Exploring Venice

It is impossible to quantify what to see in Venice and its surroundings! From the old charming city center to the small town and typical villages, tourists always discover something new. For this reason it is quite impossible to make a selection although there are some places that visitors cannot miss. This is the case of Venice and its hart, Piazza San Marco with the old picturesque Basilica and Palazzo Ducale.
Not far from there, there is the impressive Ponte di Rialto with shops on it. There are also many interesting museums that are worth a visit. For those who want to know a bit more of the history, art and culture in Venice there is the Museum of Venetian 700s. settled at Ca’ Rezzonico. But Venice is not only the place of the past, it offers several places and museums that are symbolically the celebration of how past can harmoniously live with the modernism of the present.
This is the case of the worldwide famous Paggy Gugennheim collection, the most significant museum of art of the first half of the twenty century. But the most beautiful and superlative museum is Venice itself. This fascinating city is an open air museum. To be there and walk along its narrow calli, its colorful campi, its picturesque bridges have a rest drinking a coffee, is an unforgettable experience. More than 100 churches are in Venice and all of them are masterpieces of art. To visit all of them would take a long time but there are a few, Basilica di San Marco, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, that can be considered the most representative.