Byzantine – Venetian Gothic – Renaissance – Baroque – Neoclassical. The palaces, especially along the Grand Canal embody in both structure and style, not only the history of Venetian architecture; but also the entrepreneurial nature of the city’s ruling classes.
This post is about helping you arrive and get around Venice and about getting to grips with some basic architectural and artistic terminology; to enrich your experience of this wonderful city.
Mostly hidden behind high walls, they give the impression that the city is made of stone and water.
The famous restaurant-bar in Venice, was a favourite haunt of the rich and famous and was opened in 1931, by bartender Giuseppe Cipriani.
Born in Venice in 1725, he was an adventurer and author; with the infamous reputation as the world’s greatest lover.
It is one of Venice’s most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre and in opera.
An introduction to the Guggenheim Foundation, the Guggenheim Collection and the Life of Peggy Guggenheim.
An exhibition held at the Guggenheim Venice, that ran between September 2019 and January 2020. The exhibition, celebrated the Venetian life of its founder and highlighted the events and the exhibitions, during the 30 years she spent in Venice from 1948-1979
It was an unprecedented “acqua alta”, with waters peaking at 194 cm; making it the worst flood in its history.
it was the area in which Jews were forced to live by the government of the Venetian Republic.