Encyclopedia • Monuments

The bastion, located at the junction of Via Spalti and Santa Maria dei Battuti, is one of the few Mestre archaeological monuments represented in ancient cartography and visible today.

Of the ancient baptistery, its ruins remain today, located in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. It was once one of the early Christian architectural elements, circular in shape.

A bell tower guards the oldest bell in Venice, and one of the oldest in Europe.

For the Venetians it is simply The Monument. In front of it people meet, around it children play, around it are the various water vehicles.It is like a great compass, a point of reference: "before the Monument...", "after the Monument...".

A fourteenth-century witness, lonely and surrounded by greenery next to the island's vines.

An unusual 19th century fortification whose architecture is anomalous compared to other military forts erected by the French and Austro-Hungarian administrations. On the south-western tip of the island of S. Erasmo, opposite the Lido harbour, is the…

The island of Torcello was one of the first lands - together with Chioggia, Cavarzere, Malamocco, Rialto and Grado - to welcome the huge influx of Venetians from the mainland in 568 AD, when the Lombards invaded their territories.

El parón de casa, the master of the house, as he is friendly called by the Venetians. It is one of the symbols of the spirit of the Serenissima: after collapsing in the early 20th century, it was rebuilt exactly as it was originally. Its height is…

High soaring into the sky, these two slender, sinuous columns: they represent the Winged Lion symbolising the Serenissima and St. Todaro protecting the city. For those arriving from the sea, they acted as a gateway to the Marciana area, like two…

The ashes of Daniele Manin arrived in Venice in 1868, greeted by a stream of mournful people. His memory still lives on in various parts of the city, including his funeral monument a few steps from the entrance of St Mark's Basilica. .

The column once stood slightly further away from the present site and was used as an experiment by Galileo Galilei to demonstrate the effectiveness of his recent creation: the telescope. It is said to have supported the statue of Doge Domenico…