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Mark's Basilica: beautiful Venetian church with 5 domes looks like the
ancient church of Costantinopoli. It was embellished during the early centuries
of the last millennium and particulary in the thirtheenth century when Venice
dominated Mediterranean culture and economy.The church, built to represent the power of Serenissima, is externally embellished with marble, mosaics and bas-relief: all maded with precious materials came from Bisanzio, Aquileia and Ravenna. Internally, the church has a Greek cross plan with domes substained by big columns. But the most amazing fact of this church is that the architectural structure is perfectly hidden by the beauty of the mosaics... |
Rialto
Bridge: Till thirteenth century Venice was built on a groups of islands
separated by channels and to get on the other side were laid down wood
boards. Later many bridges were built in Venice but no one of them joining
the Gran Canal's banks. This was a big problem for the Establishment so that population was always teasing it about this promise. Competition had been won by Antonio da Ponte who thought a unic arch bridge, 48 meters long and 22 meters wide. Foundation was started in 1588, and it took some years to finally join the opposite part of the Gran Canal and subsitute the previous wood bridge that many times collapsed before. To get an image of this previous bridge look at the famous painting by Carpaccio "Guarigione di un ossesso")... |
Guggenheim
Museum:
the building should have characterized with its magnificence the last
part of Gran Canal: these were at least the purposes of the first owner
who built it in the eighteenth century. The building joins Gran Canal
with the channel on the rear part with two wings closing a rectangular
courtyard in wich should have hosted wild animals (this explains the name
of the building: leoni means lions!). Actually only the ground floor facing
the Gran Canal was built using a white stone called "Pietra d'Istria":
on the rear side there's the garden. Building was bought in this century
by american collector Peggy Guggenheim, and became soon one of the most
important place for contemporary works. Exhibiting masterpieces by Kandinsky,
Pollock, Ernst, Chagall, Dalμ and many others. |
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Located
just 1 step from S. SAMUELE (Palazzo Grassi) and from ACCADEMIA
bridge in a very central XIII century small palace, CORTE
de la VIDA suite is a luxury furnished apartment with private
entrance disposed on two floors. 1st floor: 1 double bedroom
with private bathroom and shower. 2nd floor: lightful dining
room, living room with TV, kitchen, 1 double bedroom, 1 bathroom
with bath tub. Corte de la Vida ensures an enchanting stay
in a real Venitian palace with high 
quality
furnitures and wooden beam ceiling inside all the bedrooms.
From here it's very easy to get on foot to S. Mark's Square
and Grand Canal, from where it's possible to join all the
area of venice and the islnds of the lagoon: Murano, Burano
and Torcello.
