Location: San Marco
Top Things to do in San Marco
What to do and see in San Marco, Veneto: The Best Historic Sites
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 Marin
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
Palace Marin, overlooking the Rio La Fenice, with its frescoed rooms and with its perfect acoustics, has witnessed one of the most important eras of Venetian and European history, the end of '700, tied to the Enlightenment and its main exponents, among which Rousseau, Voltaire, Foscolo, Chateaubriand and Denon and cradle of the great modern changes, in particular thanks to the great figure of the intellectual and artistic literate Isabella Theotokos. The family Serafini, owner of Palazzo Marin, has always cherish the heritage represented by its past, its history and memory, and feels the need to understand and study these aspects, protecting and caring for them to be transmitted to the appropriate audience.The love of culture is the philosophy that the family Serafini want to follow and maintain.We can therefore say that, Palazzo Marin wants to be the symbol of a constant search for quality.On this basis, the Palace seeks to provide a high-level artistic proposal, as required by its culture,
2. Scala Contarini del Bovolo
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4.5 based on 1,510 reviews
The tallest spiral staircase of Venice is a perfect synthesis of different architecture styles (Renaissance, Gothic and Venetian-Byzantine). It was commissioned by Pietro Contarini in late 1400 as a decorative element of the adjacent family's Palazzo. Even today there are several hypotheses about the authorship of the manufacturer. The monument can be considered a unique architectural jewel in the lagoon, the new Renaissance expression that was establishing in the city. The Scala is connected to the palace by three floors lodges. At the top there is the Belvedere with a wonderful view of Venice, from here you can see the domes and the Campanile di San Marco, the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, and even the Teatro la Fenice.
Reviewed By JuneJaundoo - Brighton, United Kingdom
Well, this is a little bit off the beaten track, and well worth going to see. Once a private residence many years ago, it's now been restored and is open to the public. Its €7pp to climb the stairs and admire the view. This will become a main tourist stop in a few years. Its amazing to think it was once a private house, and that it's there tucked away down tiny streets, hidden from view, it makes you wonder just what lies behind some of the dull doors of Venice!
3. Ponte dei Sospiri
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4.5 based on 7,050 reviews
This historic bridge connects the Doge's Palace with its prisons and was named for the condemned prisoners who crossed it to meet their executioners.
Reviewed By Erfurt - Jupiter, United States
The Bridge of Sighs is world renown, it is packed with tourists coming and going, there is a lot of pushing and chaffing going on, everyone wants to take a photo of this scene, and the once who take " selfies " really jam up this beautiful sight best seen from the bridge where this photo was taken..The Bridge of Sighs is made from white limestone passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. A MUST see...
4. Doge's Palace
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4.5 based on 26,297 reviews
A masterpiece of Gothic architecture, the building and its sculptural decoration date from various periods. The interior, with works by artists such as Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, A.Vittoria and Tiepolo, includes vast council chambers, superbly decorated residential apartments, and austere prison cells. Along the facades of the Palace run loggias that overlook St. Mark’s Square and the lagoon. The combined entrance ticket to the St. Mark’s Square Museums grants access to the Doge’s Palace, Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and Monumental Rooms of Biblioteca Marciana.
Reviewed By I5778HMtrevors - Kidderminster, United Kingdom
As part of a tour through viator including Basillica. Doges Palace is superb with beautiful Paintings everywhere Did tour including dungeons so walked over Bridge of Sighs All amazing Suggest earliest Guided tour available to beat the crowds
5. Campanile di San Marco
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4.5 based on 9,064 reviews
Originally built as a lighthouse to assist navigation in the lagoon, visitors can be whisked by elevator to the top of St. Mark's Campanile or bell tower to savor incredible views of Venice, the lagoon and the Alps in the distance.
Reviewed By chicago90Phoenix
If you love priceless views including the multiple domed roof of St. Marks Church, this is the place to be. You will appreciate the beauty and how special and unique Venice is when you have this birds eye view perspective of this empire.
6. Palazzo Contarini Fasan - Casa di Desdemona
7. Procuratie Vecchie
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4.5 based on 45 reviews
Reviewed By asiyahnoemik - Pula, Croatia
Coming to St. Mark's Square is a unique experience. Magnificent. In addition to the beautiful St. Mark's Basilica and the magnificent Doge's Palace, we immediately notice the beautiful buildings. The Procuratie are three connected buildings (Procuratie Vecchie, Procuratie Nuove and Procuratie ala Napoleonica) in the shape of a horseshoe, in St. Mark's Square. These are historic buildings with offices where the Procurators of St. Mark, esteemed officials of the city and the Venetian Republic worked. The history of the origin of these buildings is extremely interesting. Doge Sebastiano Ziani (1172 to 1178), after buying land from the nuns of Sr. Zaccaria, had a building erected in the square with loggias like galleries, which later served as the apartments of the procurator of San Marco. Later in the 16th century when the old buildings burned down in a fire the Procuratie Vecchie was built. The Procuratie Vecchie, is a Renaissance building, 152 m long on the north side of the square, which continues to the Torre dell'Orologio. Were designed by the architects Bartolomeo Bon and Guglielmo dei Grigi, and later by Jacopo Sansovino in the first half of the sixteenth century completed it, in 1538. The old procurators have two floors, on the ground floor there is a loggia with arcades (50 arches that are harmoniously connected with 100 windows in the upper two floors). They were completed in 1640 by Longena. During the Kingdom of Italy the building was adapted for the royal residence (Palazzo Reale). Today, the upper floors of the New Procuratorate are the Museo Correr, the Museo del Risorgimento, the Archaeological Museum, the Venice Public Administration and part of the Marciana Library. In the arcades of the Procuratie Vecchie and the Procuratie Nuove are the most famous, oldest and most expensive Venetian cafes: Gran Caffè Quadri, Caffè Florian (Casanova, Ghoete ... favorite place) which opened its doors on December 29, 1720, and Caffe Lavena (Richard Wagner favorite place). The procuratios took the form of a horseshoe (or inverted U) after Napoleon Bonaparte decided to demolish the Church of San Geminiano, thus gaining space for new procuratorates, called the Ala Napoleonica, the Napoleonic Wing. What to say, there is always a wonderful atmosphere here. People like to visit shops, coffee bars, museums ... in this area because there is a rich history here.
8. Palazzo Bembo
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
The Palazzo, as is often the case in Venice, has a discrete entrance off the street - its larger more impressive entrance is off the Grand Canal. While there is a hotel in the top part of the building, during the Biennale the European Cultural Centre takes over the first floor for a free and fascinating exhibition of contemporary international design, covering many aspects invluding fashion, textiles, furniture, lighting, furniture and architecture with the design of an e-sports stadium in China. Perhaps most spooky of all is a chamber for euthanasia. An excellent exhibition and it is free to visit.
9. Palazzo Malipiero
10. Palazzo Ferro Fini
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