Slow walks through picturesque streets, romantic tours by gondola along the canals of Venice offer to sight artistic and architectural treasures and shops full of historical atmosphere; tourists may enjoy panoramic views from famous bridges, such as the Rialto Bridge, which dominates the area traditionally more active in Venice, with markets of fruit and vegetables, flower and fish and the Ponte dei Sospiri, through which you had access to the old prisons.

Art exhibitions of international standing (sculpture, paintings, ancient furnishing and more) never fail to take place in Venice. Ancient palaces, with their century-old charm, are now museums, destination for countless visitors: Ca 'Rezzonico, Museum of the '700 in Venice, Ca' Pesaro, The International Gallery of Modern Art and The Museum of Eastern Art, Palazzo Ducale, a masterpiece of Gothic art, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni where you may admire the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. The Venice Biennale stands as unique: it is a prestigious cultural institution, known worldwide, a place of avanguardistic promotion of new artistic tendencies.

The majesty of churches built in the most diverse architectural styles is admirable: Santa Maria della Salute, a monumental Baroque church dedicated to the Virgin, built as a sign of thanksgiving for the end of the plague in 1630; Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, a gothic house founded by Franciscan friars - hence "Frari"- between 1250 and 1338 and then rebuilt around the middle of the xiv century; Santa Maria dei Miracoli, an exquisite masterpiece of Renaissance art, with the rich façade decorated with minutely carved marble panels.

The islands in the lagoon offer an atmosphere full of ancient reminiscences: Murano is known for the masterpieces in blown glass, an ancient tradition handed down from father to son and still alive; on the island lovers of artistic glass creations may visit The Museum of Glass; Burano is characteristized by small and multicoloured houses and is known for the art of needle made lace, whose testimonies are collected in the Museum of Lace; Torcello is an island of great charm, once a bishop's seat with its cathedral, the oldest building in the lagoon, dating back to 639


"La Palazzina Veneziana" " is not only an exclusive bed and breakfast; it is also the perfect starting point to plunge into the evocative atmosphere of Venice, in its art and history, which are reflected in its walls, streets, canals: a never ending pleasure fills our soul while contemplating so many beautiful places, created both by nature and man.