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The Tintoretto house is a tall and narrow building dating back to the fifteenth century in Gothic style with a splendid three-light window on the first floor. On its facade there is a small marble statue representing Hercules with a club and a…

He owes his love for music to his violinist father Giovanni Battista who played for some years in the chapel of San Marco; he seems to have been a pupil of the musician Giovanni Legrenzi. Due to his poor health, he approached the church and was…

Separated from a main canal - the Canale maggiore of Mazzorbo - the island still today shows on its banks buildings in the Gothic-Venetian style, experiencing the same fate as the entire Torcelliano territory. It is connected to the most famous…

Grandson of the doge murdered in St. Zaccaria (864). Battle-hardened and energetic, he is remembered for organising the defence of the territory against the danger posed by the Hungarians and acclaimed as a liberator: in the year 900, in order to…

The field was dedicated to San Paolo or Polo according to the Venetian wording. In this place the market was held, which used to last more than a week, only to be reduced to Wednesday only and after the fall of the Republic it was moved to Saturday…

Not a carnival costume but rather a symbol of death, used to remember how much pain and suffering the disease brought to Venice. The shape of the curved beak on the white mask quickly brings to mind the beak of a vulture, a bird notoriously…

The Palazzo del Consiglio is a building of very ancient origins which has undergone numerous alterations over the centuries, all of which came to light during the restoration of the site in the 1870s. Not far from the building is the Palazzo dell'…

In the Dorsoduro district, as early as 1224, there was a hospital dedicated to the treatment of lepers named after San Lazzaro and, almost forty years later, to avoid the risk of epidemics, it was moved to an island in the lagoon, changing its name…

Currently, the entrance for visitors is the ‘Porta del Frumento’, on the side of the San Marco Lagoon. You can visit the palace by beginning on the ground floor with the Museo dell 'Opera, to then pass through the courtyard and go up to the first…