Location: Venice
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Top 10 Monuments & Statues in Venice, Veneto
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.
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1. Pietre d'Inciampo - Stolpersteine
2. Monumento ad Antonio Vivaldi
3. Punta della Dogana
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4.5 based on 845 reviews
Renovated by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana are the two museums of the Pinault Collection in Venice. Until 6th January 2020, Palazzo Grassi presents the exhibition 'La Pelle', a solo exhibition dedicated to Luc Tuymans that includes over 80 paintings by the artist from 1986 to today. Until 15th December 2019, Punta della Dogana presents 'Luogo e Segni', a group exhibition of contemporary art that brings together 36 artists whose works establish a particular relationship with their urban, social, political, historical, intellectual setting. The Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi offers a wide range of events: conferences, concerts, screenings, workshops... that underline the will to establish a dialogue with a Venetian and international public.
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
The Punta della Dogana in Venice was built in the late 17th century as a Customs House. Having been empty for years, the art collector Francois Pinault signed a lease with the city and commissioned the architect Tadao Ando to restore the exterior and boldly reschape the interiors as a gallery for a changing series of exhibitions of contemporary art. Two years ago, Damien Hirst took over the entire building. This year is an exhibition 'Luogo e Segni' linked to memory of places. Compared to the Damien Hirst exhibition, the current is a little tame, with a few fireworks including Wu Tsang up in the Belvedere and Sturtevant's light installation, while there are a few works which do make you question what some artists get away with...
4. La Stele del Pan
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
5. Scalone dei Giganti di Ca Sagredo
6. Monumento alla Partigiana Veneta
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
Reviewed By chriswood72 - Nottingham, United Kingdom
The Monumento alla Partigiana Venet (Monument to the Venetian Partisan can be found along the Viale Giardini Pubblici in the Castello Sestieri of Venice. I believe it was designed by Augusto Murer (2009) following the destruction of Leoncillo's sculpture in 1961 due to a bomb. Augusto Murer won the competition for the creation of a new statue, a bronze piece in which the artist depicts the body of a landed partisan. I came across this monument quite by accident and would have walked straight passed it if I had not seen a couple of tourists taking pictures. One of the better monuments in Venice (in my opinion).
7. L'Ultimo Treno
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4.5 based on 7 reviews
Reviewed By Mark42139 - New York City, United States
This is a very moving artistic piece in the Jewish Ghetto that serves as a reminder of those Jews who were deported to the concentration camps by the Nazi's.
8. I Leoni dell'Arsenale
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4.5 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By asiyahnoemik - Pula, Croatia
Leone del Pireo (The Piraeus Lion) is one of four lion statues on display at the Venetian Arsenal, where it was displayed as a symbol of Venice's patron saint, San Marco ( Saint Mark ). Their beauty and strength impresses at the entrance to the shipyard. It fits nicely into the ambiance, the walls, the towers, the bridges inside the shipyard and the bridge over the Rio dell Arsenale. It was originally located in Piraeus, the harbor of Athens. It was looted by Venetian naval commander Francesco Morosini in 1687 as a plunder taken in the Great Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire, during which the Venetians captured Athens and Morosini's cannons caused damage to the Parthenon that was matched only by his subsequent sack of the city. The lion was originally sculpted in about 360 BC, which is made of white marble and stands some 3 m (9 ft.) High. The lion was a well-known monument in Piraeus, where it had been from the 1st or 2nd century. Its fame was such that the Italians called the port of Porto Leone. It is especially known for the fact that some Scandinavians in the second half of the 11th century illegally desecrated a lion statue, they carved two long runic inscriptions on the shoulders and sides of the lion. But the imposing beautiful statues of lions still failed to be destroyed.
9. La Vecia del Morter
10. Colonna di San Marco e San Teodoro
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4.0 based on 217 reviews
Reviewed By alessandrofL127YD - Milan, Italy
These two wonderful columns seems to symbolize the door of majestic square of San Marco . The column of San Marco with its winged lion symbol of Serenissima and the column of San Teodoro depicted to kill a dragon . They are here since medieval period.
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