An Artsy Itinerary Or Then Campo Santo Stefano Inward Venice

Walking to a greater extent than or less Campo Santo Stefano is for certain relaxing. In this expanse of Venice at that spot are interesting exhibitions too fine art galleries, equally good equally beautiful palazzi, too many curious things to discover. Many occasional tourists overstep hither on their way to St. Mark's Square, but they seem absent-minded, thence focused on checking out Rialto Bridge too the Palazzo Ducale that they forget to ask hold their noses out of their maps too guidebooks to admire the ease the metropolis has to offer.

View from the Accademia Bridge (picture yesteryear Koalie on flickr)

The itinerary starts inwards Ponte dell'Accademia, which is one of the 4 bridges on the Grand Canal. It is amount of locks because inwards the final few years lovers ask hold flora it a romantic house to demonstrate their love. The persuasion is actually a classic of Venetian sightseeing. The church building of Santa Maria della Salute that you lot run across from hither was built inwards the 17the century to enquire the virgin Mary to set an goal to the plague that had spread inwards the city.



At the moment, if it's eve too the Sun has already set, you lot tin forcefulness out admire this fine art installation, purpose of the 2013 Art Biennale. It is an Fe statue yesteryear creative individual Jaume Plensa that casts a fascinating shadow on the gothic Palazzo Franchetti. This charming palace now houses the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.



The statue inwards the garden of Palazzo Franchetti

If it's non dark, you lot tin forcefulness out motion into to run across the good too the modest garden, or watch 1 of the temporary fine art exhibitions. The gate is actually beautiful at night. For a moment, you'll remember you lot are inwards Istanbul. As a affair of fact, inwards the yesteryear the 2 cities were connected through merchandise routes,  too Venice is built on the myth of Istanbul. You'll run across many architectonic details that volition remind you lot of Istanbul if you lot know where to look.




The gate at Palazzo Franchetti amongst an fine art installation concerning glass

You are at in 1 lawsuit inwards the Sestiere of San Marco, the most expensive too prestigious of the neighbourhoods of Venice. If you lot plow left precisely afterwards the Accademia Bridge, at that spot is a maze of streets that leads to Palazzo Grassi, some other palace where major fine art exhibitions are held. It's ever worth to expect what's on inwards this venue. Sometimes Venetian houses shelter undercover gardens, undetectable from the outside. The pic that follows was taken within Palazzo Malipiero during an exhibition of the Biennale a twosome of years ago. Giacomo Casanova, the famous 18th-century seducer who incidentally also escaped from the prison theatre within Palazzo Ducale, used to alive inwards this solid equally a boy, inwards what was at the fourth dimension the most libertine metropolis inwards Europe, amount of casinos too bordellos.  



Garden of Palazzo Malipiero

Once you lot have made your way back to the primary street, walk through Campo Santo Stefano, which is 1 of the biggest squares inwards Venice. The statue inwards the middle is that of Niccolò Tommaseo, affectionately called "Il Cagalibri" (the "book-shitter") by Venetian people. The statue gets its cite from the pile of books that helps the statue gets its balance. If you lot have a sweetness molar or, if you're precisely hungry, you lot could halt at the panificio (bakery) inwards Calle dello Spezier, the modest street leading to Campo San Maurizio on your right. It's inwards forepart of an fine art gallery, thence you lot can't immature lady it, too if offers delicious quiches, equally good equally macarons, wraps, sandwiches, focacce too much more.


Campo Santo Stefano too "il cagalibri" statue

At the other goal of Campo Santo Stefano, you lot tin forcefulness out run across Chiesa di Santo Stefano. I specially similar the portal on the side of this church. 



The portal of Chiesa di Santo Stefano



If you lot maintain along Calle della Mandola, next you lot ask hold Campo Sant'Angelo, amongst its crooked bell  tower, too thence Campo Manin, amongst some other large statue inwards the middle. The human being celebrated hither is Daniele Manin, a patriot that helped Venice gets its independence from the Austrian domination inwards the 19th century.

If you lot ask hold a modest calle called Calle de la Vida o de Le Locande, to your correct from Campo Manin, you'll uncovering a lilliputian treasure: Scala Contarini del Bovolo, built at the goal of the 15th century inwards an inner courtyard of this palace. "Bovolo" inwards Venetian dialect agency "snail" or "curl". Unfortunately, at the instant it is non possible to watch the palace too the staircase, but you lot tin forcefulness out admire it from behind a gate.
 

Scala Contarini del Bovolo

Another jewel of this expanse is Palazzo Fortuny, a magnificent if lesser visited gothic palace tucked inwards a backstreet. Catalan eclectic creative individual Mariano Fortuny used this palace equally his atelier. It is at in 1 lawsuit used equally a museum amongst astonishing tapestries too fascinating displays from his works. The atmosphere within Palazzo Fortuny is magic, close resembling that of an enchanted castle. There are ofttimes contemporary exhibitions, so take a expect at the official website. You tin forcefulness out scope it from Calle della Mandola, turning correct into a modest street (Salizada del Teatro) that finishes inwards Campo San Beneto, but showtime halt too ask hold a expect at the canals on the Ponte della Cortesia.



The courtyard of Palazzo Fortuny (from Wikipedia)

View from Ponte della Cortesia


 

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