The Doge’s Palace is one of the symbols of Venice and it was the residence of the Doge. Its majestic facade, a masterpiece of Venetian Gothic architecture, is located in the monumental Piazza San Marco between the Piazzetta and the lagoon.
Now, Doge’s Palace is part of the network of museums that comes under the management of the Venice Museum Authority. Inside, the visitor can see paintings by Tiziano, Tiepolo and Tintoretto, such as the Doge’s apartments, the prisons, and the loggias on the Piazza and the Lagoon.

Saint Mark’s Basilica is a beautiful and majestic building that Venetians enriched over the centuries with precious adornments such as columns, capitals, or friezes brought from the Orient. The cathedral is a masterpiece of Byzantine and Gothic architecture: covered with a texture of gilded mosaics, made in Byzantium and Venice, it is enriched with oriental marble. Numerous spires and golden domes complete its wonderful facade. The blending of styles and the richness of the materials give to St. Mark’s Basilica the characteristic polychromy.

St Mark’s Square is considered one of the most beautiful squares in the world. It’s the heart of Venice, a huge and elegant marble salon enclosed in the most important buildings of Venice: the St Mark’s Basilica and its campanile, the St Mark’s Clocktower, The Doge’s Palace and the Venice’s museums. The majestic St Mark’s Square welcomes the important events of city life and it is the central landmark and gathering place for visitors every day strolling along the elegant floor or under the ancient arcades, including cafés and luxury shops.

The Grand Canal is the main canal in Venice. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. The Grand Canal banks are lined with hundreds of beautiful buildings, belonging to Venice’s patrician families. Going on a gondola along this elegant and charming way, you can admire the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal: the Scalzi Bridge, the recent Constitution Bridge, the Accademia Bridge and the famous Rialto, the oldest bridge across the canal. Every year, on the first Sunday of September, along the Grand Canal takes place the Historical Regatta, one of the most spectacular, picturesque and moving event of Venetian life.

The Bridge of Sighs is one of the major attractions in Venice. Anyone who has had the fortune to visit Venice preserves the image of this elegant baroque building. The bridge name, often linked to the romantic gondola rides of lovers, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of Venice out the window before being taken down to the Piombi’s prisons. The most famous of the prisoners who crossed the Bridge of Sighs was the noble Giacomo Casanova.

The Teatro la Fenice is one of the most prestigious theaters in the world, as well as the place where they were staged premieres of works by artists including Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti; located in the district of San Marco, not far from the church of Santa Maria del Giglio, the Scala Contarini del Bovolo and the church of San Moisè. The theater, designed by Gian Antonio Selva and built between 1790 and 1792, risked total destruction in 1836, due to a serious fire. The architects Tommaso and Gian Battista Meduna restored it, adapting the original project. Subsequent alterations were made, from 1936 onwards, by Eugenio Miozzi. A large staircase precedes the neoclassical facade, which has a pronaos with four Corinthian columns, at the top of which is a balustrade. In the niches are carved the Dance and Music, works by Gian Battista Meduna and over the reliefs with masks, made by the same author. In the frieze in the center is the Phoenix. Memorial busts and tombstones of famous people, such as Carlo Goldoni, Antonio Selva, Gioacchino Rossini, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Giuseppe Verdi, are located in the atrium and below the pronaos.

Inside, the neoclassical Apollinea room, with four levels of boxes and gallery, is the largest of the theater and was conceived by the architect Selva. Then there is the Sala del Teatro, with a capacity of one thousand and five hundred spectators, richly decorated with stucco, painted panels and gold carvings and fully restored in 1936. In 1937, Nino Barbantini renewed the stage and the entrance halls. On January 29, 1996, a fire destroyed the theatre, which was later rebuilt.