Venice, Italy
May 20-23, 2007
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Venice, Italy May 20-23, 2007
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Dear accompanying person, please find here a very exciting programme for you. The programme has been organized by a well qualified guide of Venice that has chosen very particular and interesting excursions. The presented excursions will touch places that are not often visited, both for logistic reasons (private agreements are often required) and for the fact that these places are not largely publicized. However they are as beautiful as the most famous places. Detailed descriptions of the Tours are reported in the next pages.
Just a recommendation for the two excursions of Monday. Please note that unless you are used to walking several hours a day, it is not recommended to participate to both Tour 1 and 2 on the same day, it can be very strenuous as most of the itineraries are done walking up and down Venice bridges.
TOUR 1: An 17th and 18th Century itinerary in Venice: the art of Tiepolo and Pietro Longhi: Cà Zenobio and Cà Rezzonico 15 Euro (include guide and admission to museum), MAX 25 person.
visit at 9.30 am: Cà Zenobio Far from the tourist routes, Cà Zenobio faces onto the quiet “Rio dei Carmini” on a site characterised by serene intimacy, unchanged by time. The palace was built towards the end of the 17th century and is one of the most important examples in Venetian late-Baroque style, not only for the architecturally but also for the decoration of the interior that involved three important artists: Antonio Gaspari, that drew up a project very unusual for Venice, Louis Dorigny, a French painter who was commissioned the composition on the ceiling of the great ballroom, and for the stucco- work, the Zenobios called in Abbondio Stazio, who was to become one of the most important stucco-worker in Venice.
Visit at 10.30 am: Cà Rezzonico Museum of 18th century culture This fine Baroque palazzo was built in the middle of the 17th century by Baldassarre Longhena, the leading architect in Venice of the period. The construction of the building continued by Giorgio Massari from 1750 onwards. Today the building host the Museo of the “Settecento Veneziano” and it gives to the visitors the opportunity to see the Rezzonico family’s extravagant interior decoration of the Palazzo. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Anrea Brustolon and other artists worked on it. The interior decor offers a unique and authentic backdrop to the 18th century Venetian art displayed here. In addition to works of art there is also a collection of porcelain, furniture, and others useful items.
TOUR 2: Andrea Palladio in Venice : The Redentore and S. Giorgio Maggiore Churches 10 Euro (include guide and admission to museum), MAX 25 person.
Andrea Palladio created in Venice three churches that are seen as the pinnacles of Renaissance architecture and the models for religious building up to the 19th century in the city. These are distinguished by a felicitous relationship with classical architectural language, which Palladio accommodated with the artistic style of his own time, Mannerism.
3 pm: Chiesa del Redentore, The Redeemer Church
In 1575 the Senate commissioned la chiesa del Redentore to honour the Redemeer for saving from a terrible plague struck in the city. The chosen site was the Giudecca in order to provide a particularly good view of the church from the main island. Palladio built the church stands out exotically from the simple low buildings of its surroundings, in brilliant white stone and with noble proportions. The clear layout of the interior is typical of Palladio’s style, as the high columns that go from small rectangular bases on the floor almost as far as the roof, and the high altar and the curves of the transept that can be interpreted as a central space before the monks’ choir.
4pm. S. Giorgio Maggiore Church An other important Palladian Church in Venice is situated in the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, along with the Giudecca. Andrea Palladio was commissioned in 1565 to build a new church for the Benedectines. The architect designed a building to be seen from a distance, from Piazza S. Marco on the other side of the Basin: a splendid façade in white Istrian marble with columns on high pedestals and a complete triangular pediment. The interior also has a very clear layout. Palladio chose the basic form of a latin cross, that is, a basilica with transept and side aisles. The high columns support the ceiling and the harmonic proportions of the building give it great serenity. The choir of the church is decorated by two imposing canvases, painted by J. Tintoretto towards the end of his life around 1594, the luminous contrasts between brilliantly-lit areas and the dark shadows are stressed.
TOUR 3: Travelling From Venice to Croatia There are quite a number of cheap flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Croatia, operated by various airlines, the most convenient being to travel with Croazia Airlines.
The schedule for catamarans between Venice and Croatia now includes the entire offering of Venezia Lines. Venezia Lines operate routes from Venice to various Istrian ports (Porec, Umag, Rovinj, Pula) as well as services to Rabac, Opatija and Mali Losinj. Most services operate between June and September; more popular ones operate from May to October (e.g. Venice - Porec).
TOUR 4: San Servolo Island and S. Lazzaro degli Armeni: Mechitarista Monastery (foreign community in Venice) 25 Euro (include guide, admission to museum and Boat ticket), MAX 35 person.
Sailing by private boat for a route through the little islands around Bacino of St. Marco (S. Servolo, S. Clemente, Lazzaretto Vecchio), we will transport into an idyll of nature, art, and spirituality. A vast building complex that brings the spectators attention is the island of San Servolo, which was home to a monastery for a thousand years and later provided a venue for the hospital until 1978, when the reform of the psychiatry system led to the closure of hospital. The island covers an area of 4.82 hectares, almost ten times that of the original sandy dune formed by the natural geological evolution of the lagoon area. The visit to the island including the delicious park, the old church and museum.
Thirty thousand square meters where, in 1715, Sebaste Mechitar, an Armenian exile from Greek, took refuge and founded a Benedictine monastery. Here he began the work, of spreading the wisdom of the Orient, instructing young Armenians who had fled their country in art, literature, and science. Visitors are received by Father Armenians who show the picture gallery, the refectory, the cloister, the famous library with about one hundred thousand books, frescos by Tiepolo and canvas painting by Ricci, Strozzi and so on. Also George Byron came here in 1816 to get over the grief of his separation from Isabella Mi
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