Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Palazzo Grassi
Gae Aulenti and Tadao Ando peeled back rococo flourishes to re-
veal Giorgio Massari's neoclassical lines. (
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Palazzo Querini Stampalia
Baroque beauty with high-modernist updates: Carlo
Scarpa-designed gardens and gates, Mario Botta library and cafe. (
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Grand Hotel Excelsior
Giovanni Sardi's decadent Byzantine-Moorish beach re-
sort, built 1898-1908 with Fortuny
stile liberty
(art-nouveau) interiors. (
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Divine Architecture
Basilica di San Marco
Byzantine domes glimmer with golden mosaics. (
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Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute
Longhena's bubble-domed marvel, believed
to have mystical curative powers. (
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Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore
Palladio's expansive, effortlessly uplifting
church and cloisters. (
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Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli
The Lombardos' little Renaissance miracle in
polychrome marble. (
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Schola Spagnola
The theatrical, elliptical women's gallery attributed to
Longhena. (
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Modern Marvels
Biennale pavilions
High-modernist pavilion architecture, which often steals the
show at Art Biennales. (
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Punta della Dogana
Customs warehouses creatively repurposed into cutting-
edge installation-art galleries by Tadao Ando. (
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Negozio Olivetti
Forward-thinking Carlo Scarpa transformed a dusty souvenir
shop into a high-tech showcase c 1958. (
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Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Former naval academy rocks the boat as an avant-
garde art gallery. (
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