Stazione di Santa Lucia
It has marked the entrante to the city since 1860 when the first station was built.The present building was erected in 1954.
Gli Scalzi
This Baroque church was designed by Longhena (1598-1682). Its most distinctive features are the niches in the fgade (1672-78), which are adorned with statues and framed with paired columns.
Ponte degli Scalzi
The original construction (1858) was undertaken by the civil engineer, Neville, who was also responsible for the first Accademia ' Bridge. It was rebuilt in 1934.
San Geremia
From the water ali that can be
seen of the Church of St Jerome is the Chapel of Saint Lucy, which houses the remains of the Sicilian martyr.
Palazzo Labia
This elegant 18C residence on the corner of the Cannaregio Canal is slightly set back from the Grand Canal. The ground floor is rusticated, with Ionic and Corinthian
pilasters on the two floors above
the large windows open out onto balconies. The eagles which protrude from under the roof refer to
the heraldry of the Labia family.
San Marcuola
This church is distinctive from others overlooking the Grand Canal: the roughly-bricked fgade
remains incomplete. Interestingly, this is actually the side of the church. Its present appearance is Baroque in style, but the church is much older.
Palazzo Vendramin Calergi
This Renaissance palace was commissioned by the noble family of Loredan al Codussi, who worked in the city between 1502 and 1504. With composite three-arched windows, it is a synthesis of Byzantine and Gothic architectural features. Here, Richard Wagner lived and worked. The palazzo currentiy serves as the winter headquarters of the municipal casino (plans are afoot to use it for a different purpose).
Ca' d'Oro
Much restoration work has recaptured the palazzo's former glory: its fagade, a subtle creation in the ornate Gothic style, presents a colonnade lapped by the water's edge - proof of its use as a warehouse as well as a residence - and, on the upper floors, two enclosed loggias with arched windows, interlaced with intersecting tracery and quatrefoils. Curiously, this decorative feature is not centred in the fagade. The right section consists of a blank wall between single-arched windows. The corners are accentuated by cordons of marble.The palazzo houses the
Galleria Franchetti which contains the famous painting of Saint Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna (143 1-1506).
Ca' da Mosto
Erected in the 13C, this Veneto-Byzantine palazzo was where Alvise da Mosto (1432-88) was born, the great navigator who explored the western coast of Africa as far as Cape Verde. The portico betrays the building's dual function as house and warehouse. Note the first-floor ceiling decorated with circular coffering or patera. Between the 16C and 18C, the palazzo served as the city's finest hotel, the Leon Bianco.
Fondaco dei Zledeschi
This 13C palazzo served as the headquarters of German traders and as a warehouse for their goods. Devastated , by fire (1505-O8), it was rebuilt by Giorgio Spavento (in Venice between the ; 15C and 16C) and by Scarpagnino , (in Venice between 1505 and 1549). The fagade that overlooks ' the Grand Canal, at one time ! frescoed by Giorgione (c 1476', I 5 I 0) and Titian (1490-1576), has , a portico on the ground floor, as ', befitted a fondaco (warehouse). It houses the main post office.
Ponte di Rialto
The Rialto Bridge is the most , important crossing point between the two banks of the Grand Canal. Although today's bridge is the sixth , version - the originai was built in 1175 - this is the first stone-built
construction.The work of Antonio
da Ponte was opened in 1591.The I shops, housed in the symmetrical , arcades, were originally used by bankers and moneylenders, in proximity so the first Zecca.
Palazzo Loredan
Also a fondaco (warehouse), this Veneto-Byzantine palazzo retains originai features: part of the portico and windows opening out onto the loggia, interlaced with pateras, run the length of the first floor. Palazzo Loredan and the nearby Palazzo Farsetti now accommodate municipal offices.
Palazzo Lando Corner Spinelli
This Renaissance palazzo erected in 1490 was probably designed by Mauro Codussi. The fagade in Istrian stone is heavily rusticated. The upper storeys are punctuated with typical two-light windows,and a Renaissance frieze of festoons runs below the attic windows.
Palazzo Mocenigo
This building comprises four adjacent palazzi. The first dates back to 1579, when it was rebuilt according to the designs of Alessandro Vittoria. The second and third buildings, which are identical, are from the end of the 16C; the last, the so-called "Casa Vecchia", a Gothic construction, was remodelled by Francesco Contin during the first half of the 17C. Previous inhabitants of this group of palazzi include Giordano Bruno (15481600) and Lord Byron (17881824), who started work on his "Don Juan" here. The English "Don Giovanni" often swam home from, a day at San Lazzaro or an evening ' at the Lido: a habit that instituted a swimming race that was held until 1949 and rewarded by the Byron Cup.
Palazzo Grassi
Erected in 1749 by Giorgio Massari (1687-1766), possibly Venice's greatest architect in the first half of the 18C,this last Venetian palace to be built before the fali of the Republic is designed with ali the
majesty of neo-Classical domestic architecture at its best. Inside, the courtyard has a fine colonnade and a grand staircase frescoed by Alessandro Longhi (1733-1813) ', populated with masked figures.Other rooms are frescoed by jacopo Guarana (1720-1808) and , Fabio Canal (1703-67). Today the building is used for prestigious temporary exhibitions.
Ponte dell'Accademia
Venice had to wait until 1854 for its second and third means of, crossing the Grand Canal after, the Rialto Bridge.The original iron , construction, restricted in height, hindered the passage of the vaporettos; rettos; the bridge was replaced in 1932, and built of wood because of lack of funds.The present bridge is a copy of it.