You cannot say that you visited Venice, if you didn’t stroll around the Giardini della Biennale. The magnificent Giardini della Biennale is located in the Castello sestiere and it is the greenest area of a parkland in the historic centre of Venice. Also known as Giardini Napoleonici, it was built by the French general in...
The exhibit is part of the schedule of Le città in festa, a plan of events scattered all over Venice, including both mainland and islands, in the period between October and December. The art pieces of the artist from Bologna invade the inner and outer spaces of the Hotel Hilton Molino Stucky of Venice, which...
Those who want to visit Venice cannot miss the island of Giudecca, which has always been an important part of the lagoon city history. Once it was called Spinalonga because of its long shape that resembles a fishbone, while nowadays it is called Giudecca (in dialect Giudèca, in ancient times Zudèca or Zuèca). There are...
La Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, one of the most famous buildings of Venice, was built around 1630, following a plague epidemic, to honor the Blessed Virgin and celebrate the end of that terrible event. The basilica, directly overlooking the Grand Canal, is accessed by a staircase that seems to emerge from the water;...
The immense and gothic Palazzo Zaguri in Campo San Maurizio is hosting the unmissable exhibition Da Kandinsky a Botero. Tutti in un filo. Called Tutti in un filo (“all in one thread”), the exhibition consists of one hundred articles woven to the frame with foresight and attention to the most subtle detail. It is a...
La Biennale di Venezia is one of the most famous an celebrated artistic exhibitions, well-known all over the world for its expositions, including the Peggy Guggenheim collection and the related International Film Festival. Its story gets back centuries: in 1895 the first International Exhibition of Venice was organized to celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of...
A holiday in Venice isn’t over until you get in a gondola: this peculiar boat is a symbol of the Venetian lagoon, for its elegance and its presence in the canals. Gondola’s history is very old: some paintings show it since 1400-1500, but it’s only from 1600-1700 that we can recognize its actual structure. Its...
Did you know? Our restaurant is a few feet away from the well-known St. Mark square, famous throughout the world for the historical cathedral built in 828 d.C. and reconstructed in 1063 d.C. Its majesty doesn’t stop to the building exterior, above which you should admire the famous five cupolas: once entered the church you...