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Piri Re'is "View of Venice" 1525 and Maps of Modern Venice

History of Venice - the 1,000 year Serenissima (in preparation)

 Travel Guides and Books about Venice

Restaurants

Piazza San Marco

Paintings of Last Suppers in Venice

Grand Canal  One  Two

Santa Maria della Salute and Dorsoduro

I Frari

San Polo

Santo Stefano

San Zaccaria

Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni

Castello on Pentecoste Sunday

Madonna dell'Orto

Cannaregio

San Giacomo dall'Orio

Santa Maria  del Giglio

Masks and Chocolate

L'Anzolo Rafael - Miss Garnet's Angel

Piazza San Marco

I Frari (San Polo) - Franciscan masterpiece including Titians, a Bellini Madonna, Venice's only Donatello etc, in an awe-inspiring space - if you've time for only one church, this is it!

Giovanni Bellini and the church of San Zaccaria in Castello

Verrocchio's Equestrian statue of Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni outside the Dominican Church of Zanipolo

(boxed up for restoration in 2004)

The "Horses of St Marks"

Looted from Constantinople by the 4th Crusade (1202 - 1205), the horses date from Roman days and are the only members of their genre to survive.  In order to fit them onto the Venetian boats it was necessary to cut off their heads - the collars were a Venetian addition to hide the marks that were left when the heads were stuck on again.      BOOK

The Doge's Palace (in preparation)

Bookings for "Itinerari Segreti" tours of the chancellery, questioning rooms, torture chambers, Casanova's cell etc, 041 522 4951

Grand Canalscapes

Santo Stefano (San Marco) - Early Gothic gem

Santa Maria della Salute and Dorsoduro

Pentecoste Sunday (May 2004) - San Giorgio del Greci, San Lorenzo and Castello

Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni (Castello)

Paradox's favourite of the Scuoli

San Polo - One of the oldest Venetian churches backing on to one of the city's biggest campos

Paintings of Last Suppers in Venice

San Giacomo dall'Orio (Santa Croce)

Santa Maria dei Miracoli - exquisite little marble clad church in Cannaregio

Cannaregio

Madonna dell'Orto and Gesuiti Churches (Cannaregio)

Santa Maria del Giglio (San Marco)

Masks and Chocolate

Campo L'Anzolo Rafael (and Miss Garnet's Angel)

The Sestieri of Venice (above) and detail of the San Marco area (below)

The Hotel Do Pozzi (***) proved an excellent and friendly base for a thorough exploration of Venice, starting each day with an early breakfast in their private courtyard.  The hotel is a five minute walk from the S Maria del Giglio Vaporetto Linea 1 stop.

The hotel also operates, and gives a resident discount at, the excellent next door canalside restaurant Da Raffaele (but make sure to book if you want to sit canalside)

If you have a car to park, the hotel will give you a 10% discount voucher for the main city car park in the corner of Piazzale Roma.

Incidentally, the detailed map also shows (top left) the Campo S Toma, home of the Trattoria San Toma, the best of our lunchtime restaurant discoveries, and close by the Franciscan  church of I Frari (visit obligatory!).

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