Tourism

Dear Venice visitors,

Our city extends a friendly welcome to you, and is glad to let you see its numerous artistic, architectural and historical treasures and the beauty of its environment. Venice is a city with a high degree of culture and business activity, but on the other hand, it is also a physically frail city, which needs respect and constant care to maintain its splendour in all its integrity.
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The Vogalonga embraces local history and traditions, but also features an international dimension, bringing amateurs from all over the world together with the locals who spend their time in the lagoon, as well as belong to the lagoon. 
The Vogalonga starts from St Mark's Basin. After going round St. Helen Island, it coasts the Island of Vignole, Sant'Erasmo and San Francesco del Deserto. Burano is reached halfway through the route; then, passing the Islands of Mazzorbo, Madonna del Monte and San Giacomo in Paludo, the line of boats enters Murano and crosses its Grand Canal. After reaching Venice, the boats go through the Cannaregio Canal, reach the Grand Canal and, finally, they pass the finish line located at the Punta della Dogana, opposite St. Mark's Square. ....
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The exhibition is not simply meant to be a one-man show but a chance to extensively revisit Italian abstract art in the second half of the 20th century. There are thus also works by Afro, Renato Birolli, Mario De Luigi, Leone Minassian, Zoran Music, Armando Pizzinato, Emilio Vedova, Bice Lazzari, Tancredi, Antonio Corpora, Virgilio Guidi and Toti Scialoja, testifying to the more or less remote or close dialogue between Santomaso and the leading players in the Italian movement known as Arte informale, and works by Braque, Poliakoff, Winter.
Fondazione Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Open: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 - 18.30 (Closed on Monday)


 

The exhibition will witness and emphasize the artistic richness of the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age in the West facing the classical Roman Art.
 
Opening hours: Every day from 9 am to 7 pm

The exhibition is dedicated to the prestigious collection of 19th-Century Tuscan paintings belonging to Mario Taragoni a unique chance to view, gathered in one place, such an important collection, as well as to experience, along with the high pictorial quality of the exhibited works, the intellectual fervour which animated Mario Taragoni, a sensitive and refined collector who was among the first to realize the modernity of these painters.
 
Opening hours: Every day from 10 am to 7 pm

The Lace Museum is closed from the 6th of February to the 1st of November 2008 for restoration works.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

In view of the opening of the new Center of Contemporary Art at Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi, in cooperation with the Ca' Foscari University, the IUAV University and IUAV Foundation, will host a series art conversations featuring the most important artists in the Pinault Collection.