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Venice Art & Discovery tour

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Venice Art & Discovery  - Sample tour

4 Nights

DAY 1
(Arrival day in Venice) Arrive in Venice or the Lido by your preferred choice of transport. You'll have time to settle in and explore the local area before dinner.

Day 2
Start your tour with a walk around the St Marks Square where you'll see the magnificent St Mark's Basillica and the Doge's Palace. Afterwards get a bird's eye view of Venice's beautiful palazzo and canals from the public viewing area in the Campanile. After lunch (not inc.) see more sumptuous architecture by taking a vaporetto (waterbus) along the Grand Canal to the amazing Rialto Bridge. Don't forget your sketchpads! . Other sites worth visiting
The Lido di Jesolo
Half-day excursion to Padua and or Verona


Day 3
You can't visit Venice without a full day trip to the lagoon and its islands, San Michele, the city's cemetery; Murano, and its world famous glassworks; Burano, the fisherman's island with its picture postcard cottages and tiny Torcello Island with its medieval monastery.

Day 4
Today you'll see how the Italian masters depicted Venice's breathtaking beauty with a visit to the Gallerie dell'Accademia, one of the world's greatest art treasure houses. The nearby Peggy Guggenheim Gallery is also worth a visit if you have time. The eccentric expat amassed an eclectic art collection during her time in the city.

Day 5
Time allowing, students may have the opportunity for last minute shopping before departing for the UK.

Visits can be made to: 

Galleria dell'Accademia
The city's most important and prestigious art gallery features an impressive collection of Venetian paintings and works by such artists as Bellini, Titian and Mantegna

Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace)
The Doge's Palace, Venice, has façades which date from 1309-1424, designed by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon. The palace, started in the ninth century, several times rebuilt, and completed in the Renaissance period, forms part of that great scheme of town-planning which was carried out through successive centuries.

Ca d'Oro (Franchetti Gallery)
The Ca' d'Oro is one of the most famous civilian buildings of Venice. It was built for the Procuratore Marino Contarini, with gothic forms, between 1422 and 1440, by Lombard hands, headed by Matteo Raverti, and by Venetian stone-cutters, directed by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon. The last owner of the palace was, after different vicissitudes, the musician and collector Giorgio Franchetti, who financed its restoration (1916) and finally gave it to the State, together with its rich collection, that still is the core of the museum. The museum has been modernly re-rganised between 1980 and 1984, and houses a wonderful art collection, composed by paintings of Venetian, Tuscan and Flemish school, splendid bronzes, renaissance sculptures and an interesting ceramic collection.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

National Archeaological Museum
Important collection of Greek sculptures, marble fragments and Roman coins. It was established in 1523 when Cardinal Grimani bequest many Roman pieces

Correr Museum
Interesting collection of objects and documents on the history of the Serenissima Republic and a very important picture gallery. The first hall contains sculptures by Antonio Canova. The museum of the Italian Risorgimento, situated in the same building, contains various material on the history of Venice in the late 18th century until the annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.

Vetario Art Museum (Murano)
Visit this magnificent glass museum. The museum is within Palazzo Giustiniani and houses various collections of glass works describing the history of glass making in Venice. There is an archaeological collection and a modern glass section.

Merletti School (Burano)
The 14th-century Palazzo Rodotà houses a collection of laces from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, realized on the island, whose tradition in lace making dates back to the 15th century.

Carnival Masks Workshop
We are able to arrange a visit to a Carnival Masks workshop.   

 

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