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Venice Tourist Attractions
Venice has a rich and diverse architectural style, the most famous of which is the gothic style. Venice has become a thriving sea port by the 13th century which has last just over 300 years and known as the Venetian Empire. Since the 4th century people have lived in Venice, Venice is just situated to the north right of Italy, on the cost of the Adriatic Sea. On average the city of Venice has up to 50,000 tourists a day attracted with Venice separated by canals and linked by bridges hitting the list as world heritage site with its beauty of artworks and setting of architecture. The city is often threatened by flood tides pushing in from the Adriatic between autumn and early spring this can also have an impact on tourists and accommodation effected by the tides. There are plenty of available boat transfers to people’s accommodation from Marco Polo airport. There is surprisingly one train station in Venice Venezia-Santa Lucia approx 15 minutes from St Mark’s Square and is situated on the Grand Canal. Venice is relaxed with its traffic-free streets.
You can ride the entire length of the Grand Canal on the vaporetto, Venice's floating public transport system, from San Marco to Porta Roma. Be sure to take Line 1, not the express Line 2, which moves too quickly past the palaces and skips several stops. You can also do it on a motor boat tour, with a guide who can not only point out the palaces you'll pass, but pass slowly and pull closer for better views. The longer tour includes, along with an informative tour of the Grand Canal, the charming nei***orhood of Dorsoduro and a stop to visit the sights of Venice's former Jewish Ghetto in Cannaregio.
As your vaporetto leaves the San Marco stop, it heads across the mouth of the Grand Canal, aiming almost directly at the monumental Baroque church of Santa Maria della Salute, built as thanks for the end of the plague of 1630. In order to support its immense weight, architect Baldassare Longhena had to have more than a million timbers driven into the floor of the lagoon. The church is an impressive landmark, visible across the Grand Canal from San Marco, and this grandeur continues as you step inside with your attention immediately drawn to its massive dome. Be sure to see the Sacristy, where the best paintings are, especially Tintoretto's Marriage at Cana.
Just past Santa Maria della Salute is the low white Ca' Venier dei Leoni, a contemporary building on earlier foundations. The 1749 Vernier palace was never completed, and in 1949, its single floor became the site of American art collector Peggy Guggenheim's Venice museum of cubist, abstract, and surrealist paintings and sculpture. The collection includes works by Max Ernst, to whom Peggy Guggenheim was married, as well as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Rene Magritte, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, and Jackson Pollock.
On the opposite bank, the three-storied Palazzo Grassi's facade shows both Baroque and Classical features. The last palace built on the Grand Canal before the Venetian Republic's collapse in 1797, it was constructed from plans by Giorgio Massari that used a ground plan unusual in Venice, with four wings around a rectangular courtyard. When the Fiat Motor Company acquired the palace, extensive restorations and renovations included covering the courtyard, which, along with the rest of the palace, is used for exhibitions. The building is interesting for its harmonious blend of the original Neoclassical and modern architectural styles.
