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TIPS FOR AUGUST…
Within a scenario featuring increasingly captivating proposals, Venice remains confirmed
as one of the most beloved and sought-after destinations by tourism. Its artistic
and monumental assets are known throughout the world, as are its museums (and
its churches), preserving treasures representing a millennial history.
Its cultural values are accompanied by environmental ones.
The lagoon, in fact, offers unexpected opportunities for discovering a unique ecosystem
in certain respects, where land and water merge in a fragile balance ruled by
tidal flows. Ancient relics - the ones at Torcello being a splendid example - are preserved
on its small, characteristic, together with the last surviving crafts, involving
ancient gestures and artisan know-how, like the glass masters’ on Murano, or the lace
makers’ and “impiraresse” or bead-threaders’ on Burano and Pellestrina.
In consideration of the breadth of such offerings, it is difficult to give advice, however,
here are a few tips, beginning from the museum scenario.
Anyone who wishes to learn or even to enter the history of the city, should not miss
a visit at the Ducal Palace or at the Correr Museum.
One may be captured here by the allure of objects, documents and great paintings,
or even by locations embodying the Serene Republic, among these, the Doge’s apartment,
which has reopened to the public just recently.
Prestigious artworks may also be discovered in the splendid collections at the Galleries
of the Accademia, featuring works from the Byzantine Fourteenth century, to the
Renaissance, up to the Eighteenth century, the latter represented in particular by the
lovely Venetian Eighteenth-century Museum at Ca’ Rezzonico, recently opened anew.
Further fine art collections are on display at the International Museum of Modern
Art at Ca’ Pesaro, dedicated to the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries; at the Querini
Stampalia Picture Gallery, and at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, an absolute
temple for Modern art.
Relevant collections are also those within the State Museums at the Archaeological
Museum, the Oriental Museum, and the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery. These are furthermore
flanked by Palazzo Cini, with collections of paintings and furnishings which
belonged to Vittorio Cini.
For enthusiasts, there is also the Giancarlo Ligabue Museum of Natural History, now
celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his birth; the Navy’s Historical Naval Museum,
and the Murano Museum of Glass, dedicated to the manufacturing production
that made Venice famous worldwide.
Finally, we may point visitors towards appealing summertime late evening openings
promoted by the City Museums, which we are listing with every detail in the dedicated
section on Museums.
Then, there are the Art exhibitions.
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
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