Scuola Grande Di San Rocco
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The Scuola started out as a charitable confraternity, founded in honor of St. Roch (San Rocco), a saint who dedicated his life to help the sick. During centuries the Scuola became one of the wealthiest in Venice.
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Traghetto Gondole Santa Sofia
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Not everybody knows that it possible to cross the Canal Grande using a gondola traghetto (it means ferry). The shape of this boat is a bit bigger than the normal gondola and it is also not decorated as a fancy gondola, as the metal part in the front is missing.
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Campo San Giacomo da l'Orio
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It's the "campo" more loved by resident people, where they spend a lot of time, above all with children that every afternoon after school, meet each other to play and have fun all year long. The San Giacomo dall'Orio church is one of the most suggestive in the city and where locals often go.
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Pellestrina
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This is a wonderful island in the Venetian Lagoon, where locals are mostly fishermen. Here you can eat and walk and breath as a Venetian does. All its colorful buildings show all the beauty inside this island. Here cars can move, but people used to walk or move by bike.
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Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
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After the Basilica di San Marco, this is the most important in Venice, a big Gotic church built by Franciscan friars. The interior is enormous and includes an high quality of works and art, including masterpieces by Tiziano and Giovanni Bellini, more than a statue by Donatello.
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Signor Blum
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The shopping that locals love!! A wonderful collection of special local handicrafts in wood. SignorBlum is a craft company whose workshop and retail stores are in the heart of old Venice, where it has been making handmade gifts and objects in wood for the home since 1978.
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Lido di Venezia
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This is a little and characteristic island of Venice, a spit of about 12 kilometers between two mouth, Malamocco and the port of San Niccolò. This is the beach of Venetian people and the place where the important International Festival of the Cinema develops.
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San Lazzaro degli Armeni
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Would you imagine there is Egyptian mummy in Venice? The pieces of art and artefacts preserved in this monastery are amazing. It is a real hidden gem to discover.
Here you can skip into the past for a moment and listen to the interesting history of this peaceful community.
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fondazione emilio vedova
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Emilio Vedova was an important Venetian artist, with many experiences of exhibitions, especialized in architecture and scenographies (also in Fenice theatre), but also in pictures and moreover he took part in the Biennale in Venice. His works was exposed also all around Europe.
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San Servolo
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This beautiful Island is a special silent place in Venice, where you can discover a wonderful view towards the Lagoon. Until 1978 was the island of the psychiatric hospital and in 1997 it was brought to new life and now you can find the Venice International University, the “Madness museum”, a peaceful park and much more.
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Palazzo Ducale
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Most locals just admire the palace from outside, but please enter this beauty and if possible book the secret tour, which will show you were Cananova was in jail. The inside part of the palace is gorgeous, and will lt you discover the magnificence of Venice.
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Museo delle icone
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This unique museum recollects many Byzantin and Post-byzantin icons, illuminated manuscripts and sacred vestmensts embroidered in gold as well as many worth artistic and historic handicrafts. This museum was founded in 1959 and renoveted in 1999.
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Mercato di Rialto
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Here it is where local housewives shop in the morning, to find fresh fish, fruits and vegetables. Also some restaurants buy their fresh ingredients at this market. The best thing is to go there during working days except of Monday, because fishermen do not go fishing on Sundays.
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Mazzorbetto
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The island of Mazzorbetto is a little island that it can be visited on the way to Burano. Locals use going there by kayaks or canoes, organizing hikes in group. In the island there is a fortress that was rised from French army in the seventeenth century.
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Church San Giacomo da l'Orio
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The campo surrounding this little church is a great way to see the real Venice. Local kids are playing, their parents are relaxing over an espresso or sitting on a bench. There's also a small community vegetable garden on the middle of the square.
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