Venice
is a unique city for different reasons.VENEZIA
Venice
is a unique city for different reasons.
Firs of all Art. In fact, the list of citizen jewelry that Venice offers is endless: the most important is Piazza San Marco that, with mosaics of the Basilica, the bell tower and the glory of Pala d’Oro, has become symbol and heart of the city. Other architecture of Venice are Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Fari and Santissimi Giovanni and Paolo Gothic cathedral; Santa Maria della Salute a Baroque basilica and the Renaissance Santa Maria dei Miracoli and San Zaccaria. Venice has also a wide range of artistic buildings: Palazzo Ducale, Ca’d’Oro, Ca’Vedramin Calergi.
Moreover, in Venice you can find several museums like Gallerie dell’Accademia, Archeological Museum, Galleria Fianchetti, Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia which offer a vision of Venice art, but also European and world art, of all ages.
But the beauty of Venice is not only in the art: Venice is also the atmosphere you can breathe in its “calli”, the charm of its 400 bridges on the canals, the emotion of a gondola ride.
Venice is the only one who can provide a romantic “promenade” by gondola along its canals.
Venice is an attraction even for gourmets: if you are in Venice, you will run into “bacari” (typical pubs of Venice ) where you can taste the “cicheti”, exclusive Venetian dishes, accompanied by an “ombra”, a small glass of wine.
And
if you want to live a very special experience, visit Venice during the carnival.
The Carnival of Venice is one of the most famous in the world, where hundreds of
magnificent masks paint the streets of Venice with an incredible variety of
colours. During that time Venice is a totality of music and fun!
Venice is surrounded by other islands that are part of the laguna; some of the most famous are Murano, known for the glass elaboration, Burano, for the lace, and Torcello famous for its beautiful Churches.
It is a
city that must be discovered on foot, perhaps by losing oneself in the magical
labyrinth created by lanes, small and large squares, and canals. Breathing in
the atmosphere that is knowledgable of distant places Venice is a magical city
par excellence, one of the most scenic and extraordinary where history and art
reflect in the peaceful water of the Lagoon. Here there is romance, poetry, and
melancholy... So much has been written about Venice that it seems superfluous to
remember that this is one of the most unique cities in the world. It has
justifiably been named by UNESCO as being a site of important human heritage not
only for its artistic wealth, but also for its extraordinary co-existence of the
activity of mankind and its natural situation on the Lagoon. A unique specimen,
therefore, as its destiny has been forever linked to water: that of the lagoon
and the sea. Every island has been wrenched apart by the water's devastating and
hidden force and the initially hostile environment has since been taken into
account, respected and modelled judiciously.
Thanks
to the sea, Venetians have made up for the lack of cultivable land and raw
materials with the fleet, born as a means of subsistence, has been transformed
into a source of power and wealth. The colour of the water, its ability to
reflect the sky, the façade of frescoed palaces by the best artists of the
period, Tiziano, Bellini, Giorgione... the Venetian colour that is born from the
water and takes on a special element from superimposing Florentine design. It
seems that even in art, the city was destined to be linked to its environment.
The architecture also takes the sea as its theme: the hulls of boats are copied
in the roofs of the churches, the spiral adornments that embellish the Gothic
portals, the marble and statues that adorn palaces and houses, all of this
retells the past maritime foundations, of prolific commerce and war. Today the
stones of Venice are like an open book that tells a great history. To understand
the city in greater depth, it is essential to leave the traditional torist
routes and to lose onself in the labyrinth of land and water that continually
meet and deepen. Venice guarantees emotional enchantment all year round. In the
evenings, in that mysterious silence that is only possible in Venice, the city
becomes even more extraordinary and dreamlike, leaving us time to abandon
ourselves to romance, poetry, and melancholy...
