Insight Guides - Insight Guides City Guide Venice (Travel Guide eBook)

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Getting around the e-book

This Insight CityGuide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Venice, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Venice. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Venice are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Venice. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

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Venices Top 10 Attractions

Here, at a glance, are the sights you really must not miss, from the Palazzo Ducale and 18th-century palaces to some of the finest art galleries in the world.

Top Attraction 1

Basilica di San Marco . With its five domes, glittering mosaics and treasures of inestimable value, Venices grand basilica is a mix of styles from Romanesque and Byzantine through to Gothic and Renaissance..

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Top Attraction 2

I Frari . This soaring brick Gothic church, beautiful in its graceful simplicity, is the setting for a couple of masterpieces by Titian. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Punta della Dogana . Once the customs house of the Venetian republic, the low-slung buildings on the Punta della Dogana have been transformed into Venices leading contemporary art showcase. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

La Fenice . The world-famous opera house has been restored to its former glory. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Ca Rezzonico . This magnificent 18th-century palace affords a glimpse into noble lifestyles and has some fine frescoes by the Tiepolos. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Accademia . For a crash course in the Venetian Old Masters, with works by the Bellinis, Tintoretto, Titian, the Tiepolos, Veronese, Canaletto and more, the Accademia is second to none. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Guggenheim collection . Peggy Guggenheim amassed a remarkable eclectic private collection of modern art, ranging from Picasso to Max Ernst, in what was long her home on the Grand Canal. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

Palazzo Ducale (Doges Palace) . In white stone and pink marble, this masterpiece of High Gothic style was the command centre of empire and remains the home of paintings by Titian and Veronese. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Carnival . The best-known event in Venice is the carnival, an extravaganza of colourful masks, costumes and music held in the 10 days before Shrove Tuesday. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 10

Ca Pesaro . This baroque Grand Canal mansion, formerly home to one of Venices grand families, today houses an extensive modern art collection and, upstairs, one of Europes museums of Japanese Edo-period art and objects. For more information, .

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Editors Choice

Unique attractions, festivals and events, top palaces and islands, best bars and boat trips, family outings here are our recommendations.