Attractions
- Historic Palace
Doge's Palace
The Gothic seat of Venetian power for a thousand years, connected to the old prisons by the Bridge of Sighs.
- Museum
Gallerie dell'Accademia
Venice's principal art museum, holding the world's largest collection of Venetian painting from Bellini to Titian.
- Family-Friendly
Natural History Museum of Venice
A Grand Canal palace turned natural history museum, whose star attraction is a 7-metre Ouranosaurus skeleton — a reliable hit with children between churches and museums.
- Square
Piazza San Marco
Venice's only "piazza" — the grand civic and religious square framed by the Basilica, the Campanile, and the arcaded Procuratie, and famously described by Napoleon as "the finest drawing room in Europe."
- Monument
Rialto Bridge
The oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal, lined with shops since the 16th century.
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Squero di San Trovaso
One of the last working gondola boatyards in Venice, its wooden sheds and slipway looking much as they did centuries ago, best seen from across the canal on Fondamenta Nani.
- Church
St Mark's Basilica
Venice's cathedral church, a Byzantine-domed masterpiece covered in gold mosaics on Piazza San Marco.
- Historic Site
Teatro La Fenice
Venice's storied opera house, rebuilt twice after fire and still the stage where Rossini, Bellini, and Verdi premiered some of their greatest works.