchie and close to the Basilica byzantine-type capitals: stands the Torre dell’Orologio (Clock Tower) under which is the on one stands the bronze archway leading to the Merceria dell’Orologio. The central part Lion of St Mark, once was built from designs by Coducci between 1496-99. The two side shimmering with gold; on wings were added between 1500-06. The building is topped by a the other a marble figure terrace on which is placed the great Bell and the two figures, of San Todaro, the Greek "Moors" - because of the dark patina on the bronze - strike the saint who was the first patron saint of the Veneto people; this hours. They were cast in 1494 by Ambrosio de le Ancore probably statue is an exact copy of the original, which now kept in the Ducal from models by Paolo Savin. On the lower floor is the great clock Palace. Around their foot once stood stalls and shops run by traders face in gilt and blue enamels, with the hours, phases of the moon and small shopkeepers of all kind of precious goods, of which now and movement of the sun in relation to the signs of the zodiac and remains only an imitation of souvenirs and birdseed sellers. a complicated clock mechanism. The Archeological Museum is Netplan srl now part of the Civic Museums of Venice. Its entrance is located in Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre front of the Ducal Palace. A great part of its collection comes from 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 the Renaissance Grimani family’s donation that was the first ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 pubblic collection of ancient art in Europe. The museum boasts fax 39.041.5322599 beautiful masterpieces of greek and roman sculpure.

8Pag 9Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

San Marco HIGHLIGHTS San Marco HIGHLIGHTS PIAZZA SAN MARCO PIAZZA SAN MARCO ? THE COLUMNS OF MARCO ? THE COLUMNS OF MARCO AND TODARO AND TODARO THE PROCURATIE AND THE PROCURATIE AND NAPOLEONIC WING NAPOLEONIC WING THE DUCAL PALACE THE DUCAL PALACE THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO THE CAMPANILE OF ST. MARK’S THE CAMPANILE OF ST. MARK’S CA’ CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO CA’ CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO

DUCAL PALACE At once light yet solid with its light-pink façade and rectangular plan, the Ducal Palace was the seat of Government of the Serenissima Republic. With his impressive stature, it embodies the highest expression of the glory and the power of the Serenissima in its THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO splendour and magnificence. It was the Doge’s residence, the main Posing rather like a seated lion in front of the square, the Basilica administrative building, the public archives and the Palace of Justice; of St. Mark’s is the most important monument in the city, an the most decisive events in the history of the thousand years old everlasting testimony of the grandeur of Venice. The first church Republic took place between its walls. The first Byzantine building arose and was consecrated in 832 and remained the same until 976, was destroyed by a fire in 976; the following radical reconstruction of when it was partly destroyed by a fire and so rebuilt and the palace was at the time of Doge Sebastiano Ziani, who gave consecrated again in 978. But as the wealth of Venice grew, the hospitality to the emperor Frederick Barbarossa there in 1177. The Venetians wanted to make it greater and more beautiful, so the building was restored many times during the Gothic period (14-15th third church was built in 1063 under Doge Domenico Contarini and century), the Renaissance (15-16th century) and from the end of 16th is still there. The plan of the church, as it appears externally, is of century to the present days. The facade on the waterfront belongs to the Greek cross form; it has five great cupolas placed in relation to the 14th century but some parts were rebuilt after the great fire of the four end of the cross, covered outside with lead and topped by 1577, like the top ornament and the statue of Venice in the shape of lanterns and gilded crosses. On the main façade there are five Justice that was added while the various original Gothic statues of great doorways closed by four bronze door, as the fifth has been Saints and Allegorical Figures were preserved. The most famous turned into a window. On the upper order of façade there is a external work is the Porta della Carta, which is the main State terrace, arranged in its present form during the restorations of entrance to the public palace, it looks more like a complicated 12th and 13th centuries that stretches the full length of the goldsmiths’ work and seems to impress with the profusion of façade; in the middle, in front of the great window there are the ornaments. The interiors are full of frescoes, paintings and original four horses of gilded bronze which were sent from Constantinople furnishings. After the judge’s verdict, the convicts were led to the by Doge Enrico Dandolo. The main doorway of the facade leads into prison – in the adjacent building – directly from inside the palace by the atrium, a sort of entrance hall, to which the gold of the crossing the Bridge of Sighs, from where they could take their last mosaics and the various colours of the marble gives an aspect of longing look at freedom; you can see it outside from the Ponte della Netplan srl luxurious beauty. In the interiors everything is to notice but Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 Paglia and inside from the Ducal Palace, making the same way of the 30172 Venezia Mestre especially: the precious mosaics which covers its upper part, the 30172 Venezia Mestre convicts and trying to feel the same way when you'll see the prison ph. 39.041.5322900 vaults and the dome for more than 4,000 meters of its surface; the ph. 39.041.5322900 cells, where they finally realized what they've lost and how close they fax 39.041.5322599 gold Altar Screen dazzling with precious stone, gold and enamel fax 39.041.5322599 are to a painful death. (3.48 m wide x 1.40 m high); the Treasure of Saint Mark.

10Pag 11 Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

San Marco HIGHLIGHTS Castello PIAZZA SAN MARCO Tips: following this route you ST. MARK’S BELL TOWER ? THE COLUMNS OF MARCO can easily have an exhaustive The bell tower or campanile was begun on already existing Roman AND TODARO view of the Sestiere.Campo S. Maria Formosa and its church; Campo SS. foundations in the 9th century. It gradually took on its present THE PROCURATIE AND Giovanni e Paolo with its church and appearance in the early 16th century under the direction of the NAPOLEONIC WING the Scuola Grande S. Marco; Chiesa head architect Bon. It was formed of one stout, square shaft in THE DUCAL PALACE di S.Francesco della Vigna; Chiesa di brick with pilasters 12 m wide, 29.50 m high (the entire height was THE BASILICA OF SAN MARCO S.Giorgio dei Greci; Chiesa della 98.6 m) and the belfry with arches on which is placed a huge cube THE CAMPANILE OF ST. MARK’S Pietà; Arsenale; Giardini della that serves as a basis for the pyramidal steeple surmounted by a CA’ CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO Biennale. two meters high Golden Angel which is even a weathercock, that turns his back to the lagoon when bad weather is coming. The Campanile had been very important in the story of the city: his bells' were rung to inform the Venetians of all the main events of the city, because of the wonderful city view from its top and even for the social life of Venetian people, as at his foot there were many wine-stalls that, following his shadow, poured the typical glass of wine, for this reason now called "ombra" (shadow). Owing to some unwise work done on its walls, it crumbled onto himself unexpectedly on July 14th 1902 at about ten o’clock in the morning; miraculously no one was killed, nothing was damaged, and the Angel was safe as is the same now. The city council decided that the tower was to rise again where it had stood and as it had been; the first stone was laid on April 25th 1903, and nine years The maps shows Venice shaped like a fish and Castello is its tail. later, in 1912, the "master of the household" as Venetians call it was Castello is the largest and most varied of the six districts and also, inaugurated. most important, the home of maritime Arsenale, which stands CA’ CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO behind its high towers, a forbidden city within a city. The northern You'll be very surprised to find a palace part of the sestiere was controlled by mendicant orders and the so strange and beautiful hidden in a charitable institutions. little calle as Ca’ Contarini del Bovolo. Its name derives from the spiral staircase (in Italian "scala a chiocciola" = snail-shell in Venetian bovolo) to be seen in the courtyard nearby; the palace is a characteristic Lombardesque construction, probably designed by Giovanni Candi (1499). In the enclosure there are some well- heads, one of Venetian-Byzantine style (11th century) and various ornamental fragments. From the top you have a splendid and a complete view over Venice. At Ca’ Contarini del Bovolo you are in the city geographical Netplan srl Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 centre and you can see almost all the 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre belltowers and the churches. ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

12Pag 13Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Castello INTRO Castello HIGHLIGHTS Campo S. Maria Formosa is one of the most characteristic Venetian CAMPO S. MARIA FORMOSA campi, famous for the important buildings surrounding it. Take Calle ? THE CHURCH OF SS. Lunga S. Maria Formosa, turn left into Calle Trevisana o Cicogna, go GIOVANNI E PAOLO straight on, crossing Ponte Minich, straight on again along Calle CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO Bressana and you’ll come out into Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo, DELLA VIGNA where, in its center is the monument of Colleoni, where we can find CHIESA DI SAN GIORGIO DEI the Scuola Grande di San Marco, which has been converted into the GRECI main hospital of the city, that is one of the six Scuole Grandi (great CHIESADELLAPIETÀ Guilds) in Venice. The Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, built by the ARSENALE Dominican friars is an example of religious Gothic architecture. Take GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE the Barbaria delle Tole and go straight on until it ends and you will come to Campo Santa Giustina; take Calle Zon, cross Ponte Zon, turn CAMPO S. MARIA FORMOSA left, take Calle S. Francesco and at the end you’ll find yourself in Is one of the most characteristic Venetian campi, famous for the front of the Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna the name of which is reputed to come from the vineyards (vigne). Coming out from the important buildings that surround it. With your back to the fountain church, turn left, cross the Ponte di S. Francesco o del Nuncio, on the front we have Palazzo Malipiero Trevisan, rebuilt at the continue on to Salizada San Francesco, Salizada de le Gate, turn right beginning of the 16th cen., that has on the façade porphiry and green into Campo de le Gate, crossing it and going on along Calle dei marble medallions. Going on to the right we find Palazzo Vitturi, a Furlani, turn left in Fondamenta dei Furlani, cross Ponte S. Antonin, 13th cent. building , then Palazzo Don with putti and angels branding go straight on Salizada dei Greci an at its end on the left of the Ponte the Don’s family arms. In the campo’s corner there is Palazzo Ruzzini dei Greci you can find the Chiesa di San Giorgio Dei Greci. Take with it’s elegant open work balconi designed by Manopola, one of the Salizada dei Greci again, go on and cross Ponte S. Antonin, take architects of the Doge’s Palace. salizada S. Antonin then turn right in Campo Bandiera e Moro. Facing In the nearby Campiello Querini is the Palazzo Querini Stampalia, this campo you will find the Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora, one of built in the 16th century by Coducci upon requested from the Querini the oldest of Venice. Crossing the campo you’ll find Calle del Dose, family. In 1894 the count Giovanni Querini left his impressive which will bring you out in Riva degli Schiavoni (the name comes from collection of books and all his properties to a foundation he created: the word Schiavonia, the actual from which the Schiavoni the Querini Stampalia Foundation, and made a great public library comes, because their ships stopped here), turn right, cross the Ponte with over 270,000 books. The library, by his expressly request, is open del Sepolcro and on your right you’ll find the Chiesa della Pietà one when the others library are closed. The first floor is a museum with of the most beautiful and elegant churches of the 17th century. plenty of paintings by Palma the Younger, Tintoretto, Bellini and Leaving the church, turn right, cross Ponte del Sepolcro again, go others. straight on Riva degli Schiavoni (on the right side you’ll have a great The S. Maria Formosa church is one of the eight churches that were view of the lagoon and of S. Giorgio island), cross Ponte del Ca’ di built, according to the tradition, by San Magno, bishop of Oderzo, in Dio, go on Riva di Ca’ di Dio, cross the Ponte della Tana, turn left in fondamenta della Tana and take the wooden Ponte dell’Arsenale from the 7th century to whom the Madonna is said to have appeared in the which you can have a view of the Arsenale a big group of buildings guise of a buxom matron. The church was rebuilt many times: in 1492 from whose yards the powerful war fleet and merchant navy went out by Marco Coducci, using the ancient building of 11th cent.; the dome to s ea. from the entrance of the museum keep left and walk along was rebuilt in 1668 after an earthquake and again in 1921; the last the Riva S. Biagio, cross the bridge and walk down Riva dei Sette rebuilt of the whole building was made from 1916 to 1921 with grants Martiri (a story tells that the name comes from a fact occurred the from the government and from Count G.B. Venier. The baroque 1st of August 1944: a German sailor disappeared during a party and Campanile was built in 1688 on a project by Francesco Zucconi.One the Germans, sure that he has been killed by partisans, killed seven of the main façade, the one facing the canal, was built with money of them; one day after the man was found dead drunk in a canal), given by the Cappello family in the honour of Cap. Vincenzo Cappello cross the Ponte dei Marinai d’Italia, go on Viale Trieste, and after 50 who defeated the Turks. The interior is an example of Mauro m on your left you’ll find the Giardini della Biennale, a group of Netplan srl Coducci’s work, with a Latin cross plan superimposed on the previous Netplan srl buildings where the International Exhibitions of Modern Art and via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre Greek cross foundations; it has a nave and side aisles, chancel, cross- 30172 Venezia Mestre Architecture are held. From there going on you can find Sant’Elena ph. 39.041.5322900 vaulted transepts and a blind hemispherical dome. It is characterized ph. 39.041.5322900 island, a residential zone and the "tale" of Venice’s fish. fax 39.041.5322599 by an interesting chromatic play of grey and white and contains fax 39.041.5322599 The Venice soccer team has his stadium there. paintings by Bartolomeo Vivarini, Palma the Younger and the Elder.

14 Pag 15Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Castello HIGHLIGHTS Castello HIGHLIGHTS CAMPO S. MARIA FORMOSA CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA CAMPO S. MARIA FORMOSA ? THE CHURCH OF SS. The name seems to come from the vineyards (vigne) which Marco ? THE CHURCH OF SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO Ziani, son of the Doge Pietro, gave to the Minor Friars in 1253, and GIOVANNI E PAOLO CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO over which the first church of the hermitage close by was built. The CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO DELLA VIGNA church was built in 1534 on a design by Sansovino who also supervised DELLA VIGNA CHIESA DI SAN GIORGIO DEI the construction works. The facade was built later (1568-1577) on a CHIESA DI SAN GIORGIO DEI GRECI design by Andrea Palladio. Two statues in bronze by Tiziano Aspetti GRECI CHIESADELLAPIETÀ stand in the niches, on the left Moses and on the right St. Paul. The CHIESA DELLA PIETÀ ARSENALE ARSENALE interior is on a Latin Cross plan with a nave, side chapels, an isolated GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE High Altar in the chancel and a deep choir. Inside we can notice works by Palma the Younger, like the Virgin and Child with Saints in the chapel of the Contarini family, on the right side of the church, or the Virgin in Glory adored by the donor kept in the choir.

CHIESA DI SAN GIORGIO DEI GRECI Begun in 1539, as the Greek obtained permission to built a school and to join a church, on a design by S. Lombardo it was completed by G. Chianantonio and consecrated in 1561. The interior is sumptuous and elegant with one nave and a hemispherical dome in the center frescoed by G. di Cipro.

THE CHURCH OF SS. GIOVANNI E PAOLO In Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo, with in its center the monument of Colleoni, we can find the Scuola Grande di San Marco, now the main hospital of the city, that is one of the six Scuole Grandi (great Guilds) in Venice. It was built in 1260 for humanitarian purposes and has always preserved his special patronage from the Signoria. The palace caught fire in 1485 and its reconstruction was assigned to Lombardo and Buora. The original plan of the building was retained but it is a wonderful example of the purest Lombard period of the Renaissance, especially for the wonderful marble decorated facade. In the Salone delle Adunanze we can still admire the Sansovino altar and several paintings by Tintoretto’s collaborators. The building was converted into a hospital in 1815 by the Austrians. The Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo (two Roman brothers martyred in Rome in the 2nd century in Rome), built by the Dominican friars, was begun in 1234 under the supervision of a friar of the order and it took almost two century to be finished. It is an example of the religious, gothic architecture, with a façade divided into three CHIESA DELLA PIETÀ parts, with central rose window and two lateral round openings. The original church of the 15th cent. was rebuilt on a design by The lower part of it is adorned by a series of blind gothic arcades Giorgio Massari and consecrated in 1760. The building is one of the Netplan srl most beautiful and elegant of the 17th century. Above the ceiling of Netplan srl and the two sarcophagi of Marco Michiel and Daniele Marco Bon on via Torino 162 via Torino 162 the main entrance there is the Fortitude and Peace by G. B. Tiepolo, the right and of Doge Jacopo Tiepolo and his son Lorenzo on the 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 one of his masterpieces. The best work of all is the powerful ceiling ph. 39.041.5322900 left. The interior, designed as a Latin cross, is full of funeral fax 39.041.5322599 frescoes of the Choir Triumph of Faith in which G. B. Tiepolo gives his fax 39.041.5322599 monuments of Doges and other famous people and of masterpieces best representing a part of the Glory of Paradise by means of a by Lombardo, Piazzetta and many artists of Bellini’s school. resplendent display of light and colors. 16 Pag 17Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Castello HIGHLIGHTS Cannaregio ARSENALE CAMPO S. MARIA FORMOSA Tips: with the following route The name comes from the ? THE CHURCH OF SS. you can easily have an corrupted arabic word GIOVANNI E PAOLO exhaustive view of the whole "darsina’a" – house of CHIESA DI SAN FRANCESCO sestiere. From Campo SS. Giovanni e industry – ship yard. It is a DELLA VIGNA Paolo, S. Maria dei Miracoli, Campo large group of buildings CHIESA DI SAN GIORGIO DEI SS. Apostoli,Chiesa dei Gesuiti, Strada Nova Ca d’Oro palace, Abazia from whose yards the GRECI della Misericordia, Chiesa della powerful war fleet and CHIESA DELLAPIETÀ Madonna dell’Orto and the Jewish merchant navy went out ARSENALE Ghetto. to sea. According to the GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE tradition it was built in 1104 on the two so called islands, but was being continually enlarged from the 14th to the 16th centuries so that it occupied a very large area. It was also surrounded with high protective walls and square towers with the Venetian winged lion on them. The great archway of the entrance was erected under Doge Pasquale Malipiero (1460) by A. Gambello. Above the door is the winged lion with a sword and the Bible with the words "pax tibi Marce evangelista meus" (peace to you, Marco, my evangelist), the symbol of Venice. In 1682 a terrace was built before the doorway and eight allegorical statues of god and goddesses were put all around on the balustrade. In its greatest period of activity, over 16,000 men worked there; they were called Arsenalotti and operated in teams made up of Together with Castello it is the largest of the Sestieri. Really carpenters, sawyers, caulkers that together could float up to six there is an open-war between the two Sestieri for who is the large merchants galleys every two years. At the time of the expansion of the Arsenal in the 14th century a number of largest, because Cannaregio has the highest street numbers but warehouses were built for storing and manufacturing ropes and Castello has S. Elena with a different numbering system. cordage: the Tana was one of them. Inside the Tana the hemp Cannaregio starts from the other side of the canal of SS. Giovanni plants were carded and sorted and then made into rope by master e Paolo, the bridges are the border line, and goes down to the cordwinders. train station. The name has two different explanations: for the Venice remained the most active naval constructed in Adriatic until first it comes from Canal Regio, Royal Canal, that once provided 1797. The end of the Republic brought by Napoleonic wars and the the access to the city from the main land; for the second it Austrian occupation also marked the collapse of the Arsenal. Today comes from Canna Regio, area of cane-brake. we can admire the Serenissima’s ships models in the Arsenale museum situated beside the Rio of the Arsenale with two large anchors on the front.

GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE Group of buildings where there is the International Exhibitions of Modern Art and Architecture, which started in 1895 upon the initiative of the Mayor Riccardo Selvatico, and every two years was repeated so now it has become the most important painting, drawing and sculpture exhibition in the world. By now all the Netplan srl Netplan srl nations participate and show works by their leading contemporary via Torino 162 via Torino 162 artists. The pavilions of the most important nations have been 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre gradually built around the Italian one that is used even for official ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 ceremonies and for the work of the nations that do not have a fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599 pavilion of their own. Farther along is Sant’Elena island, a residential zone and the "tail" of Venice’s fish, where Venice’s soccer team has its stadium. 18Pag 19Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Cannaregio INTRO Cannaregio HIGHLIGHTS From Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo cross the bridge in front of the CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI church, down in Calle larga Gallina, go straight on in Fondamenta ? MIRACOLI del Piovan and cross Ponte Santa Maria Nova. In front of you there CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI is the Chiesa di S. Maria dei Miracoli built to protect the sacred CHURCH OF THE GESUITI image "Virgin between two Saints". STRADA NOVA WITH THE Cross Ponte Santa Maria Nova again, cross Campo S. Maria Nova CA’D’ORO PALACE keeping left, turn left and get out in Campiello Santa Maria Nova, CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE then right into Campiello Bruno Crovato, go down to Salizzada S. MISERICORDIA Canzian until you come out into Campiello Flaminio Corner and CHIESA DELLA MADONNA follow the signs for Piazzale Roma-Ferrovia; after 50 m, turn left DELL’ORTO into Sottoportego Falier, carry on and cross the bridge on your right GHETTO DEGLI EBREI and you’ll come to Campo SS. Apostoli. Its church is thought to have been founded in the 9th century. From the front door of the church, turn right into Salizada del Pistor, go straight on and at the end turn right into Rio Terà dei Franceschi; at the end, turn left until you arrive at Rio Terà del Barba Frutariol then take Calle del Spezierand, cross Ponte dei Sartori keeping right; go straight on, cross Ponte dei Gesuiti and in front of you will be the Church of the Gesuiti or Santa Maria Assunta: originally, in the 19th century, it belonged to the order of the Crociferi, then it was rebuilt in 1657 CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI MIRACOLI when the nearby Monastery was acquired by Gesuits. down the A little hidden between two palaces rises the Chiesa di S. Maria dei Gesuiti bridge, turn left down in the Fondamenta, the first part is Miracoli a small but very precious building. According to tradition, Zen and the second S. Caterina; cross the second bridge on your the church was built from 1481 and 1489 by P. Lombardo, to protect left, Ponte Molin, and go down Calle Racchetta, crossing Ponte the sacred image "Virgin between two Saints" that was in a Priuli and go down Calle Priuli; at the end turn left and you come tabernacle of a man, Angelo Amadi, who lived in the nearby out into Corte dei Pali già Testori; from there in front of you there courtyard. As the image, considered miraculous, began to be is the Strada Nova with the Ca’d’Oro palace, take it on the left and worshipped and enriched with alms and gifts, he decided to built after 50 mt. on your right there is the calle Ca’d’Oro. get back to the church to preserve the image and to pray to it. Now the image Strada Nova and go straight on the right, cross the ponte nuovo di is on the altar. The facade is entirely covered with fine marbles, S. Felice, turn right, go straight on the fondamenta, at the end turn which, according to the tradition, were left from the work of the left, cross ponte della Misericordia, and you arrive in front of the Basilica of St. Mark. The interior, with its tones of light pink, silver, Church of the Abbey of the Misericordia founded in the 10th cent. gray and white is haloed in a soft light. Curious bas reliefs, which from the front of the Abbey go straight down fondamenta della features mermaids, Triton, small animals, flowers and other Misericordia, after a 100 mt. Turn right in calle Larga and going figures, run along the length of the pilasters and also around the down straight cross ponte dei Mori; go straight on crossing the base of the church. campo cross ponte de la Madonna dell’Orto and in front of you there is the Chiesa della Madonna dell’Orto: built about the middle CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI of the 15th cent. by Fra Tiberio da Parma with the name of San This pretty campo marks the beginning of the Strada Nova. Its Cristofofo later changed to Madonna dell’ Orto. from outside the church is thought to have been founded in the 9th century. The church turn right into the fondamenta and at the end cross the present building owes its appearance to the restorations carried wooden bridge on your left; go on into the calle and when you out during the 18th century; the spot is one of the first places on come out in fondamenta de la Sensa turn right, go on cross ponte the Realtine islands to be inhabited by refugees from the mainland. Rosso, keep going and cross the wooden bridge, ponte Turluna, on Netplan srl In the interior two great works: the Communion of Santa Lucia by Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 the end of the fondamenta on the left. Go straight on the calle 30172 Venezia Mestre G. B. Tiepolo and the great panel on the ceiling with the 30172 Venezia Mestre Turlona, at the end turn left and you find the irony ponte drl ph. 39.041.5322900 Communion of Apostoles, The Exaltation of the Eucharist and four ph. 39.041.5322900 Ghetto Novo that brings you in the Ghetto degli Ebrei (Jewish fax 39.041.5322599 oval on the sides with the Evangelists, all good frescoes by F. Canal. fax 39.041.5322599 District).

20Pag 21Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Cannaregio HIGHLIGHTS Cannaregio HIGHLIGHTS CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI ? MIRACOLI ? MIRACOLI CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI CHURCH OF THE GESUITI CHURCH OF THE GESUITI STRADA NOVA WITH THE STRADA NOVA WITH THE CA’ CA’D’ORO PALACE D’ORO PALACE CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE MISERICORDIA MISERICORDIA CHIESA DELLA MADONNA CHIESA DELLA MADONNA DELL’ORTO DELL’ORTO GHETTO DEGLI EBREI GHETTO DEGLI EBREI

STRADA NOVA, WHERE THERE IS PALAZZO CA’D’ORO The series of main streets that cross all Cannaregio starts here with the Strada Nova in which there is the Ca’d’Oro palace. Originally called Via Vittorio Emanuele and now Strada Nova, this street is broad and totally different from many others in Venice; it was opened up in 1871-72 by knocking down of houses and the widening of narrow alleyways, and, skirting the Grand Canal. Leads directly from Rialto to the railway station, changing name two times first in Tera San leonardo and after in Lista di Spagna. Coming from SS. Apostoli half-way down on the left you find Calle della Ca’ d’ Oro in which there is the entrance of the Ca’ d’ Oro now the home of THE JESUITS’ CHURCH the Franchetti Gallery. The palace is one of the gems of Venetian Or Santa Maria Assunta belonged originally to the order of the Gothic art built in the early 15th cent. for Marini Contarini and is Crociferi; then it was rebuilt in 1715, when the position of the called Ca’ d’ Oro (“Golden House”) because of the abundant gilding Jesuits was secure enough to do it. The façade built with the and color that once adorned the façade. The design was perhaps by money of the Manin family is an example of early 18th Baroque; the Marci D’Amadio but it was carried out by Lombard craftsmen and plan is a Latin Cross. Distributed on the plinths, over the columns, later by Venetians. The Ca’ d’ Oro changed hands many times and and in the niches, there are the figures of the twelve Apostles by it was finally bought an restored in the 19th century by Baron various sculptors of the 17th and 18th century. The whole internal Giorgio Franchetti, who in 1916 donated his paintings’ collection walls are swathed in green and white damask. This is just an Netplan srl and the building to the state; in 1927 a museum was opened Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 illusion which persists even after you realize that the material is 30172 Venezia Mestre containing many works by and Tintoretto and Gothic and 30172 Venezia Mestre infact white and green marble. The church keeps works by Palma ph. 39.041.5322900 Renaissance furniture. ph. 39.041.5322900 the Younger, Titian and J. Sansovino. After the suppression of the fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599 Jesuits order in 1773 the convent served first as a public school and later, in 1807, as a barrack. With the reinstatement of the order by Pius VII in 1814, the church reverted to the Jesuits. 22Pag 23Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Cannaregio HIGHLIGHTS Cannaregio HIGHLIGHTS CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI ? MIRACOLI ? MIRACOLI CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI CHURCH OF THE GESUITI CHURCH OF THE GESUITI STRADA NOVA WITH THE STRADA NOVA WITH THE CA’D’ORO PALACE CA’D’ORO PALACE CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE MISERICORDIA MISERICORDIA CHIESA DELLA MADONNA CHIESA DELLA MADONNA DELL’ORTO DELL’ORTO GHETTO DEGLI EBREI GHETTO DEGLI EBREI

CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE MISERICORDIA. In front of you appears the rather gloomy building of the Church of the Abbey of the Misericordia. Founded in the 10th century its façade has a great relief in Byzantine style, representing the Madonna praying with Child. If you take the wooden bridge you’ll find the Scuola Vecchia della Misericordia. Its façade is late Gothic and the missing doorway, with a canopy with carvings and a large lunette containing the Virgin of the Misericordia worshipped by the Brothers, was pulled down in 1612 and it is now in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. THE CHIESA DELLA MADONNA DELL’ORTO Was built in about the middle of the 15th century by Fra Tiberio da Parma. First called San Cristoforo, the name was later changed to Madonna dell’Orto because of an ancient miraculous image of the Virgin which had been found in a nearby garden, having been brought into the church. The church was rebuilt at the beginning of the 15th century with construction going on for the whole century. The façade is the most complete still-standing example of Venetian Gothic architecture of the 15th century. The row of niches, which were the old galleries along the wings, with the statues of the twelve Apostles by the Delle Masegne family, are inspired from Romanic motives and constitute a characteristic element. The interior has a nave without transept and side isles, Netplan srl with corresponding apse chapels separated by two rows of columns Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre of Greek marble. The image of the Virgin and child that gives name 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 to the church is beside the chapel of S. Mauro and is a crude work ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 of the 14th century in soft stone. Inside there are many works by fax 39.041.5322599 Palma the Younger, Ponzone and Tintoretto.

24 Pag 25Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Cannaregio HIGHLIGHTS San Polo CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEI Tips: here a route to make you ? MIRACOLI ? easily discover the oldest CAMPO SS. APOSTOLI Sestiere of Venice: Rialto bridge, Rialto Market, Chiesa di S. CHURCH OF THE GESUITI Giacometto, Goldoni’s house, S. M. STRADA NOVA WITH THE Gloriosa dei Frari, Scuola Grande di CA’D’ORO PALACE S. Rocco. Following this route you CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF THE can even find the church of San MISERICORDIA Tomà and the Scoletta dei Calegheri CHIESA DELLA MADONNA and a host of other interesting DELL’ORTO places but... sorry, we don’t have enough space here to tell you! GHETTO DEGLI EBREI

GHETTO DEGLI EBREI The bridge of Ghetto Novo is the border-line of a big area: the Ghetto degli Ebrei (Jewish Ghetto). Enclose by the wide loop of the Grand Canal, San polo is Venice’s This is the district where up till 1527, by order of the Signoria, the smallest sestiere but it includes the most lively part of Venice: Jewish had their homes, which are very high to reclaim places, Rialto. According to the tradition Rialto, since oldest times, was some of them having as many as eight storeys today. The first signs one of the centres of life in the Venetian islands, where the first of Jewish presence in Venice date from early 14th cent. when inhabitants, having escaped from the mainland, availing Jewish merchants come to buy and sell all kinds of goods in the themselves the firmer and higher soil – and therefore safe from port and fondachi. The Jewish, first maybe coming from the floods – concentrated their trade. Rialto was the most important mainland, finally began to establish themselves more or less centre of the new group of islands, and Rivo Altus (“High Bank”), illegally, until the Chioggia war of 1381 yielded them the first the ancient name, was indeed the name of the whole town until Condotta. This law officially authorize them to live in Venice and after the year 1000, when it eventually took the name of Venice. to practise usury and "strazaria" (the sale of second hands clothes and objects). But the condotta was not a final contract and, after changing fortunes, it was only in 1516 that the Senate allows Jewish people to live and move around in Venice but only in this restricted area called Ghetto Novo, a sort of urban isle that was linked to the rest of the city by two points that could be closed at night or during Christians’ ceremony. This was a way to preserve their richness inside Venice but to demonstrate their inferiority to Christians. After 1541 the Jewish quarter was enlarged to include the Ghetto Vecchio and they become one quarter. The name Ghetto seems to be derived from the district which was Netplan srl Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 formerly the area used for the foundry casting (gettare) of metals 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre and cannon-making; with time the name came to be used to ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 indicate the districts where Jewish lived even outside Venice. fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

26Pag 27Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

San Polo INTRO San Polo HIGHLIGHTS PONTE DI RIALTO PONTE DI RIALTO CHIESA DI SAN ? CHIESA DI SAN GIACOMETTO GIACOMETTO HOUSE OF CARLO GOLDONI HOUSE OF CARLO GOLDONI S. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI S. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI SCUOLA GRANDE OF SAN ROCCO SCUOLA GRANDE OF SAN ROCCO

Ponte di Rialto (Rialto’s bridge): this was formerly the only permanent link between the two banks of the Grand Canal into which the city was divided. Down the bridge there is the Chiesa di San Giacometto considered the oldest in Venice. Take Ruga PONTE DI RIALTO Vecchia San Giovanni, go straight along Rughetta del Ravano, It was formerly the only permanent link between the two banks of keep going into Calle de l’Ogio o de la Rughetta until you reach the Grand Canal into which the city was divided. It seems that Campo Sant’Aponal; from there, take Calle de Mezo, go straight already in 1172, under Doge Ziani, a bridge of barges was planned; into Campiello Dei Meloni and keep going. Cross the Ponte de la a story instead tells that in 1181 a pontoon bridge was built by Madoneta and after a few meters on your left you come to Campo Nicolo Baratieri. About the middle of the 12th century it was San Polo. If you keep going straight, you’ll find, after 100 meters replaced by a bridge supported on wooden posts that was passing by the campo, the Ponte di San Polo; cross it, go straight destroyed in 1310; the new one collapsed in 1444 and was rebuilt down Calle dei Saoneri and at the end turn right into Rio tera dei in wood again but enlarged and with shops on it. The bridge as we Nomboli; turn right into Calle dei Nomboli, 20 m along on the left see it today was built between 1588–1591 by Antonio Da Ponte is the house where playwright Carlo Goldoni lived, Palazzo whose design was presented together with those of the most Centani. At the end of Calle dei Nomboli, cross the Ponte di San famous architects of that time. The construction was difficult Tomà, into Campiello San Tomà, turn right and walk into Campo because of the instability of the site and the height (25 feet). As San Tomà, where you can see the church and the Scuoletta dei we see it now, it is a great architectural masterpiece for its two Calegheri. From there, take Ramo Calegheri, turn left, then right sides of arcades, and contributes to make great the view of the and you enter Campo dei Frari. Down on your right you can find Grand Canal. As a tip, we suggest taking the no. 1 waterbus route the entrance of the S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari the Lesser friars from San Zaccaria to admire the full length of the Canal in its of the Franciscan order, and on your left the Salizada San Rocco Netplan srl beauty; you will certainly be spoiled for choice! It’s difficult to Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 you'll find the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, declared “Scuola 30172 Venezia Mestre take in so much on such a short trip. 30172 Venezia Mestre Grande” by the in 1489. ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

28Pag 29Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

San Polo HIGHLIGHTS San Polo HIGHLIGHTS CHIESA DI SAN PONTE DI RIALTO PONTE DI RIALTO GIACOMETTO ? CHIESA DI SAN ? CHIESA DI SAN Right in the heart GIACOMETTO GIACOMETTO of the Naranzeria HOUSE OF CARLO GOLDONI HOUSE OF CARLO GOLDONI there is the Chiesa S. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI S. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI di San Giacometto. SCUOLA GRANDE OF SAN ROCCO SCUOLA GRANDE OF SAN ROCCO A popular tradition consider this church as the oldest in Venice, erected, owing to the oath of a Cretan carpenter, at the time of the first refugees to the island in the 5th century. It was visited by the Doge every year on Good Friday, in commemoration of the indulgences granted by Pope Alexander III in 1177. The church is very little but very nice mostly for its position, in the very ancient heart of Venice where all the main business were done. On the façade we can see a large clock built in 1410. On the other side of the campo is the Sottoportego del Banco Giro, the first bank of Venice. It was founded in 1584 by Doge Jacopo S. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI Foscarini who wanted the circulation of money to be under the The gothic church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari was built by the Republic’s supervision. The Bank was open every day from noon Lesser Friars of the Franciscan order, commonly known as the Frari. until 7 pm to guarantee a good service. Indeed as soon as they came to Venice they obtain help and patronage from the Serenissima and in 1250, when they were given a plot of CARLO GOLDONI’S HOUSE ground by Doge Jacopo Tiepolo; they built their first church, which Palazzo Centani is a 15th century building with a pointed arch was completed only in 1338, being much smaller than the present and façade facing the canal and visible from Ponte San Tomà with a facing in the opposite direction. Donations from great Venetian lovely courtyard and an open air stairway. In it in 1707 was born families made possible to enlarge and embellish this structure in the Carlo Goldoni, the creator of modern theatre. Upon the initiative mid-14th cent.; it was then demolished in the early 15th cent. to of Aldo Ravà, an illustrious scholar of Venetian culture, a built a new basilica, a huge mass of brick punctueted by features of committee of distinguished citizens bought the house in 1914 and white marble. The façade, severe and stately, is of late Gothic style, create a centre for the preservations of Goldoni’s relics. Thus the divided into three parts by pilasters with a curved crowning, palace became, in 1952, the Institute for Theatrical Studies with decorated with characteristic little tabernacles with Venetian- in it the theatrical section of the Library of the Correr Museum. byzantine capitals. The interior is impressive; is on a latin cross plan Goldoni with his works shows us how dialect can be a language with transept, a central nave and aisles divided by twelve massive and how it helps to give currency to the theatre making it piers, linked by wooden catene, with a central apse and three minor understandable by everybody and also entertaining and funny. apse-chapels on either side, on a polygonal plan; the ceiling is The most famous successes of Goldoni are: I Rusteghi (1760), the pointed-arch cross-vaulting. The church contains plenty of works of Netplan srl many artist like Titian, Palma the Younger, Piazzetta, Bellini and Netplan srl trilogy of La Villeggiatura (1761) and Le Baruffe Chiozzotte via Torino 162 via Torino 162 (1762). 30172 Venezia Mestre Vivarini. Inside the old convent and the oratory there is the City’s 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 Archieve with about 15 million volumes packed in three hundred odd ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 rooms,.which record the entire history of the Serenissima. fax 39.041.5322599

30Pag 31Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

San Polo HIGHLIGHTS Dorsoduro PONTE DI RIALTO Tips: The sestiere of ? CHIESA DI SAN Dorsoduro is pretty big but only its central part is interesting. GIACOMETTO We have included all the thing you HOUSE OF CARLO GOLDONI can’t miss of the sestiere in this S. MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI route driving you step by step in its SCUOLA GRANDE OF SAN ROCCO hidden wonders: Basilica della Salute, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Accademia, and Ca’ Rezzonico.

SCUOLA GRANDE OF SAN ROCCO The impressive white marble building in front of you is the Scuola Grande San Rocco. San Rocco was declared a Scuola Grande by the Council of Ten in 1489, and the construction of the actual The sestiere of Dorsoduro covers Venice’s southern flank, including headquarter building was given to Bartolomeo Bon in the same year, the island of Giudecca. The name of this island has a particular but the works lasted for 50 years and many architects changed. The history: as it was the island where were isolated the prisoners, the paternity of the building belongs therefore essentially to Bon and name derives from Dante’s Divine Comedy in which the Giudecca is Scarpagnino. It’s likely, however, that the façade was left unfinished the last circle of Hell where there are the benefactor’s betrayer. in it’s final portion, because it lacks a proper crowning. The carved The name Dorsoduro means "hard back" and refears to the quality decorations are very rich and, though showing motives of the of the soil. Dorsoduro in the 17th and 18th cent. acquired both Renaissance, already hints at a character of heavy redundance, dignity and status, with a lavish rebuilding of many of its churches peculiar to the Venetians sculptors of the middle of the 15th. At the and the construction of magnificent palaces. The skyline was fall of the Repubblic the School suffered a terrible blow: its rich radically changed by the building of La Salute and the Zattere. possessions were seized, most of its sacred decorations dispersed, During the 19th cent., after the establishment of the Accademia at and it was condemned to be demolished. Rescued by the piety of La Carità and the construction of the Accademia bridge, the some citizens, it was re-opened for divine service in the same year sestiere become one of the favourite areas for wealthy foreign 1806, getting back as well, though with scanty resources, its former residents. Here, there is the last still working Gondola’s yard in assignment of assisting the poor and the tutelage of art masterpieces, Venice trough which its name was, and still is, celebrated all over the world. The interiors are full of great works by Titian, G. B. Tiepolo and Giorgione. But its masterpieces are certainly the about fifty works by Tintoretto, the greatest Venetian painter after Titian. Netplan srl Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

32Pag 33Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Dorsoduro INTRO Dorsoduro HIGHLIGHTS BASILCA DELLA SALUTE BASILICA DELLA BASILCA DELLA SALUTE THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM SALUTE ? THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION On October the 22nd COLLECTION ACCADEMIA 1630 the Senate ACCADEMIA CA’ REZZONICO decreed that in order to CA’ REZZONICO give thanks for the liberation of Venice from a virulent plague, they would build a great church to be dedicated to the Virgin. Among the eleven models presented the one by Baldassarre Longhena was chosen. He gave the main façade grander proportions, not without some ideas taken from Palladio, and in the middle placed the splendid doorway, crowning the pediment and the space between the columns with statues. To increase the feeling of grandeur he placed the whole mass Out from the main entrance of the Basilica della Salute, cross the on a raised platform wooden bridge on your left, go straight into the sottoportego, take with a flight of steps in calle San Gregorio, keep going in calle del Bastion, cross the front, which were restored in 1899. The interior is surprisingly bridge, keep going following the street, cross Ponte San Cristoforo effective in the sober grandeur of the masses, it consist of a and after 20 mt. you’ll find the entrance of The Peggy central body on an octagonal plan, on each side of which rise a Guggenheim Collection. Outside the museum turn right, then right corresponding number of stout arches divided by composite again, keep going down the Fondamenta Venier dei Leoni,and then columns on which rest the cornice and the drum of the colossal in Calle della Chiesa and you get out in Campo San Vio; cross the dome. Inside there is a large collection of paintings and sculptures, bridge in front of you and go down in Piscina del Forner that to name just a few: the Pentecost, St. Roch and St. Sebastian, becomes Calle Nuova Sant’Agnese and at the end turning left you David and Goliath and Cain and Abel by Titian; Wedding at Cana of find yourself in front of the Accademia bridge, where nearby there Tintoretto and Jonas and Samson of Palma The Younger. is the Gallerie dell’Accademia. Outside the Gallery turn left Every year on November 21st on the celebration of the following the signals to P.le Roma-Ferrovia, keep going following Presentation of the Virgin, the Signoria used to go processionally to the street, cross the Ponte delle Maravegie go straight on for 100 solemnize the anniversary of the favour granted, leaving St. Mark’s mt. following the street, cross the bridge and after the and crossing the Grand Canal over the pontoon bridge built every Sottoportego del Casin dei Nobili you’ll get out in campo San Netplan srl year to connect San Moise to La Salute. This ceremony still Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 Barnaba. On your right you have the chiesa di San Barnaba. This 30172 Venezia Mestre continues and all Venetians of every ages partecipate to have good 30172 Venezia Mestre church is the venetian library in the movie “Indiana Jones and the ph. 39.041.5322900 health for the whole year. ph. 39.041.5322900 Last Crusade”. Cross the bridge next to the Church and turn right: fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599 after few metres you will find on your left Ca’ Rezzonico, the Museum of Eighteenth Century Venice. 34Pag 35Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Dorsoduro HIGHLIGHTS Dorsoduro HIGHLIGHTS BASILCA DELLA SALUTE BASILCA DELLA SALUTE ? THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM ? THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION COLLECTION ACCADEMIA ACCADEMIA CA’ REZZONICO CA’ REZZONICO

THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION ACCADEMIA The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a foundation which has seat The Accademy of Fine Arts was created by a decree of the Senate inside Palazzo Venier dai Leoni. This building, even if it is designed on September the 24th 1750 and placed under the responsability of as an 18th cent. one, it was never elevated over the first floor. It was G. Piazzetta first and then of G. Tiepolo. In 1807 it was reorganized bought as a home in 1954 by Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), a great with an art gallery of its own. This Gallery had two functions: both collectors and a Maecenate of most of the modern artists of the to provide examples to the pupil and to house the artistic heritage time, who brought here his enormous collection of sculpture and of the public buildings dispersed by the fall of the Republic. At the paintings from the most different artists like Mirò, Magritte, end of the Second World War, the great architect Carlo Scarpa Boccioni, Picasso, Chagall, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Ernst, Dali'. In her redesigned the Accademy with the collaboration of the curator, and last she will left everything to the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, which now runs the most complete Modern Art museum of Venice today it offers the most complete panorama of Venetian paintings made with her collection. It contains more than 400 paintings and in existence, even because its original collection has been enriched sculptures offering a great view inside modern and, thanks to its by religious treasures, private legacies, restitutions and location, also over the first part of the Grand Canal. purchases.From outside the front door you can admire the wooden construction of the Accademia Bridge one of the three bridges, together with Rialto and Scalzi, which cross the Grand Canal; once it was a drawbridge then it was made fixed in the 20th cent. and many times entirely restored.

Netplan srl Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

36Pag 37Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Dorsoduro HIGHLIGHTS Santa Croce BASILCA DELLA SALUTE ? THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION ACCADEMIA CA’ REZZONICO

CA’ REZZONICO Now the Museum of Eighteenth Century Venice. It is a monumental building, begun by Baldassarre Longhena for the Priuli-Bon family In the northwest of Venice, it covers 94 acres. It has two very at the middle of the 17th cent. and carried as far as the Piano distinct areas; the eastside is very old and typically Venetian; a Nobile. About 1745 the last floor was added by the new owners the walk down here takes away from crowds. In the western part, Rezzonico family. The superb mass on the façade, in which classical during the last two centuries some modern buildings have appeared elements have been employed to express the stately grandeur near the old ones, and, in some cases, have repleaced them. which was the taste of the times, is completely in harmony with Nowadays it is commercially important because it links Venice to the rooms and decorations inside. The grand staircase is reached the mainland, rich of firms and industries. In the mind of the from the ground floor Vestibule constituting one of the most inhabitants this area is still countriside, meaning, ironically, that sumptuos entrances to an aristocratic Venetian home in the whole crossed the bridge there is nothing ...! of the city. It was bought by the English poet Robert Browning, then by Barone Hirschel de Minerby who was the last owner; it was then acquired by the City Council(1935) and re-arranged as a Museum.

Netplan srl Netplan srl via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599 fax 39.041.5322599

38Pag 39Pag The venice city guide The venice city guide

Santa Croce INTRO Santa Croce HIGHLIGHTS CHIESA DI S. STAE CHIESA DI S. STAE FONDACO DEI TURCHI ? FONDACO DEI TURCHI CÀ MOCENIGO CÀ MOCENIGO PALAZZO PESARO PALAZZO PESARO

CHIESA DI S. STAE The façade, loaded with groups of marble decorations, is a pictorial and gorgeous exspression of Baroque art of the beginning of the 18th cent., built thanks to a legacy left by Doge Alvise Mocenigo, about 1709. After the submission of as many as twelve designs it was eventually erected according to a design prepared by Domenico Rossi. The chief creators of the fantastic, free sculptural decoration were the sculptors: Tarsia, Torretto, Baratta, Groppelli etc. The designer and builder of the interior was the architect Giovanni Grassi who strated the work about 1678. The ground plan has a nave, a vaulte ceiling with three chapels on each side, between mixed order of columns

FONDACO DEI TURCHI Another big building with an impressive façade on the Grand Canal is Chiesa di S. Stae is a great expression of Baroque Art of the the Fondaco dei Turchi. beginning of the 18th century. Nowadays it houses some This building, which began as a palace, was so badly damaged that it exhibitions. Once outside the church take the irony bridge on the had to be completely rebuilt in 1860's. The result was a construction right, Ponte Giovannelli, take the first on the left and you arrive in sumptuosly coated in marble, with the same expansive Venetian- front of Palazzo Pesaro now the international Gallery of Modern Byzantine façade as its predecessor. The first palace was probably art and Museum of Oriental Art. built in the early 13th century by Giacomo Palmieri, a former consul Get back to the front of the church,take the calle on the left, of Pesaros. Salizada San Stae, and after 50 mt. on the left you will find Ca’ In 1621 the Seignory rented the palace to Ottoman merchants as their Mocenigo. It was inhabited until recently by a branch of one of the main business locale, with a view to monitoring their activities. At city’s oldest patrician families. It offers the great chance to view this time the building became known as the Fondaco dei Turchi (the the interior of an aristocratic palace with its original fornitures and Turks' Warehouse). Later, as trade with the East began to decline, the decorations. From Salizada San Stae turn in Calle del Tentor, cross palace was abandoned by its Ottoman occupants and fell into ruin. In two bridges until Calle del Spezier. Following this Calle you will be Netplan srl 1880 the municipality purchased the Fondaco and restored it. In Netplan srl in Salizada del Fondaco dei Turchi. At the end of it there is the via Torino 162 via Torino 162 30172 Venezia Mestre 1924, after a spell as the Correr Museum (1898-1922), this former 30172 Venezia Mestre Fondaco dei Turchi. This building, which began as a palace, was so ph. 39.041.5322900 palace became Venice's Museum of Natural History, and it has been ph. 39.041.5322900 badly damaged that it had to be completely rebuilt in 1860's. Now fax 39.041.5322599 ever since. fax 39.041.5322599 is the Natural Museum of the city.

40Pag 41Pag The venice city guide

Santa Croce HIGHLIGHTS CHIESA DI S. STAE ? FONDACO DEI TURCHI CÀ MOCENIGO PALAZZO PESARO

CÀ MOCENIGO The Mocenigos, who were Lombards by origin, were none the less established in Venice for so long that at an early date they were already among the city's oldest patrician families. One branch of the family resided in the San Stae quarter. Ca’ Mocenigo is a traditional palazzo featuring a main hall (portego) in its central block. When he bequeathed his palace to the city in 1954, Alvise Mocenigo presented the museums of Venice with a doubly remarkable asset. The interiors, for one thing, were completely intact; and for another the furniture and the interior still measured up to the standards of elegance that had prevailed in the great houses of the 18th century. Palazzo Mocenigo also houses the Vittorio Cini Collection of religious drapery and woven fabrics from many different sources.

PALAZZO PESARO Now the international Gallery of Modern Art and Museum of Oriental Art is one of the most sumptuous and imposing buildings of the 17th cent., built by Baldassarre Longhena. In it he achieves, as it was the last building, an exspression of majestic splendour and titanic solidity. The work were interrupted in 1682 for the death of Longhena and again in 1703, and was only brought to completion in 1703 with the help of architect Antonio Gaspari who finished the top floor according to Longhena’s project, and also the side facing Netplan srl via Torino 162 the canal. 30172 Venezia Mestre ph. 39.041.5322900 fax 39.041.5322599

42Pag