Grand Canal of Venice
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Canal
Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxi
Water taxi
A water taxi or water bus, also known as a commuter boat, is a watercraft used to provide public transport, usually but not always in an urban environment. Service may be scheduled with multiple stops, operating in a similar manner to a bus, or on demand to many locations, operating in a similar...
s, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola
Gondola
The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian Lagoon. For centuries gondolas were the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in...
.
At one end the canal leads into the lagoon
Venetian Lagoon
The Venetian Lagoon is the enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Venetian language, Laguna Veneta— cognate of Latin lacus, "lake"— has provided the international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of saltwater, a lagoon.The Venetian Lagoon...
near Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into Saint Mark Basin: in between it makes a large S-shape through the central districts (sestieri) of Venice. It is 3,800 m long, 30–90 m wide, with an average depth of five meters (16.5 ft).
Description
Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century until 1797. It was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice and is often referred to as La Serenissima, in...
. The noble Venetian families faced huge expenses to show off their richness in suitable palazzo
Palazzo
Palazzo, an Italian word meaning a large building , may refer to:-Buildings:*Palazzo, an Italian type of building**Palazzo style architecture, imitative of Italian palazzi...
s: this contest reveals the citizens’ pride and the deep bond with the lagoon. Amongst the many are the Palazzi Barbaro
Palazzi Barbaro
The Palazzi Barbaro — also known as Palazzo Barbaro, Ca' Barbaro, and Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis — are a pair of adjoining palaces, in the San Marco district of Venice, northern Italy. They were formerly one of the homes of the patrician Barbaro family...
, Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. - Design :Ca' Rezzonico stands on the right bank of the canal, at the point where it is joined by the Rio di San Barnaba. The site was previously occupied by two houses...
, Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palazzi, it has always been known as Ca' d'Oro due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls.The Palazzo was built between 1428 and 1430 for the Contarini family, who provided...
, Palazzo Dario
Palazzo Dario
Palazzo Dario is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro sestiere on the Campiello Barbaro...
, Ca' Foscari, Palazzo Barbarigo
Palazzo Barbarigo
Palazzo Barbarigo is a palace in Venice, Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of the city. It was originally built in the 16th century. Today it is one of the more opulent palazzi on the canal, distinguished by its mosaics of Murano glass applied in 1886...
and to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, housing the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation....
. The churches along the canal include the basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. Centuries-old traditions such as the Historical Regatta are perpetuated every year along the Canal.
Because most of the city's traffic goes along the Canal rather than across it, only one bridge crossed the canal until the 19th century, the Rialto Bridge
Rialto Bridge
The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing line for the districts of San Marco and San Polo.- History :...
. There are currently two more bridges, the Ponte degli Scalzi
Ponte degli Scalzi
The Ponte degli Scalzi , literally, "bridge of the barefoot [monks]", is one of only four bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Grand Canal....
and the Ponte dell'Accademia
Ponte dell'Accademia
The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Grand Canal. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia galleries. The bridge links the sestiere of Dorsoduro and San Marco....
. A fourth, controversial bridge (Ponte della Costituzione) designed by Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City....
was recently erected, connecting the train station to the vehicle-open area of Piazzale Roma
Piazzale Roma
Piazzale Roma is a square in Venice, Italy.The square acts as the main bus station for Venice. There are bus links to Venice Marco Polo Airport and Treviso Airport. The square is close to the main Santa Lucia railway station for Venice, linked by the Ponte della Costituzione, a modern footbridge...
. As was usual in the past, people can still take a ferry ride across the canal at several points by standing up on the deck of a simple gondola
Gondola
The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian Lagoon. For centuries gondolas were the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in...
called traghetto.
Most of the palaces emerge from water without pavement. Consequently, one can only tour past the fronts of the buildings on the grand canal by boat.
The first settlements
The Grand Canal probably follows the course of an ancient river (possibly a branch of the BrentaBrenta River
The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from Trentino to the Adriatic Sea just south of the Venetian lagoon in the Veneto region.During Roman era, it was called Medoacus and near Padua it divided in two branches, Medoacus Maior and Medoacus Minor ; the river changed its course in early Middle...
) flowing into the lagoon. Adriatic Veneti
Adriatic Veneti
The Veneti were an ancient people who inhabited north-eastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of the Veneto....
groups already lived beside the formerly-named "Rio Businiacus" before the Roman age. They lived in stilt house
Stilt house
Stilt houses or pile dwellings or palafitte are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water. Stilt houses are built primarily as a protection against flooding, but also serve to keep out vermin...
s and on fishing and commerce (mainly salt). Under the rule of the Roman empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
and later of the Byzantine empire
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...
the lagoon became populated and important, and in the early 9th century the doge
Doge of Venice
The Doge of Venice , often mistranslated Duke was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city...
moved his seat from Malamocco to the safer "Rivoaltus".
Increasing trade followed the doge and found in the deep Grand Canal a safe and ship accessible canal-port. Drainage
Drainage
Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from an area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.-Early history:...
reveals that the city became more compact over time: at that time the Canal was wider and flowed between small, tide
Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun and the rotation of the Earth....
-subjected islands connected by wooden bridges.
"Fondaco" houses
A portico
Portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...
(the curia) covers the bank and facilitates the ships' unloading. From the portico a corridor flanked by storerooms reaches a posterior courtyard
Courtyard
A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. These areas in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court....
. Similarly, on the first floor a loggia
Loggia
Loggia is the name given to an architectural feature, originally of Minoan design. They are often a gallery or corridor at ground level, sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall...
as large as the portico illuminates the hall into which open the merchant's rooms. The façade is thereby divided into an airy central part and two more solid sides. A low mezzanine
Mezzanine (architecture)
In architecture, a mezzanine or entresol is an intermediate floor between main floors of a building, and therefore typically not counted among the overall floors of a building. Often, a mezzanine is low-ceilinged and projects in the form of a balcony. The term is also used for the lowest balcony in...
with offices divides the two floors.
The fondaco house often had two lateral defensive towers (torreselle), as in the Fondaco dei Turchi
Fondaco dei Turchi
The Fondaco dei Turchi is a Veneto-Byzantine style palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice, northeast Italy.-Early history:...
(13th century, heavily restored in the 19th). With the German warehouse, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Fondaco dei Tedeschi
The Fondaco dei Tedeschi is a historic building in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the city's German merchants...
(which is also situated on the Grand Canal), it reflects the high number of foreign merchants working in Venice, where the republic supplied them with storerooms and lodging and simultaneously controlled their trading activity.
More public buildings were built along the Canal at Rialto
Rialto
The Rialto is and has been for many centuries the financial and commercial centre of Venice. It is an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice, Italy, also known for its markets and for the Rialto Bridge across the Grand Canal....
: palaces for commercial and financial Benches (Palazzo dei Camerlenghi
Palazzo dei Camerlenghi
Palazzo dei Camerlenghi is a Renaissance palace in Venice, northern Italy, located in the sestiere of San Polo. It faces the Canal Grande, near the Rialto Bridge.-History:...
and Palazzo dei Dieci Savi
Palazzo dei Dieci Savi
Palazzo dei Dieci Savi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere of San Polo, and is not far from the Rialto Bridge, on the opposite side than the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi....
, rebuilt after 1514 fire) and a mint
Mint (coin)
A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins for currency.The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins. One difference is that the history of the mint is usually closely tied to the political situation of an era...
. In 1181 Nicolò Barattieri constructed a pontoon bridge
Pontoon bridge
A pontoon bridge or floating bridge is a bridge that floats on water and in which barge- or boat-like pontoons support the bridge deck and its dynamic loads. While pontoon bridges are usually temporary structures, some are used for long periods of time...
connecting Rialto to Mercerie area, which was later replaced by a wooden bridge with shops on it. Warehouses for flour and salt were more peripheral.
The Venetian-Byzantine style
From the Byzantine empire goods arrived together with sculptures, friezeFrieze
thumb|267px|Frieze of the [[Tower of the Winds]], AthensIn architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on an astylar wall it lies upon...
s, column
Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces...
s and capitals
Capital (architecture)
In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column . It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface...
to decorate the fondaco houses of patrician
Patricianship
Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in the ancient world, where cities such as Ancient Rome had a class of patrician families whose members were the only people allowed to exercise many political functions...
families. The Byzantine art
Byzantine art
Byzantine art is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the Byzantine Empire from about the 5th century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453....
merged with previous elements resulting in a Venetian-Byzantine style; in architecture it was characterized by large loggia
Loggia
Loggia is the name given to an architectural feature, originally of Minoan design. They are often a gallery or corridor at ground level, sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall...
s with round or elongated arch
Arch
An arch is a structure that spans a space and supports a load. Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture and their systematic use started with the Ancient Romans who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of structures.-Technical aspects:The...
es and by polychrome marbles abundance.
Along the Grand Canal these elements are well preserved in Ca' Farsetti
Ca' Farsetti
Ca' Farsetti is a palace in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the sestiere of San Marco, and faces the Canal Grande, not far from the Ponte di Rialto....
, Ca' Loredan
Ca' Loredan
Ca' Loerdan is a palace in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the sestiere of San Marco, and faces the Canal Grande, not far from the Ponte di Rialto. Together with the annexed Ca' Farsetti, it is currently home to the city's municipal council....
(both municipal
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
seats) and Ca' da Mosto
Ca' da Mosto
The Ca' da Mosto is a thirteenth-century palace in Venice, northern Italy, the oldest building on the Grand Canal. It is in the Veneto-Byzantine style, with high narrow arches and distinctive capitals.-History:...
, all dating back to the 12th or 13th century. During this period Rialto had an intense building development, determining the conformation of the Canal and surrounding areas. As a matter of fact, in Venice building materials are precious and foundations
Deep foundation
A deep foundation is a type of foundation distinguished from shallow foundations by the depth they are embedded into the ground. There are many reasons a geotechnical engineer would recommend a deep foundation over a shallow foundation, but some of the common reasons are very large design loads, a...
are usually kept: in the subsequent restorations, existing elements will be used again, mixing the Venetian-Byzantine and the new styles (Ca' Sagredo, Palazzo Bembo
Palazzo Bembo
Palazzo Bembo is a palace in Venice, Italy, on the Grand Canal, close by the Rialto Bridge and next to the Palazzo Dolfin Manin.-History:It was built by the noble family of Bembo in the 15th century. Although it was remodeled several times over the centuries, externally it still maintains the...
). Polychromy, three-partitioned façades, loggias, diffuse openings and rooms disposition formed a particular architectural taste that continued in the future.
The Fourth Crusade
Fourth Crusade
The Fourth Crusade was originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire...
, with the loot obtained from the sack of Constantinople
Constantinople
Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
(1204), and other historical situations, gave Venice an Eastern influence until the late 14th century.
Venetian Gothic
Venetian Gothic architectureVenetian Gothic architecture
Venetian Gothic is a term given to an architectural style combining use of the Gothic lancet arch with Byzantine and Moorish architecture influences. The style originated in 14th century Venice with the confluence of Byzantine styles from Constantinople, Arab influences from Moorish Spain and early...
found favor quite late, as a splendid flamboyant Gothic ("gotico fiorito") beginning with the southern façade of the Doge's Palace. The verticality and the illumination characterizing the Gothic style are found in the porticos and loggias of fondaco houses: columns get thinner, elongated arches are replaced by pointed or ogee
Ogee
An ogee is a curve , shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel....
or lobed ones. Porticos rise gently intertwining and drawing open marbles in quatrefoil
Quatrefoil
The word quatrefoil etymologically means "four leaves", and applies to general four-lobed shapes in various contexts.-In heraldry:In heraldic terminology, a quatrefoil is a representation of a flower with four petals, or a leaf with four leaflets . It is sometimes shown "slipped", i.e. with an...
s or similar figures. Façades were plaster
Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for coating walls and ceilings. Plaster starts as a dry powder similar to mortar or cement and like those materials it is mixed with water to form a paste which liberates heat and then hardens. Unlike mortar and cement, plaster remains quite soft after setting,...
ed in brilliant colors.
The open marble fascias, often referred as "lace
Lace
Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace-making is an ancient craft. True lace was...
s", quickly diffused along the Grand Canal. Among the 15th century palaces still showing the original appearance are Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro
Ca' d'Oro is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palazzi, it has always been known as Ca' d'Oro due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls.The Palazzo was built between 1428 and 1430 for the Contarini family, who provided...
, Palazzo Bernardo, Ca' Foscari
Palazzo Foscari
Ca' Foscari, the palace of the Foscari family, is a Gothic building on the waterfront of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Built by the doge Francesco Foscari in 1453, is now the main seat of Ca' Foscari University of Venice....
(now housing the University of Venice
University of Venice
Ca' Foscari University is a university in Venice, northern Italy. It was founded in 1868 as the first Italian business college. The main building of the University, Ca’ Foscari Palace, is placed in a strategic position on the bend of the Grand Canal, in the heart of the city...
), Palazzo Pisani Moretta
Palazzo Pisani Moretta
Palazzo Pisani Moretta is a palace situated along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy between Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza and Palazzo Tiepolo.-History:...
, Palazzi Barbaro
Palazzi Barbaro
The Palazzi Barbaro — also known as Palazzo Barbaro, Ca' Barbaro, and Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis — are a pair of adjoining palaces, in the San Marco district of Venice, northern Italy. They were formerly one of the homes of the patrician Barbaro family...
, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti
Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti
Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is a palace in Venice, Italy, not far from the Ponte dell'Accademia and next to the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal of Venice. Since 1999 it has been the seat of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti and frequently houses cultural events.The palace was...
.
Renaissance
By the start of the 15th century Renaissance architectureRenaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance...
motifs appear in such buildings as the Palazzo Dario
Palazzo Dario
Palazzo Dario is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro sestiere on the Campiello Barbaro...
and the Palazzo Corner Spinelli; the latter was designed by Mauro Codussi
Mauro Codussi
Mauro Codussi was an Italian architect of the early-Renaissance, active mostly in Venice. The name can also be spelt Coducci. He was one of the first to bring the classical syle of the early renaissance to Venice to replace the prevalent Gothic style.Born near Bergamo about 1440, he is first...
, pioneer of this style in Venice. Ca' Vendramin Calergi
Ca' Vendramin Calergi
Ca' Vendramin Calergi is a palace on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. Other names by which it is known include: Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi, and Palazzo Loredan Griman Calergi Vendramin. The architecturally distinguished...
, another of his projects (now hosting the Casino
Casino
In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...
), reveals a completed transition: the numerous and large windows with open marbles are round-arched and have columns in the three classical order
Classical order
A classical order is one of the ancient styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed. Three ancient orders of architecture—the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian—originated in...
s.
Classical architecture
Classical architecture
Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance...
is more evident in Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity...
's projects, who arrived from Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
in 1527. Along the Canal he designed Palazzo Corner and Palazzo Dolfin Manin, known for grandiosity, for the horizontal layout of the white façades and for the development around a central courtyard. Other Renaissance buildings are Palazzo Papadopoli and Palazzo Grimani di San Luca. Several palaces of this period had façades with frescoes by painters such as Il Pordenone
Il Pordenone
Il Pordenone, byname of Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis , was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance. Vasari, his main biographer, identifies him as Giovanni Antonio Licinio.-Biography:...
, Tintoretto
Tintoretto
Tintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso...
, Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...
, all of them unfortunately lost.
Venetian Baroque
Alessandro Vittoria
Alessandro Vittoria was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy....
began the construction of Palazzo Balbi
Palazzo Balbi
Palazzo Balbi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, to the right of Ca' Foscari. Currently it is the seat of the President of the Veneto region and of the regional council....
(now housing the Government of Veneto
Government of Veneto
The Regional Government of Veneto is the executive of the Veneto region of Italy.It is presided by the President of the Region , who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers , who are currently 12, including a Vice President.-Current composition:The current...
), in which Baroque
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
elements can be recognized: fashioned cornice
Cornice
Cornice molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element: the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the edge of a pedestal. A simple cornice may be formed just with a crown molding.The function of the projecting...
s, broken pediment
Pediment
A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure , typically supported by columns. The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice moulding...
s, ornamental motifs.
The major Baroque architect in Venice was Baldassarre Longhena
Baldassarre Longhena
thumb|250px|Tower of the church [[Santa Maria del Soccorso]], [[Rovigo]].Baldassarre Longhena was an Italian architect, who worked mainly in Venice, where he was one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture of the period....
. In 1631 he began to build the magnificent Santa Maria della Salute basilica
Basilica
The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a Roman public building, usually located in the forum of a Roman town. Public basilicas began to appear in Hellenistic cities in the 2nd century BC.The term was also applied to buildings used for religious purposes...
, one of the most beautiful churches in Venice and a symbol of Grand Canal. The classical layout of the façade features decorations and by many statues, the latter crowning also the refined volute
Volute
A volute is a spiral scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into Corinthian order and Composite column capitals...
s surrounding the major dome
Dome
A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory....
.
Longhena later designed two majestic palaces like Ca' Pesaro
Ca' Pesaro
The Ca' Pesaro is a baroque marble palace facing the Grand Canal of Venice.Originally designed by Baldassarre Longhena in mid-17th century, the construction was completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710...
and Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. - Design :Ca' Rezzonico stands on the right bank of the canal, at the point where it is joined by the Rio di San Barnaba. The site was previously occupied by two houses...
(with many carvings
Stone carving
Stone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, evidence can be found that even the earliest societies indulged in some form of stone work....
and chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro in art is "an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted"....
effects) and Santa Maria di Nazareth church (Chiesa degli Scalzi). For various reasons the great architect did not see any of these buildings finished, and the designs for all but Santa Maria della Salute were modified after his death.
Longhena's themes recur in the two older façades of Palazzo Labia
Palazzo Labia
Palazzo Labia is a baroque palace in Venice, Italy. Built in the 17th-18th century, it is one of the last great palazzi of Venice. Little known outside of Italy, it is most notable for the remarkable frescoed ballroom painted between by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, with decorative works in trompe...
, containing a famous fresco cycle by Giambattista Tiepolo. In the Longhenian school grew Domenico Rossi
Domenico Rossi
Domenico Rossi was an Italian architect.-References:...
(San Stae
San Stae
San Stae is a church in central Venice, in the sestiere di Santa Croce.San Stae, an abbreviation for Saint Eustachius, was founded at the beginning of 11th century and reconstructed in 17th century, has a main facade on the Grand Canal of Venice, constructed by Domenico Rossi, and richly...
's façade, Ca' Corner della Regina) and Giorgio Massari
Giorgio Massari
Giorgio Massari was a prominent late-Baroque Venetian architect. Among his masterpieces are the Chiesa dei Gesuati and the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky...
, who later completed Ca' Rezzonico.
The 16th and 17th centuries mark the beginning of the Republic's decline, but nevertheless they saw the highest building activity on the Grand Canal. This can be partially explained by the increasing number of families (like the Labia) becoming patrician by the payment of an enormous sum to the Republic, which was then facing financial difficulties. Once these families had achieved this new status, they built themselves with impressive residences on the Canal, often inducing other families to renew theirs.
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architectures along the Canal date to 18th century: during the first half was built San Simeone PiccoloSan Simeone Piccolo
San Simeone Piccolo is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce of Venice, northern Italy. From across the Grand Canal it faces the railroad terminal serving as entrypoint for most visitors to the city....
, with an impressive corinthian
Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order...
portico, central plan
Plans (drawings)
Plans are a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. Usually plans are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file.- Overview :...
and a high copper-covered dome ending in a cupola
Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....
shaped as a temple. Date to the second half Massari's Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi
Palazzo Grassi is an edifice in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, northern Italy...
.
Modern era
After the fall of the Republic 1797, construction of housing in Venice was suspended, as symbolized by the unfinished San Marcuola and Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (housing the Peggy Guggenheim CollectionPeggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation....
). Patrician families lost their desire of self-exaltation and many of them died out. Several historical palaces were pulled down, but most of them survived and good restorations have saved their 18th century appearance. The most important are publicly owned and host institutions and museums.
Religious buildings underwent the consequences of religious order
Religious order
A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious practice. The order is composed of initiates and, in some...
s suppression decreed by Napoleon
Napoleon I of France
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...
in the Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
The Kingdom of Italy was a state founded in Northern Italy by Napoleon, fully influenced by revolutionary France, that ended with his defeat and fall.-Constitutional statutes:...
period. Many churches and monasteries were deprived of furnishings and works of art, changed their function (like Santa Maria della Carità complex, now housing the Gallerie dell'Accademia) or were demolished. The Santa Croce complex naming a sestiere
Santa Croce
Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy.-Geography:It occupies the north west part of the main islands, and can be divided into two areas: the eastern area being largely mediaeval, and the western - including the main port and the Tronchetto - mostly lying on land reclaimed...
was situated in Papadopoli Gardens area; Santa Lucia complex (partially designed by Palladio) was razed to the ground to build Santa Lucia Station.
The Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was its legal predecessor state...
accession restored serenity in the city and stimulated construction along the Grand Canal respecting its beauty, often reproduced in Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
architectures like the Pescaria at Rialto.
Historical Regatta
On the first Sunday of September takes place the Historical Regatta ("Regata Storica"), a competition between Venetian boats watched by thousands of people from the banks or from floating stands. Competitions are preceded by a historical procession ("Corteo Storico") remembering the entrance of the Queen of CyprusCyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
Catherine Cornaro
Catherine Cornaro
Nobil Donna Catherine Cornaro was Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489 and declared a "Daughter of Saint Mark" in order that Venice could claim control of Cyprus after the death of her husband, James II .-Family:She was born in Venice in 1454 and was the daughter of a well-known and powerful family of...
after abdication in 1489: gondoliers in costumes sail in typical 16th century boats following the Bucentaur
Bucentaur
The bucentaur was the state galley of the doges of Venice. It was used every year on Ascension Day up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the "Marriage of the Adriatic" – more accurately, "Marriage of the Sea" – a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea every...
, doge's state galley.
The Feast-day of the Madonna della Salute
On November 21, Venetians thank the Virgin Mary for saving from the plague epidemic in 1630-38Italian Plague of 1629-1631
The Italian Plague of 1629–1631 was a series of outbreaks of bubonic plague which occurred from 1629 through 1631 in northern Italy. This epidemic, often referred to as Great Plague of Milan, claimed the lives of approximately 280,000 people, with the cities of the Lombardy and Veneto regions...
with a pilgrimage to Santa Maria della Salute. Pilgrims cross Grand Canal on a temporary pontoon bridge from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, and enjoy stalls and traditional dishes.
Itinerary
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| Ponte della Libertà Ponte della Libertà Ponte della Libertà is a road bridge connecting the city of Venice to Mestre, on the mainland of Italy.Designed in 1932 by engineer Eugenio Miozzi, and opened by Benito Mussolini in 1933 as Ponte Littorio, the bridge is the only access for road vehicles to the capital city of Veneto... |
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| Santa Chiara ex-monastery (Police Headquarter) | Railway area |
| Canale di Santa Chiara | |
| Ponte della Costituzione | |
| Piazzale Roma vaporetto station | Railway Department old seat |
| Rio Novo | |
| Papadopoli Gardens | |
| Rio della Croce | |
| Palazzo Emo Diedo (Tirali Andrea Tirali Andrea Tirali was an Italian architect working in Venice and the Veneto. He is known to have worked at Villa Duodo and the Chiesa and Convento di San Nicolò at Tolentino, at Villa Duodo he added to the work of Vincenzo Scamozzi... , 17th century) |
Santa Lucia Station |
| Wool-cloth Weavers Guildhall | |
| San Simeone Piccolo San Simeone Piccolo San Simeone Piccolo is a church in the sestiere of Santa Croce of Venice, northern Italy. From across the Grand Canal it faces the railroad terminal serving as entrypoint for most visitors to the city.... (18th century) |
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| Palazzo Adoldo | |
| Palazzo Foscari-Contarini | Santa Maria di Nazareth or Chiesa degli Scalzi |
| Ponte degli Scalzi Ponte degli Scalzi The Ponte degli Scalzi , literally, "bridge of the barefoot [monks]", is one of only four bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Grand Canal.... |
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| Rio Marin | Ferrovia vaporetto station |
| Campo San Simeon Grande | Palazzo Calbo Crotta |
| Rio Tera' dei Sabbioni | |
| Palazzo Gritti | Palazzo Flangini (Giuseppe Sardi Giuseppe Sardi Giuseppe Sardi was an Italian architect active in Rome. He was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, Marche which was then part of the Papal States... , 16th century) |
| Palazzo Corner | Scuola dei Morti (Confraternity Confraternity A confraternity is normally a Roman Catholic or Orthodox organization of lay people created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy... praying at funerals) |
| Palazzo Donà Balbi | San Geremia (18th century) |
| Palazzo Zen | Palazzo Labia Palazzo Labia Palazzo Labia is a baroque palace in Venice, Italy. Built in the 17th-18th century, it is one of the last great palazzi of Venice. Little known outside of Italy, it is most notable for the remarkable frescoed ballroom painted between by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, with decorative works in trompe... (17th century, frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo) |
| Riva di Biasio vaporetto station | Canale di Cannaregio |
| Palazzo Marcello Toderini | Palazzo Emo |
| Palazzo Querini | |
| Rio di San Zan Degolà | Palazzo Correr Contarini Zorzi |
| Palazzo Giovanelli | Palazzo Gritti |
| Casa Correr | San Marcuola (18th century, unfinished) |
| Traghetto Museo | Traghetto San Marcuola |
| Fondaco dei Turchi Fondaco dei Turchi The Fondaco dei Turchi is a Veneto-Byzantine style palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice, northeast Italy.-Early history:... (Venetian-Byzantine, Venetian Museum of Natural History) |
San Marcuola vaporetto station |
| Rio del Fondaco dei Turchi | Rio di San Marcuola |
| Fondaco del Megio Fondaco del Megio The Fondaco del Megio is a palace in the sestiere of Santa Croce, Venice, northern Italy... |
Ca' Vendramin Calergi Ca' Vendramin Calergi Ca' Vendramin Calergi is a palace on the Grand Canal in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. Other names by which it is known include: Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi, and Palazzo Loredan Griman Calergi Vendramin. The architecturally distinguished... (Mauro Codussi Mauro Codussi Mauro Codussi was an Italian architect of the early-Renaissance, active mostly in Venice. The name can also be spelt Coducci. He was one of the first to bring the classical syle of the early renaissance to Venice to replace the prevalent Gothic style.Born near Bergamo about 1440, he is first... , Renaissance Renaissance architecture Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance... , 15th-16th century; Wagner Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas... died here; Casino Casino In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions... winter seat) |
| Palazzo Belloni Battagia Palazzo Belloni Battagia Palazzo Belloni Battagia is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere of Santa Croce, between the Fondaco del Megio and Ca' Tron, near the church of San Stae.It was built in the mid-17th century under design by Baldassarre Longhena, as the residence of... (Baldassare Longhena, Baroque Baroque architecture Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and... , 17th century) |
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| Rio di Ca' Tron | |
| Ca' Tron Ca' Tron Ca' Tron is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, facing the Canal Grande. Part of the sestiere of Santa Croce, it is situated between the Palazzo Belloni Battagia and Palazzo Duodo, near the church of San Stae... (16th century, IUAV University Iuav of Venice Iuav University of Venice is a university located in Venice, northern Italy. It was founded in 1926 and is organized in 3 faculties.... ) |
Palazzo Marcello (Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Marcello was a Venetian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.-Life:... was born here) |
| Palazzo Duodo | Palazzo Erizzo |
| Palazzo Priuli Bon | Palazzo Soranzo Piovene |
| San Stae vaporetto station | Palazzo Emo at Maddalena La Maddalena, Venice The church of the Maddalena is a church in Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of Cannaregio.... |
| San Stae San Stae San Stae is a church in central Venice, in the sestiere di Santa Croce.San Stae, an abbreviation for Saint Eustachius, was founded at the beginning of 11th century and reconstructed in 17th century, has a main facade on the Grand Canal of Venice, constructed by Domenico Rossi, and richly... (18th century) |
Palazzo Molin Querini |
| Gold Craftsmen Guildhall | Rio della Maddalena |
| Rio della Rioda | Palazzo and Palazzetto Barbarigo |
| Palazzo Coccina Giunti Foscarini Giovannelli | |
| Rio della Pergola | Palazzo Gussoni Grimani Della Vida |
| Ca' Pesaro Ca' Pesaro The Ca' Pesaro is a baroque marble palace facing the Grand Canal of Venice.Originally designed by Baldassarre Longhena in mid-17th century, the construction was completed by Gian Antonio Gaspari in 1710... (Longhena, Baroque, 17th century, Museum of Modern Art) |
Rio di Noale |
| Rio di Ca' Pesaro (or delle Due Torri) | Palazzetto da Lezze |
| Palazzo Donà | Palazzo Boldù |
| Palazzo Correggio | Palazzo Contarini Pisani |
| Ca' Corner della Regina (18th century; Caterina Cornaro was born in a previous palazzo on the same area) | |
| Ca' Favretto (Giacomo Favretto Giacomo Favretto Giacomo Favretto was an Italian painter.-Biography:Born in Venice into a family of humble origin, Favretto enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1864 and presented work in 1873 at the Esposizione di Belle Arti dell’Accademia di Brera in Milan, where his genre painting attracted the attention of... lived here) |
Rio di San Felice |
| Rio di San Cassiano San Cassiano (Venice) San Cassiano is a 14th century Roman Catholic church located in the San Polo sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. A church has stood on the site since 726 with the present building dedicated to Saint Cassian of Imola being consecrated in 1376 and re-modelled during the 17th century. It has a... |
Palazzo Fontana Rezzonico (Pope Clement XIII Pope Clement XIII Pope Clement XIII , born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was Pope from 16 July 1758 to 2 February 1769.... was born here) |
| Palazzo Morosini Brandolin | Palazzo Giusti |
| Fondamenta dell'Olio | Ca' d'Oro Ca' d'Oro Ca' d'Oro is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palazzi, it has always been known as Ca' d'Oro due to the gilt and polychrome external decorations which once adorned its walls.The Palazzo was built between 1428 and 1430 for the Contarini family, who provided... (Gothic Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.... , 15th century, Galleria Franchetti) |
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| Palazzo della Pretura | Palazzo Giustinian Pesaro |
| Rio delle Beccarie | Ca' Sagredo |
| Pescaria (Gothic Revival Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England... , 20th century) |
Campo Santa Sofia |
| Traghetto Pescaria | Traghetto Santa Sofia |
| Campo della Pescaria | Palazzetto Foscari |
| Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne | |
| Fabbriche Nuove (Sansovino Jacopo Sansovino Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity... , 16th century) |
Palazzo Michiel del Brusà |
| Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana | |
| Rio dei Santi Apostoli | |
| Ca' da Mosto Ca' da Mosto The Ca' da Mosto is a thirteenth-century palace in Venice, northern Italy, the oldest building on the Grand Canal. It is in the Veneto-Byzantine style, with high narrow arches and distinctive capitals.-History:... (Venetian-Byzantine, 13th century) |
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| Palazzo Bollani Erizzo (Pietro Aretino Pietro Aretino Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.- Life :... lived here) |
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| Rio di San Giovanni Crisostomo San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice San Giovanni Grisostomo is a small church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Cannaregio, Venice.The church was founded in 1080, destroyed by fire in 1475, then rebuilt starting in 1497 by Mauro Codussi and his son, Domenico. Construction was completed in 1525. The campanile dates from the late... |
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| Fabbriche Vecchie (Scarpagnino, 16th century) | Campiello del Remer |
| Palazzo Civran | |
| Palazzo Ruzzini | |
| Rio del Fontego dei Tedeschi | |
| Palazzo dei Camerlenghi Palazzo dei Camerlenghi Palazzo dei Camerlenghi is a Renaissance palace in Venice, northern Italy, located in the sestiere of San Polo. It faces the Canal Grande, near the Rialto Bridge.-History:... (Renaissance, 16th century) |
Fondaco dei Tedeschi Fondaco dei Tedeschi The Fondaco dei Tedeschi is a historic building in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the city's German merchants... (16th century, Poste italiane Poste Italiane Poste italiane S.p.A. is the government-owned postal service of Italy, headquartered in Rome.Besides providing core postal services, Poste Italiane Group offers integrated products, as well as communication, logistics and financial services in Italy.... seat in Venice) |
| Rialto Bridge Rialto Bridge The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing line for the districts of San Marco and San Polo.- History :... |
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| Palazzo dei Dieci Savi Palazzo dei Dieci Savi Palazzo dei Dieci Savi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere of San Polo, and is not far from the Rialto Bridge, on the opposite side than the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi.... (Scarpagnino, 16th century) |
Riva del Ferro |
| Fondamenta del Vin | Rialto vaporetto station |
| Palazzo Dolfin Manin (Sansovino, Renaissance, 16th century, Banca d'Italia Banca d'Italia Banca d'Italia is the central bank of Italy and part of the European System of Central Banks. It is located in Palazzo Koch, Roma, via Nazionale... Venice seat) |
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| Rio di San Salvador | |
| Palazzo Bembo (Gothic, 15th century; Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo was an Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a literary medium, and his writings assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch... was born here) |
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| Traghetto Rialto | |
| Traghetto San Silvestro San Silvestro, Venice San Silvestro di Venezia is a church building in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice.The church is located in the business district of Rialto. Originally in the 12th century, it was under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Grado. After rebuilding, it was reconsecrated in 1422, and in 1485, it... |
Ca' Loredan Ca' Loredan Ca' Loerdan is a palace in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the sestiere of San Marco, and faces the Canal Grande, not far from the Ponte di Rialto. Together with the annexed Ca' Farsetti, it is currently home to the city's municipal council.... (Venetian-Byzantine, 13th century, Municipal seat) |
| Casa Ravà (Gothic Revival, 20th century) | Ca' Farsetti Ca' Farsetti Ca' Farsetti is a palace in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the sestiere of San Marco, and faces the Canal Grande, not far from the Ponte di Rialto.... (Venetian-Byzantine, 12th-13th century, Municipal seat) |
| San Silvestro vaporetto station | Palazzo Cavalli |
| Palazzo Barzizza | Palazzo Grimani di San Luca (Renaissance, 16th century, Appellate court Appellate court An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals or appeal court , is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal... ) |
| Palazzo Giustinian Businello | |
| Rio dei Meloni | Rio di San Luca |
| Palazzo Papadopoli | Palazzo Corner Contarini dei Cavalli |
| Palazzo Tron | |
| Palazzo Donà | Palazzo D'Anna Viaro Martinengo Volpi di Misurata |
| Palazzo Donà della Madoneta | |
| Rio della Madoneta | Palazzo Querini Benzon |
| Palazzo Bernardo (Gothic, 15th century) | Rio di Ca' Michiel |
| Palazzo Querini Dubois | Palazzo Curti Valmarana |
| Palazzo Grimani Marcello | Palazzo Corner Spinelli (Codussi, Renaissance, 15th century) |
| Ca' Cappello | Sant'Angelo vaporetto station |
| Rio di San Polo | Casa Barocci |
| Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza (16th century) | Rio di Ca' Garzoni |
| Palazzo Pisani Moretta Palazzo Pisani Moretta Palazzo Pisani Moretta is a palace situated along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy between Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza and Palazzo Tiepolo.-History:... (Gothic, 15th century) |
Palazzo Garzoni |
| Palazzo Tiepolo | Traghetto Garzoni |
| Palazzo Tiepolo Passi Palazzo Tiepolo Palazzo Tiepolo Passi is a palace in Venice, Italy, located in the San Polo sestiere.Built in the 16th century, it has traces of frescoes by Andrea Schiavone. It is now a hotel.... |
Fondaco Marcello |
| Palazzo Giustinian Persico | Palazzo Corner Gheltoff |
| Rio di San Tomà | Palazzi Mocenigo Palazzi Mocenigo The Palazzi Mocenigo consist of the following complex of palazzos on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy:* Palazzo Mocenigo Casa Nuova* Palazzo Mocenigo Casa Vecchia* Palazzo Mocenigo detto "il Nero"... (16th-17th century; Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited... , Thomas Moore Thomas Moore Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death... and Lord Byron stayed here) |
| Traghetto San Tomà | |
| Palazzo Marcello dei Leoni | |
| Palazzo Dolfin | |
| San Tomà/Frari Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is a church in Venice, northern Italy. One of the greatest churches in the city, it has the status of a minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district... vaporetto station |
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| Palazzo Dandolo | |
| Palazzo Civran Grimani | |
| Rio della Frescada | Palazzo Contarini delle Figure (Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture... stayed here) |
| Palazzo Caotorta-Angaran | |
| Palazzo Balbi Palazzo Balbi Palazzo Balbi is a palace on the Canal Grande, Venice, northern Italy. It is included in the sestiere of Dorsoduro, to the right of Ca' Foscari. Currently it is the seat of the President of the Veneto region and of the regional council.... (Vittoria Alessandro Vittoria Alessandro Vittoria was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, "one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style" and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy.... , Renaissance with Baroque elements, 16th century; Government of Veneto Government of Veneto The Regional Government of Veneto is the executive of the Veneto region of Italy.It is presided by the President of the Region , who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers , who are currently 12, including a Vice President.-Current composition:The current... seat) |
Palazzo Erizzo Nani Mocenigo |
| Rio di Ca' Foscari | |
| Ca' Foscari Palazzo Foscari Ca' Foscari, the palace of the Foscari family, is a Gothic building on the waterfront of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Built by the doge Francesco Foscari in 1453, is now the main seat of Ca' Foscari University of Venice.... (Gothic, 15th century; University of Venice University of Venice Ca' Foscari University is a university in Venice, northern Italy. It was founded in 1868 as the first Italian business college. The main building of the University, Ca’ Foscari Palace, is placed in a strategic position on the bend of the Grand Canal, in the heart of the city... main seat) |
Palazzo Da Lezze |
| Palazzi Giustinian (Gothic, 15th century; Richard Wagner stayed here) | Palazzo Moro-Lin |
| Ca' Bernardo | |
| Palazzo Bernardo Nani | Palazzo Grassi Palazzo Grassi Palazzo Grassi is an edifice in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, northern Italy... (Massari Giorgio Massari Giorgio Massari was a prominent late-Baroque Venetian architect. Among his masterpieces are the Chiesa dei Gesuati and the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky... , Neoclassical Neoclassical architecture Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing... , 18th century) |
| Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. - Design :Ca' Rezzonico stands on the right bank of the canal, at the point where it is joined by the Rio di San Barnaba. The site was previously occupied by two houses... (Longhena, Massari; 17th-18th century; Museum of 18th century-Century Culture) |
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| Rio di San Barnaba | San Samuele San Samuele, Venice San Samuele is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It is located in the eponymous campo near Palazzo Grassi and Palazzo Malipiero. It is entitled to the Biblical Samuel, because in the interior are housed relics traditionally attributed to him.... |
| Palazzo Contarini Michiel | San Samuele vaporetto station |
| Ca' Rezzonico vaporetto station | Casa Francheschinis (20th century) |
| Traghetto San Barnaba | Traghetto San Samuele |
| Palazzetto Stern | Palazzo Malipiero Palazzo Malipiero Palazzo Malipiero is a palace in Venice, Italy. It is located on the Grand Canal in the central San Samuele square.It stands just across from Palazzo Grassi Exhibition Center.It is situated at the crossroads of the city's cultural and artistic areas... |
| Rio Malpaga | |
| Palazzo Moro ("Otello's house") | |
| Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore is a late 15th-century Gothic palace in Venice, Italy, that once belonged to the noble Loredan family. Located in the Dorsoduro sestiere , it was called "dell'ambasciatore" because it was the home of the ambassadors of the Austrian Empire to the Republic.One... (Gothic, 15th century) |
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| Casa Mainella | |
| Rio di San Trovaso San Trovaso San Trovaso is a church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy.The church dates to at least the 1028. The present church was rebuilt by 1584. The architect was likely Francesco Smeraldi... |
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| Palazzi Contarini degli Scrigni and Corfù | Ca' del Duca |
| Rio del Duca | |
| Palazzo Falier | |
| Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara | Palazzo Giustinian Lolin (Longhena, 17th century) |
| Palazzo Querini | |
| Scuola Grande Scuole Grandi of Venice The Scuole Grandi were confraternity or sodality institutions in Venice, Italy. They were founded as early as the 13th century as charitable and religious organizations for the laity.... di Santa Maria della Carità (Massari, 18th century; Gallerie dell'Accademia) |
Palazzo Civran Badoer Barozzi |
| Accademia vaporetto station | Rio di San Vidal |
| Santa Maria della Carità (Gothic, 15th century; deconsecrated, now part of Gallerie dell'Accademia museum) | Campo San Vidal |
| Ponte dell'Accademia Ponte dell'Accademia The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Grand Canal. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia galleries. The bridge links the sestiere of Dorsoduro and San Marco.... |
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| Palazzo Brandolin Rota (Toti dal Monte Toti Dal Monte Antonietta Meneghel , better known by her stage name Toti Dal Monte, was a celebrated Italian operatic soprano with a sweet and limpid lyric voice. She was a favourite artist of the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini... owned it) |
Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is a palace in Venice, Italy, not far from the Ponte dell'Accademia and next to the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal of Venice. Since 1999 it has been the seat of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti and frequently houses cultural events.The palace was... (Gothic, 15th century; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti) |
| Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo (Gothic and Renaissance elements, 15th century) | |
| Palazzo Balbi Valier | Palazzi Barbaro Palazzi Barbaro The Palazzi Barbaro — also known as Palazzo Barbaro, Ca' Barbaro, and Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis — are a pair of adjoining palaces, in the San Marco district of Venice, northern Italy. They were formerly one of the homes of the patrician Barbaro family... |
| Palazzo Loredan (Cini Foundation) | Palazzo Benzon Foscolo |
| Rio di San Vio | Palazzetto Pisani |
| Campo San Vio | Rio del Santissimo |
| Palazzo Barbarigo Palazzo Barbarigo Palazzo Barbarigo is a palace in Venice, Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of the city. It was originally built in the 16th century. Today it is one of the more opulent palazzi on the canal, distinguished by its mosaics of Murano glass applied in 1886... (modern mosaics) |
Palazzo Succi |
| Palazzo Da Mula | Casa Stecchini |
| Palazzo Centani Morosini | |
| Ca' Biondetti (Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures... lived here) |
Casina delle Rose (Antonio Canova Antonio Canova Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh... and Gabriele D'Annunzio Gabriele D'Annunzio Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, and dramatist... worked here) |
| Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Peggy Guggenheim Collection Peggy Guggenheim Collection The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.... ) |
Palazzo Corner della Ca' Granda (Sansovino, Renaissance, 16th century; Province of Venice Province of Venice The Province of Venice is a province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital is the city of Venice.It has an area of 2,467 km², and a total population of 829,418 . There are 44 comuni in the province . As of 2005, the main comuni by population are:-External links:* * : photos of... and Prefect Prefect Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.... seat) |
| Rio delle Torreselle | Rio di San Maurizio (Venice) |
| Palazzo Dario Palazzo Dario Palazzo Dario is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro sestiere on the Campiello Barbaro... (Renaissance, 15th century) |
Palazzo Minotto |
| Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff (Eleonora Duse Eleonora Duse -Life and career:Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and began acting as a child. Both her father and her grandfather were actors, and she joined the troupe at age four. Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently... lived here) |
Palazzo Barbarigo |
| Rio della Fornace | Rio di Santa Maria Zobenigo Santa Maria Zobenigo The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy.The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation), is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the... |
| Palazzo Salviati | Santa Maria del Giglio vaporetto station |
| Palazzo Orio Semitecolo Benzon | Palazzo Venier Contarini |
| Traghetto S.Gregorio | Traghetto S.Maria del Giglio |
| Casa Santomaso | Palazzo Pisani Gritti |
| Palazzo Genovese (Gothic Revival, 19th century) | Rio delle Ostreghe |
| San Gregorio ex-abbey | Palazzo Ferro Fini (Regional Council of Veneto Regional Council of Veneto The Regional Council of Veneto is the regional parliament of Veneto.It was first elected in 1970, when the ordinary Regions were instituted, on the basis of the Constitution of Italy of 1948.-Composition:... ) |
| Rio della Salute | |
| Salute vaporetto station | Palazzo Contarini Fasan (Gothic , 15th century; "Desdemona's house") |
| Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute The Basilica of St Mary of Health , commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the Italian city of Venice. It stands on a narrow finger of land between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco making the church visible... (Longhena, Baroque, 17th century) |
Palazzo Contarini |
| Palazzo Michiel Alvisi | |
| Patriarchal Seminary | Palazzo Badoer Tiepolo |
| Punta della Dogana | Palazzo Treves de Bonfili |
| Rio di San Moisè San Moisè The Chiesa di San Moisè is a church in Venice, northern Italy. It is dedicated to Moses as, like the Byzantines, the Venetians tended to canonise Old Testament prophets. It also honours Moisè Venier, who paid for it to be rebuilt in the 9th century. The elaborate Baroque facade is covered in... |
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| Hotel Bauer (Gothic Revival, 19th century) | |
| Ca' Giustinian (Gothic, 15th century; municipal, Venice Biennale Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years... offices) |
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| Palazzo Vallaresso Erizzo | |
| Harry's Bar | |
| San Marco Piazza San Marco Piazza San Marco , is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza". All other urban spaces in the city are called "campi"... /Vallaresso vaporetto station |
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| Fonteghetto della Farina (Renaissance, 15th century) | |
| Venice Pavilion | |
See also
- List of buildings and structures in Venice
- Republic of VeniceRepublic of VeniceThe Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century until 1797. It was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice and is often referred to as La Serenissima, in...