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Hotel Noemi

venezia — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:39:49 +0000

Cheap Hotel a few steps from Piazza San Marco, Venice center

Hotel Noemi is located in the heart of Venice just 50 meters from Piazza San Marco , one of the main connecting Calli Rialto and San Marco.
Characterized and appreciated for its traditional family management, was recently restored with particular flair and attention to detail.
It offers rooms decorated with sophistication in eighteenth-century Venetian style, all equipped with the most modern and advanced.

services offered by this hotel in Venice:

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Wi-Fi
Concierge service 24 hours
Reservations for guided tours and excursions
Garage

Rooms

Hotel Noemi has 16 bright and comfortable rooms furnished in Venetian style of the eighteenth century and equipped with private bathroom, safe, satellite TV, hairdryer, telephone, internet, air conditioning and mini bar. Some offer views of the main street.

Breakfast

A continental breakfast, with a small buffet is served in specially dedicated from 8.30 to 10.30.

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Canal Grande Hotel

venezia — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:03:19 +0000

Cheap hotel overlooking the Grand Canal near the train station Saint Lucia

The hotel, overlooking the Grand Canal which takes its name, is a strategic starting point for discovering the charm and magic of Venice! It ‘a great place to take a dip in the past in the Venice of the ’700 through our exclusive and refined environments that take their inspiration from the century that saw the crowning of the Queen of Venice’ Adriatic.

The services we offer

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The Grand Canal Hotel is happy to offer all the comforts and services needed to make your stay in Venice unique and relaxing:

Meeting room
Small breakfast room
Bar
Reservations for guided tours and
Ticket reservations for concerts and exhibitions
Laundry
front desk 24 hours
Luggage and baggage
Internet Point
Check in from 14.00
Check out by 12:00
Lift
WI FI
Breakfast Buffet
Photocopy Service
Fax Service
Service newspapers
Wake
Exhibitions
tickets booking
room service 24 hours
boots in case of high water
Transfer to and from the airport
Accessible to the disabled

Prestige Double Grand Canal

Refined double room overlooking the Grand Canal and / or the Campo San Simeon, furnished with wood furniture decorated with gold, and Murano glass mirrors and damask fabrics. Provides safe, retractable TV, WiFi connection, direct telephone, private bathroom with marble mosaic and air conditioning / heating available throughout the year.

Prestige Double

Cosy double room with view of a typical “street” in Venice furnished with wood furniture decorated with gold, and Murano glass mirrors and fabrics damascati.E ‘with safe, retractable TV, WiFi connection, direct telephone, bathroom private marble mosaic and air conditioning / heating available throughout the year.

Elegant Suite Canal Grande

Prestigious suites overlooking the Grand Canal, offers an elegant and spacious living room and communicating with the master bedroom is furnished with wood furniture decorated in gold, and Murano glass mirrors and damask fabrics. Provides safe, retractable TV, WiFi connection, direct telephone, private bathroom with marble mosaic and air conditioning / heating available throughout the year.

Prestige Junior Suite

Comfortable Junior Suite with view of a typical “street” in Venice, has a sitting area with sofa / bed and communicating with the master bedroom is furnished with damask, wood furniture embellished with gold decorations, mirrors and Murano glass. And ‘with safe, direct telephone, television hidden WiFi network connection, private bathroom with marble mosaic and air conditioning / heating available throughout the year.

The rooms are equipped with modern comforts:

Satellite TV
WiFi Internet
Digital safe with personal combination
satellite TV
New heating / cooling system runs 365 days a year

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B&b ca’ San Giorgio

venezia — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:17:56 +0000

Cheap Bed and breakfast with breakfast in the Campo San Polo

Cà San Giorgio, once a convent, is an elegant Gothic mansion, renovated with attention to detail and refinement of the residences of the past. Cà San Giorgio is located along the route that leads from the railway station of Saint Lucia to Piazza San Marco, passing the Rialto Bridge. Salizada Fontego of the Turks in the heart of the historic center of Venice. The hotel is located opposite the Natural History Museum, once a stock of goods of Turkish merchants.
Cà San Giorgio is a great place to dive in the one and unforgettable atmosphere of Venice.
Near the hotel, is the stop of the gondola-ferry San Marcuola that allows you to cross the Canal Grande and quickly reach the opposite bank of Cannaregio, where you can find many typical restaurants and “wine bars”, as well as the prestigious Municipal Casino of Venice . Cannaregio you can always use the opportunity to visit the famous Ca ‘d’Oro, the Venetian Gothic palace of the fifteenth century, so called because some details of its facade was decorated in gold.

Double Economy

The dual economy, smaller than the classic rooms, offers a French double bed. Characterized by exposed beams, the ground floor room is tastefully decorated and is equipped with several amenities. Perfect for short stays. For couples with children, the room is connected with a superior double.

Classic Double

Bright and comfortable rooms with queen size bed qeen.
Decorated with refinement and Bisazza mosaic bathrooms, the rooms offer many amenities.
Available rooms with balcony with partial views of the Grand Canal.

Superior Double

Our rooms are double with larger dimensions, have a small room within the room itself. They offer a king-size or twin beds.
Decorated with refinement and Bisazza mosaic bathrooms, the rooms are equipped with several amenities

Junior Suite

Very comfortable and spacious rooms decorated with sophistication and attention to detail have a king size bed or twin beds. Bisazza mosaic bathrooms are equipped with shower or bath.
Equipped with a large terrace overlooking the courtyard or balcony overlooking the Grand Canal in part.
Perfect for those seeking comfort and refinement.

Comfort rooms are available for some of this Venetian Bed Breakfast:

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Hair dryer,
Color TV (satellite TV),
Wireless Internet
Telephone,
minibar,
Air conditioning individually controlled,
Air conditioning individually controlled,
Safety Deposit Box.

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San Pietro di Castello’s church

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:12:46 +0000

Church of great historical importance for the city of Venice, San Pietro di Castello is situated on the Olivolo island, now best known as the Castello district. The church, originally founded as the seat of a bishopric (775-1451), has become over time and later in the patriarchal cathedral until 1807, when with the fall of the Republic of Venice, San Marco, not playing more of a state church, became the new seat of the Patriarch.
Victim of a fire, in 1120 the church was rebuilt on the original plan faithfully taking the most impressive size. Subjected to various alterations and renovations, St. Peter the Apostle assumed the current fees due to the work performed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The facade was originally designed by Andrea Palladio in 1556, was renewed by Francesco Smeraldi which kept its essential lines.
The plant has a Latin cross, has three naves, the central one higher order and lower order of the two sides, divided by three arches, the center of the transept, however, rises the dome, the lantern now decapitated following a bombing of the First World War.
The imposing main altar, made of marble of various colors according to a draft Longhena, holds the relics of St. Lorenzo Giustiniani, first Patriarch of Venice.
The right nave preserves the famous chair of St. Peter that tradition attributes to St. Peter at the time of his activity as bishop of Antioch, built on a Muslim funeral stele engraved with verses from the Koran in Kufic. Decorated mainly in early-seventeenth century, the church holds within it the works of great value as:

The Madonna and Child with the souls in Purgatory (1650) by Luca Giordano kept Vendramin Chapel located in the north transept;
The mosaic altarpiece of Arminio Zuccato (1570) made of Jacopo Tintoretto cardboard that stands in the chapel Lando in the left aisle of the church;
The punishment of the snakes of Pietro Liberi to the right of sanctuary;
Cross the majestic wood and embossed copper result of fusion of Byzantine and Romanesque shares of 1500, which is to the left of the presbytery.

The organ of the eighteenth century, is the result of a Pietro Nachini‘s creation, a famous Dalmatian organ builder.
Outside the tower, whose work began in 1463, was rebuilt by Mauro Codussi due to damage suffered as a result of lightning. Codussi increased the height of the tower and covered it in Istrian stone, placing a small dome on top successivamene replaced by a polygonal drum.

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Madonna dell’Orto’s Church

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:06:09 +0000

The church, erected in the northern part of Cannaregio in the mid-fourteenth century by the Congregation of Humble, was originally dedicated to St. Christopher and later to Our Lady.
The present name was wanted by the people following the placement of the statue of the Virgin and Child, a work partially unfinished by Giovanni de Santi, built originally commissioned by the parish priest of Santa Maria Formosa, which, still under construction, not finding a his taste rejected it. De Santi, then, decided to place it provisionally in his garden one night when his wife noticed that the statue strange glow emanated. Following the rapid spread of the news, the site was the destination of countless pilgrimages. The statue was highly venerated by the faithful and some miracles began to occur. The Bishop of San Pietro di Castello, then, urged the sculptor to transfer the statue of the Madonna in the church – now kept in the chapel of San Mauro. The Church is one of the best example of Venetian Gothic.
The charming facade, divided into three parts, was made of brick and is considered one of the most beautiful and interesting facades of the churches of Venice. In the sloping left and right, are kept within the twelve niches statues of the Apostles, from the work of Masegne, while in the lateral areas of the stand out in a beautiful four-Gothic. The central part, are located in the upper part of which a large central rose window and a smaller one on top ‘, houses the magnificent portal by Bartolomeo Bon in whose tower the pointed arch and Renaissance statues of the Archangel Gabriel Annunciation probably attributable to Antonio Rizzo, while to the upper stands the statue of St. Christopher Raverti Gothic work of Matthew.
The interior is very bright and is made up of a typical rectangular basilica with three naves with massive marble columns supporting arches greek double frame.
The church of Our Lady of the garden houses a collection of ten paintings by Tintoretto, of inestimable value, including:

Presentation of Mary at the Temple (1550 – 1553) on the right aisle;
The Beheading of St. Paul (1550 – 1553) on the right side of the apse;
The four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence and Fortitude, the apse;
The vision of the Cross in S. Peter (1550 – 1553) which is located on the left side of the apse;
The Last Judgement (1563) located on the right side of the chancel;
The worship of the golden calf (1563) on the left side of the chancel;
The Miracle of St. Agnes (1575) kept in the chapel or Contarini “Celestine”;

Rich in works of art, the temple houses the first altar on the right, the altarpiece of St. John the Baptist and Saints, dating from the fifteenth century, by Giambattista Cima da Conegliano.

Saint Alvise’s church

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:56:06 +0000

Built together with the monastery in 1388 on commission of the noblewoman Antonia Venier, this church was dedicated to Louis of Toulouse, Bishop of that city, known in Venice as Sant’Alvise, which appeared in a dream to indicate the exact location of the buildings.
The church is located next to Madonna dell’Orto‘s church in the northern part of Cannaregio. The building we can admire today is the result of the changes made in the seventeenth century to the original version. The facade of a disarming simplicity, it is embellished by the portal made of Istrian stone embellished by a fifteenth statue of St. Alvise. The interior consists of a nave crossed transversely from the original chancel roof, also known as boarding, supported by columns and buttresses in Gothic style. The Barco, used by the nuns, is linked to the monastery, in which he retired Antonia Vernier. The ceiling, of great beauty, was designed by Pietro Antonio Torri and Pietro Ricchi (seventeenth century)..
The church kept the cone masterpieces such as:

Stories from the Old Testament represented in tempera on tablets of Lazzaro Bastiani (XV cent.)
Ascent of Christ at Calvary, the Flagellation and the Crowning with Thorns (1737-1740) by Giambattista Tiepolo

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San Stae’s church

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:42:54 +0000

Typical example of eighteenth-century Venetian painting of the onset, the church of San Stae (Venice expression of Sant’Eustacchio) has origins not well defined. According to popular accounts, families Tron, Adolado and Zusto founded the church in 966, while the first evidence of its existence date back to a document drawn up in 1127 when the temple is mentioned as a subsidiary of St. Peter’s Parish in 1331 and reminded as a colleague.
The facade, facing the Grand Canal today, was designed by Domenico Rossi (1709) and decorated with the precious collaboration of sculptors such as Antonio Tarsia, Joseph Torretto, Antonio Corradini and Pietro Baratta.
The interior, commissioned to the architect Giovanni Grassi in the late eighteenth century, has a single nave. On the right side there are three chapels that host many altars on which tower works by Giuseppe Camerata, Nicolo and Antonio Balestra Children who embellished the chapel of “tiraoro and battioro” whose school is near the church. On the left side, chapels hold works by Jacopo Amigoni, Francesco Migliori, Giuseppe e Pietro Baratta Torretto. The presbytery, the museum has several works such as:

The Sacrifice of Melchizedek and the Fall of Manna Joseph’s Angels;
The twelve paintings depicting scenes with the Apostles commissioned thanks to the legacy of Andrea Stazio including: St. Peter released from prison (1717-24) of Sebastiano Ricci – The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (1722) designed by Giambattista Tiepolo – Saint James the Great (1717) Giambattista Piazzetta;
Virtues of the canvas and two brothers of the Blessed Sacrament School dating back to 1708 by Bartolomeo Litterini.

Do not forget, in the sacristy there are also:

The sacrifice of the idols by order of Emperor (1722) by Giambattista Pittoni;
Sant’Eustachio in prison in the eighteenth century by Bartolomeo Litterini;
The Crucifixion of Maffeo Verona seventeenth century ever by Giambattista Pittoni.

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San Giacomo dall’Orio’s church

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:36:44 +0000

Founded in the ninth century, is placed on the list of the oldest churches in Venice and is located in Santa Croce. The origin of the name is uncertain: some say comes from the family Orio, according to others, or a reference from the adjacent channel, or even from the swamp as in the beginning built on an island surrounded by a marsh.
The church was rebuilt in 1225 by families Da Mula and Badoer and subsequently revised in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, has a Latin cross with three naves with a transept of the basilica typical.
The nave is covered with an attractive ceiling keel which indicates the thirteenth-century Gothic Improta. The interior contains some Byzantine elements such as green marble column surmounted by an Ionic capital praised by D’Annunzio, and Jonn Ruskin (spoils of the Fourth Crusade in the East).
The church has recently been restored and houses works by Renaissance and sometimes rare as:

the altarpiece by Lorenzo Lotto depicting the Virgin and Child with Saints and Apostles (1546);
the magnificent masterpiece performed by Paolo Veronese on the ceiling of the sacristy new: some masterpieces by Francesco from Bassano in the new sacristy;
the magnificent altarpiece with titian influences from with Pastor from Ponte by Jacopo Palma the Younger in the old sacristy.

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Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari’s Basilica

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:24:45 +0000

The Basilica, also known as just “Frari,” finds its origins between 1250 and 1338. Built by the Franciscan Friars Minor is now considered, after San Marco, one of the most important Franciscans in Italy, as well as the most outstanding religious aggregate of Venice.
The church was rebuilt in Gothic-Cistercian in the fourteenth century, probably designed by Scipione Bon, a Franciscan friar, which provided for a three naves by seven chapels enriched form of the apse. Over time, the church has become a treasure of countless masterpieces of art, renowned for both value importance, for undertaking a journey through art venziana between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century. Of particular value are:

the Assumption, by Tiziano made exclusively for the high altar;
The Pesaro Altarpiece, also known and executed by Tiziano(1526); the wood sculpture of S. John the Baptist and exclusive Venetian work of the great Donatello;
the Triptych by San Marco Vivarini;
the enchanting masterpiece by Giovanni Bellini: Triptych of the Virgin and Saints (1488) inserted in Pesaro Chapel in the sacristy

In addition to valuables paintings, the church is a special casket of Venetian sculpture collection with works of artistic excellence as:

Zane altar the statue depicting St. Jerome by Alessandro Vittoria;
Tron and Foscari monuments that tower in the sanctuary;
numerous tombs of famous people. One of these is the tomb that holds the Antonio Canova‘s heart, made by his students and that of Tiziano died in 1576.

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San Polo’s church

venezia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:17:05 +0000

Erected in the same district of Venice, the church finds its origins in the ninth century. The first building was partially modified in the fifteenth century with the introduction of Gothic elements such as special side door of Bon, and then in 1804 by David Rossi replacing the columns of the nave and closing and reopening some of the other openings, the modified ‘artistic expression of the church by the late – Gothic to neoclassical. Subsequent restorations have been reported to highlight some key elements of the initial structure: the apsidal presbytery, the mullioned windows of the facade and the wooden ceiling above the nave. Even San Polo does not miss a rich collection of works of art made by:

The Virgin appeared to St. John Nepomuceno, the second altar on the left aisle, a masterpiece by Giambattista Tiepolo (1754).
The Saints and the Assumption and the Last Supper by Tintoretto;
The beautiful paintings that adorn the Salviati Chapel of the Sacrament;
The marriage of Paolo Veronese placed on the altar of the Chapel of the Sacrament;
Paintings by Jacopo Palma the Younger placed in the sanctuary

The Oratory of the Crucifix, was originally built where the entrance from the main facade – now no longer possible – is considered the first work of Giandomenico Tiepolo, son of the great master Giambattista and retains the fourteen Stations of the Cross.
Outside, the bell tower built in 1362, has an input “guarded” from above by two lions facing each one with a snake, the other with a human head between his paws.

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