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Venice Italy - Venezia
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Hotels in Venice and
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Museums Reservations
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Doge's Palacemm Doge's Palace - Secret Itineraries and Ca'
Rezzonico.
 | DOGE'S PALACE OF VENICE -
Masterpiece of the gothic art, Palazzo Ducale is an
impressive structure of layers of constructive and
ornamental elements: from its ancient bases from the 1300's
to the renaissance additions and the splendid manneristic
signs. |
| SECRET TRAILS OF THE DOGE'S PALACE -
The itinerary begins from the rooms of the Notaio Ducale,
that worked as secretary for several magistratures of the
Republic, and those of the Deputato alla Segreta del
Consiglio dei Diceci, that took care of private archives.
Rooms are comunicating and can be reached from the Atrio
Quadrato. |
| CA' REZZONICO - Palazzo Rezzonico
was constructedin 1649 for the Bon family, following a
project by architect Baldassarre Longhena.The prestigious
facade on Canal Grande and the second floor followed the
original project, while to the back of the palace were added
an entrance from land, the Honor Stairs and the great dance
hall. |
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| Museum cards
| 700's Area Museums Card
| CA' REZZONICO - The museum of the 18th
Century Art is set in one of the most beautiful palaces on
the Grand Canal in Venice, Ca' Rezzonico. The Rezzonico
family became part of the new aristocracy and lived in this
splendid dwelling, which was completed by the architect
Giorgio Massari in 1756. |
| CA' MOCENIGO - The Center for Fabric and
Costume Studies took its seat in 1985 at the sumptuous
Palazzo Mocenigo, which had been left to the city of Venice
by Alvise Nicolò Mocenigo forty years earlier. In addition
to housing a specialized library, the museum conserves an
extensive collection of 18th-century fabrics, laces, dresses
and suits. |
| CARLO GOLDONI'S HOUSE - Palazzo Centanni is
a 15th century building with a pointed arch facade facing
the canal and visible from Ponte San Toma with a lovely
courtyard and an open air stairway. In it in 1707 was born
Carlo Goldoni, the creator of modern theatre. |
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| Islands Museums Cards
| MURANO GLASS MUSEUM - Glass Museum is
located in the Palazzo Giustinian near the Murano island
center. The museum holds samples of glass from Egyptian
times through the present day, and the displays show how the
art and manufacture of glass developed over the centuries. |
| BURANO LACE MUSEUM - The word "merletto"(lace),
which appeared in Venetian documents as early as the 15th
century, comes from the word "merli" which means
the architectural elements that decorated medieval
buildings, and later, the palaces of Venice in Flamboyant
Gothic style. |
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| Piazza San Marco Museums Card
| DOGE'S PALACE - Masterpiece of the gothic
art, Palazzo Ducale is an impressive structure of layers of
constructive and ornamental elements: from its ancient bases
from the 1300's to the renaissance additions and the
splendid manneristic signs. |
| CORRER MUSEUM - The Correr Museum takes its
name from Teodoro Correr, noble of an ancient venetian
family, that donated his art collection to the city,
together with Palazzo in San Zan Degolà, where it was kept,
and to further resources to preserve and increase the
collection, the main nucleus of the Civic Museums of Venice. |
| NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM - Museum is
housed in some environments of the Sansoviniana Library and
of the New Procuraties and keep an important collection of
Greek sculptures, fragments of architectures, sculptures,
busts, epigraphs and a numismatics collection (from the
third to the first century B.C.). |
| MONUMENTAL ROOMS OF THE MARCIAN LIBRARY -
The Marcian Library (that is, San Mark's, Venice saint
patron, library) initiated its collection in 1468 when
Cardinal Bessarione donated his collection of 750 codes. In
1537 Jacopo Sansovino designed the building to keep the
library collection, mixing the Renassaince and the Venetian
styles. |
| CLOCK TOWER - It is placed to east side of
the Old Procuraties, just to the entrance for the
Haberdasheries. The Tower was built on a project of Mauro
Codussi between 1496 and 1499; in 1755 it suffered an
intervention of George Massari who consolidated its
structure. |
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| Gondola tours
| What would Venice be without a
gondola ride. Buy tickets for a Gondola ride, Gondola serenade,
Gondola ride with lunch, Gondola ride deluxe, Afternoon tour
with Gondola Promenade and Gondola serenade in tour. |
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| Islands tours
| Water water everywhere. See the
islands with a Half day tour of Islands, Full day Tour of
Islands or the Three Islands Tour. |
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| City tours
| Get acquainted with the city the
easy way. Take a city tour. Try a City Tour on Foot, the
Panoramic Tour of Canal Grande or a Historical Venice tour. |
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| City tours of Padova
| Padova's proud history is no
longer a well kept secret. This charming university city, the
ancient "city of water" can now be discovered with
City Sightseeing Padova. |
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| Hotel reservations
| See what's available locally. Some
of these properties may may be available to you elsewhere. |
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