One of the 5 naval museums in Italy, for lovers of ships and more. The last captain of the Venetian Navy was Angelo Emo, to whom a funeral monument was dedicated - sculpted by Giovanni Ferrari, known as il Torretto - for having freed the seas from…
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Equipped, like most Venetian palaces, with two superimposed floors, it has the particularity of having an independent entrance for each of them, through its own staircase or a water door. The main door leads to the large seventeenth-century atrium,…
A pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums – a break in the spending and work frenzy so familiar to us all. The reality of lockdown is making ghost towns of the…