VENICE: THE CITY OF ART VENICE: THE CITY OF ART Venice is an art city rich of history. We want to propose an “off the beaten path” itinerary through the beauty and the history of Venice. 1st day: the New Ghetto The Venetian palace, church and monument remember clearly all the intense traffic and Orient cultural link of the Serenissima. Walking these streets you can recover the past history and events of different communities living here. Interesting Hebrew Ghetto, founded in Cannaregio... where you can see Hebrew and Italian languages signs... It is typical in Venice from initial times, when for three centuries the zone was closed to the remainder of the town. Today instead it is part integrating of the city. Going to the Ghetto Nuovo field you can visit the Hebrew Art Museum and the Synagogue. Going to the Castello, Greek Balkan founding, you find Greek Albanian, Dalmatian and Serbia communities. Here, the Greek influence is very strong, mainly in language and dishes. Going to northbound, you find the Madonna dell'Orto field, where you can visit the homonymous church, with the miracle image of the Madonna col Bambino. 2nd day: the influence from Byzantine art Visit the Miracoli Church, located in a little street, with its Renaissance facade, semicircular rose front mixing the Gothic style of relevant Byzantine influence. Inside, the miracle Madonna col Bambino, and exterior gracious field. The next church to visit is the SS. Giovanni e Paolo, in Gothic Venetian style, considered the city Pantheon, due famous people sepulchered there. At its place, the Generale Colleoni statue. Go to the San Giorgio dei Greci Church, testimony of Greek community in Venice since 500 years, with Renaissance style facade and Byzantine preference, whose best example is the San Marco Basilica. Inside, a suggestive style, with low light spread from the lamps hanging and candelabra and liturgics music with Byzantine touch. In the evening you can searching an adequate location to go with literary evocation, you have to go to Harry's Bar, one of the most well known Venetian restaurants, favorite place for Hemingway, with international jet set visits today. Willing to continue the ideal itinerary tracking the Serenissima community, the right place would be the Schiavoni river, where you find the well known Sospiri Bridge, relevant commerce place for Greek and Slavic populations every year. 3rd day: Murano island Leaving Venetia island, you can enjoy the open surrounding lands. The destination, in northbound of the Serenissima, is Murano, where you arrive in streamer ship. The island that we sight immediately is San Michele, cemetery of the town, where had burial some great personalities like Stravinskij or Diaghilev, the choreography author of the ”Russian Ballet“. Between the green cypresses you can admire the white facade of the San Michele Church, whose classic shapes contrast with the curled style of its decorative shells, symbol of the sea, th Continua »