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Exploring Venice - A Walk Around Doge's Palace

From narrow streets to gondolas and colorful houses... Venice is a city you must see. One of the most beautiful and enigmatic cities in the world, Venice, is surely one of the places where you have to go even once in your life.

Known as the city of lovers, artists and poets, Venice is a magical city. One of the most important tourist destinations in the world, Venice is renowned for the architectural buildings that will impress you. It is considered to be one of the most romantic cities, thanks to the canals that you go on with gondolas.

Venice is made up of 118 islands and is divided into six parts, called sestiere: Dorsoduro, Santa Croce, San Polo, San Marco, Cannaregio and Castello. It has over 120 churches, 175 canals, 38 km long and 398 bridges.

This unique city has many tourist attractions, including the Basilica of San Marco, the Grand Canal and, of course, San Marco Square.

We arrived in Venice, Santa Lucia Station, with the train that we took from Vicenza.

There was our accommodation. We walked down the narrow streets to San Marco Square. If you do not like crowded places, you can go on sight routes, but you won't see the stores with colorful masks and souvenirs.

San Marco Square is the central square of Venice, the heart of the city, where are the most famous buildings of the city: St. Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco), Doge's Palace and Torre dell'Orologio, a clock tower built between 1496 and 1506. What and how much you want to see is up to you. Venice is willing to show you everything if you are willing to pay.

San Marco Square is a place where you no longer want to leave, an animated place that everyone is heading for.

The largest canal in Venice, called the Grand Canal, has the highest water traffic. Gondola is a slow and expensive means of transport, and there are other options, for example the famous vaporetto.

Grand Canal

The Grand Canal is about 4 kilometers long and variable width - ranging from 30 to 70 meters. The Canal starts from Piazzale Roma (the place where the Mestre bus leaves you) and ends at San Marco.

Rialto Bridge

Going by vaporetto, at some point you will see the most famous bridge in Venice - Rialto, one of the 4 bridges that cross the Canal Grande.

Venetians are culinary masters, and your walk through the city will also be a real gastronomic experience.

In the morning, take a long breakfast at an Italian café with espresso and a chocolate croissant.

Here are 10 tips for a holiday in Venice

You should avoid the July-August holidays for a trip to Venice, but also for February, when the famous local carnival takes place. They are the most crowded and expensive periods of the year. In addition, tourists complain about the unbearable odor of water during the summer. The months of May to June and September to October are reasonable both in terms of prices and the low number of tourists or temperatures.

Fix some points/places you want to reach and do not have a purpose to check them in a certain order! Sooner or later, you'll still get to them. Maybe by chance. At some point you will get bored to look at the map.

If you want to go with the gondola, try to lower the cost (80 euros) by going to a group. It will be less romantic, but you will be able to afford it. Sometimes you can negotiate with the gondolier.

Venice offers accommodation in general at high prices. You can find accommodation in Maestre, which is very close to Venice Santa Lucia Train Station. If you stay in Venice, you will see that it is very crowded and noisy. The city is full of tourists. Find a hotel that is not located on the main tourist pedestrian routes.

If you choose the option of accommodation at the periphery, you have nothing to worry about not staying permanently in the heart of Venice, because the transport is very well established.

Visit the stores and you will find everything from watches to all sorts of ornaments. Not all the items inscribed with "Murano Glass" are original.

Avoid eating in San Marco Square because it is very expensive, it is best to go to the restaurants on the sidewalks. A lot of terraces waits for their customers. A coffee costs 6-7 euros in the San Marco Square, and you can find it at half price if you go 2-3 streets further.
It is good to be in shape when you visit Venice because you will have a long walk.
Avoid taxis on water and take with vaporetto. A ticket costs 7.5 euros. Parking rates, whether it's in the port or at the railway station near Piazzale Roma, are quite expensive, reaching tens of euros for a single day.

You can not leave Venice without going to Boutique del Gelato, on San Lio Street. Although it is crowded, you will eat the best ice cream in your life.
Venice is a quiet city, but of course, there are also bars open until late, if you want to have fun.
You can also visit the islands around Venice: Murano, Burano and Torcello.

Conclusions

One of the most stylish cities in the world, Venice deserves to be visited every season.
You will be impressed by the majesty of the palaces, the romanticism of the bridges and the elegance of the canals, as well as the hotels with a seductive atmosphere. Definitely, in Venice there are two of the most stylish hotels in the world: Danieli and Cipriani, where Hollywood celebrities lived like Angelina Jolie, Johnny Deep or Julia Roberts.

If you've been to Venice lately and you've found some great places, reasonable prices, and good tips to tell others, I'm waiting for comments with a lot of thanks!

I've already missed Venice. In the following posts I will show you Verona, Padova and Vicenza.

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10 tips for a holiday in Venice, Italy

From narrow streets to gondolas and colorful houses... Venice is a city you must see. One of the most beautiful and enigmatic cities in th...

10 tips for a holiday in Venice, Italy

Hello friends

Today I want to take you to the discovery of a place to which I am very attached, because I often go there to visit my aunt and uncle who live in this beautiful village in Emilia Romagna, which is called Savignano sul Panaro and is located in the province of Modena, to give you some idea of how far it is from Modena, let's say we are about 20 km from this important city in Emilia Romagna.

What I like most about Savignano sul Panaro, is the fact that it is surrounded by beautiful hills, the altitude of these hills is about 400 metres, in fact we can't call them mountains, but it is very nice because in these places there are lots of paths certainly for trekking enthusiasts, but also I have always met lots of people who also go horseback riding, because the beauty of these paths is that they go through beautiful woods.

I honestly never understood what it was for. It seems to me that it was a kind of balanceThis is my uncles house

These photos are from a few weeks ago, and as you can see the hills are practically dry, because in Italy we are going through a bad period of drought, which has been going on for quite some time, in fact I am very worried and I think that this summer, unfortunately, if the rains don't come, they will have to ration the water almost certainly.

Honestly, I don't know much about this village, I've always been around it since I was very young because of course I used to come here with my parents, to visit my aunt and uncle, and as I told you, I've always been fascinated more by the nature surrounding this beautiful village, it's not very populated, in fact the inhabitants are not even ten thousand, and it's dominated by the castle that still today offers these unique and very suggestive views, as I told you, over the hills but also over the Modenese plain.

I have always been fascinated by this beautiful Pozzo since I was a child

There are lots of wine cellars nearby because the farmland near the hamlet is used for growing vines, and so the primary production is definitely the local wine but also the famous balsamic vinegar which, as you well know, derives from wine. In fact, I have to say that in terms of cuisine, I have always eaten well in these places, the typical cured meats and cheeses, and I like coming back here also because my uncles often prepare more traditional Emilian dishes, which are tortellini.

Those times I've been here, I've always seen so many young people and couples living here, and I've always asked my uncles and aunts that it must be quite complicated to live in these villages far away from the big cities, but they really told me that lately a lot of young people, especially young families, have decided to come and live here in Savignano sul Panaro, precisely because of the tranquillity was in relaxation that there is in this place, and this really struck me, as I am used to living in Milan, where I always need stimulation, and maybe after a while in this village I would get bored.

from these images you can understand how dry the ground is

Thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed the photos, I tried to do the best I could, but unfortunately I am not a professional photographer and it shows, see you next time and have a nice day everyone.

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Savignano sul Panaro, the land of my uncles

Hello friends Today I want to take you to the discovery of a place to which I am very attached, because I often go there to visit my aun...

Savignano sul Panaro, the land of my uncles

A journey through time

It was when I got separated from my Venice tour, so I walked around the streets thinking If I should do a gondola ride, since it was a bit expensive for a single person. And I stumbled upon this place – Palazzo Fortuny.

Palazzo Fortuny - Once owned by the Pesaro family, this Gothic building in Campo San Beneto, near the church of the same name, was transformed by Mariano Fortuny into his own photography, stage-design, textile-design and painting atelier. Source

Paradise for art lovers

The building from the outside looked Gothic -style, not sure what was to expect, I went inside with not much hope. As soon as I entered, it felt like a completely different world, it was an artist’s paradise with a rich and varied art collection from statues, to textiles, architecture, paintings, and much more.

The place is a perfect intersection of art, design, and architecture.. But what excited me most was the paintings and the Delphos gowns. I have admired them since the time I read about the finely pleated Delphos gown from the ancient Greek sculptures and I can see it close, it was beyond anything for me!

DELPHOS GOWNS

Delphos pleated dress – Mariano Fortuny

Printed silk tunic over a Delphos dress by Mariano Fortuny - Palazzo Fortuny

The dress was inspired by the Hellenistic classical sculpture of the Charioteer of Delphi, discovered in 1896.

You enter a dark room, and from the first glance, the paintings capture your eyes and thoughts. It is a mysterious place, and so much to see, the walls are adorned with rich tapestry, and paintings, the space with a collection of paintings and sculpture, furnishing lamps, theatre models, the famous Delphos and theatre costumes. Every single artwork is a masterpiece in itself which cannot be missed. you can't help but marvel at these incredible work of arts.

The Bottega Cadorin - A Dynasty of Venetian Artists, Sculptor - Vincenzo Cadorin

I would recommend anyone going to Venice to include this if you are even remotely interested in the arts.

The collections within the museum comprise an extensive number of pieces and materials which reflect the various fields investigated in the artist’s work. These are organized under certain specific headings: painting, light, photography, and textiles.

• Painting: there are around 150 paintings by Mariano Fortuny, which illustrate the various phases of his career as an artist, where the Wagnerian period (until 1899) holds a central place.

• Light: the main focus of Fortuny’s work was light design, perfectly identified with the creation of the celebrated theatre dome.

• Photography: photographs exhibited were taken either from the collection left by Mariano Fortuny or from the Musei Civici di Venezia's collection, comprising works from 1850 to the Second World War, in a rich variety of styles, techniques, and historic images.

• Fabrics: the collection of clothes, fabrics, prints, materials and ornamental clothes make up a rich sample of Fortuny’s work in the field of fabrics and fashion design, in which the artist took ornamental motifs and reinterpreted them in a modern decorative style. Source