The Byzantine Mosaics in Venice, Murano and Torcello In its earliest days Venice was a province of the Byzantine Empire. Though soon emerging as an independent state, the cultural and artistic influences of Byzantium on Venice were to remain evidently strong…Continue Reading →
Byzantine Venice: Mosaics and Icons Centuries of commercial and cultural interchange with the eastern Christian Empire had lent earlier medieval art and architecture in Venice a strongly Byzantine character. Many artists from the Eastern Empire worked in the city producing…Continue Reading →
All that you should see in Venice in ONE tour! This tour is dedicated to the most important monuments and traditions of Venice: all that you cannot miss, even if you have little time available. The tour begins with a walk through…Continue Reading →
Gothic Venice: Ca’ d’Oro and Madonna dell’Orto The Grand Canal, as the “main Street” of the city, was meant to impress foreigners and delight natives. We have only a dim sense of what the canal looked like in the past,…Continue Reading →
The Doge’s Palace, the Golden Basilica and St Mark’s Square St. Mark’s Square, once the administrative center of the Venetian Republic, is an example of spectacular urban planning that offers a dramatic impact both for its monumental buildings, and for…Continue Reading →
The Dawn of Renaissance in Venice: the church of San Zaccaria, the Scuola degli Schiavoni and the Miracoli’s Church Renaissance reached Venice relatively late, maybe due to a strain of conservatism in the Venetian character or to the perennial local…Continue Reading →
The notorious Secret Trails of the Doge’s Palace. In addition to the institutional chambers, richly decorated with impressive paintings and gilded frames, the Doge’s Palace offers the possibility to visit the secret rooms where the most important activities related to…Continue Reading →
From St Mark’s Square to Rialto: what you don’t usually see when you walk through the most popular alleys of Venice You probably won’t believe it possible: walking down the most “people-jammed” alleys of Venice, where you might have already…Continue Reading →
Venetian Painting from the 14th to the 18th Centuries: the Accademia Galleries The Accademia Galleries house the world’s greatest collection of Venetian paintings in existence: from the earliest masters of the 14th C, when the traditional allegiance to Byzantium gradually…Continue Reading →
Castello: the old Shipyard, San Francesco della Vigna and Santi Giovanni e Paolo Starting from St Mark’s, we will soon leave behind us the madding crowd of the Square to venture ourselves in the quiet and charming little alleys of…Continue Reading →