Location: Castello
Top Things to do in Castello
Things to do in Venice, Veneto: The Best Architectural Buildings
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
Restaurants in Venice
1. Palazzo Vitturi
2. Arsenale di Venezia
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 967 reviews
In 1473, the Senate in Venice ordered the building of the Arsenale Nuovissino, in order to have a safe shed to store weapons and boats that would always be available in case of war.
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
One of the two main venues for the Biennale the Arsenale comes alive with a huge variety of international contemporary art. In many ways the immense volumes of the former industrial buildings provide more flexible spaces for showing innovative art installations than the static pavilions in the Giardini. There are also external installations on the dockside and a free shuttle water bus taking visitors across to the other part of the Arsenale which has exhibitions related to the Biennale and Lorenzo Quinn's amazing sculptural installation 'Building Bridges'. All this of course will disappear when the Biennale closes at the end of November.
3. Scuola Grande di San Marco
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4.5 based on 196 reviews
Reviewed By asiyahnoemik - Pula, Croatia
Already from Calle Larga Giacinto Gallina we saw the outlines of the beautiful Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo. From the last bridge leading to Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo overlooking the facade of Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the facade of the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo we were left breathless, in wonder. Standing in this place and enjoying the beautiful architectural masterpieces is a real privilege. Of course, the rich history of buildings in us evokes admiration and awe. Scuola Grande di San Marco is a Renaissance palace and the former seat of the Venetian confraternities in Sestiere Castello. The Great Brotherhood of San Marco was founded in 1260 and had its headquarters near the now demolished church of Santa Croce (next to Piazzale Roma in Papadopoulos Park). The Dominicans of the church of San Giovanni e Paolo near Castello ceded their land to the fraternity in 1437 to build their new headquarters. Construction work was led by Pietro Lombardo and Giovanni Buora, but the palace burned down in a fire in 1485. Work on the erection of the new and larger palace was entrusted to Mauro Codussi, who built it in 1505, and after that the palace was extended in 1523 towards the Rio dei Mendicanti canal, thanks to the occupation of the architect Jacopo Sansovino. The rich polychrome marble facade of the palace, with numerous reliefs, has an asymmetrical structure that reflects the internal division of space, with a saloon on the left and the so-called hotel lounge (sala dell’albergo) on the right. From the very beginning, the brothers of the School decided to limit the reconstitution of the cycles of paintings, leaving out the vast spaces of the Chapter Room, to dedicate every resource to the smallest walls of the Sala dell'Albergo with a cycle of six canvases dedicated to episodes of life of San Marco. The Hall became one of the most spectacular complexes of the Venetian Renaissance, an attraction for European scholars and experts, thanks to the works of Gentile Bellini ("Sermon of San Marco"), Giovanni Bellini ("The martyrdom of San Marco"), Giovanni Mansueti (" Healing of Aniano "and" Baptism of Aniano "), Paris Bordon (" The fisherman gives the ring to the Doge "), Jacopo Palma il Vecchio (" Saints Mark, George and Nicholas save Venice from the storm "). From 1807 Scuola was turned into a military hospital and it has remained for the entire time of the Austrian administration until today, when it operates as the city hospital Ospedale Civile SS. Giovanni e Paolo.
4. Palazzo Dandolo
5. Palazzo delle Prigioni
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4.5 based on 34 reviews
Reviewed By planetogra - Tewantin, Australia
After your traipsing around the Doge's Palace & its gilt & plush furnishings, a trip across the Bridge Of Sighs ( Ponte dei Sospiri ) to Palazzo delle Prigioni ( The new prisons ) is an absolute must. The atmosphere is heavy with judgement & the cells are cold & damp you would expect. Ventilation would be the thing I would miss most & of course a view of the sky or really anywhere outside ... doesn't bare considering for long. The significance of the Bridge of Sighs is about the last chance prisoners would get of the world which could be taken away from them. For all the glamour & opulence of the Doges Palace, The Prigioni left a much more embedded impression on us.
6. Via Garibaldi
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4.0 based on 173 reviews
Area of interest in Venice for shopping and restaurants in the Castello district
Reviewed By NickofSurrey - Surrey, United Kingdom
Apparently one of only three streets in Venice - as we would normally apply the term, with no canal. Has a large number of reasonably price restaurants with main meals from about 8 euros. Also tv has a supermarket. Very much a place for Venetians. Continue up and the street and worm your way towards St Peters Basillicia for lovely little canals and tourist free pavements (though tourists aren't here in huge numbers at present and 29 degrees and sunshine adds to it
