All twelve places.
From the doge's palace to a Burano lace-maker's house — Venice in twelve buildings, grouped by kind.
Three palatial houses on the Grand Canal — the seat of the doge and the merchant residences that imitated it.
Palazzo Ducale
For nearly a thousand years this was the political centre of the Republic — the doge's residence, the supreme court, the…
Ca' d'Oro
The most beautiful Gothic façade on the Grand Canal — once gilded leaf by leaf, hence the name, and now the home of a sm…
Ca' Rezzonico
A baroque palazzo by Longhena, finished a century later by Massari, and now a museum whose rooms still feel like a worki…
Three of the city's most consequential churches: the basilica of the Republic, a baroque thanksgiving and a Franciscan giant.
Basilica di San Marco
A Byzantine church grafted onto a Venetian piazza, faced in marble looted from a dozen ports, and roofed inside with eig…
Santa Maria della Salute
The white octagonal basilica that closes the Grand Canal, raised in thanks for the end of the 1630 plague and held up on…
Basilica dei Frari
A vast brick Franciscan church that holds Titian's Assumption, his tomb, Canova's pyramid and the wooden choir…
Two collections that run deeper than they look: a confraternity hall hung with Tintoretto, and a perfumed merchant's residence.
Scuola Grande di San Rocco
A confraternity hall with sixty paintings by Tintoretto on its walls and ceilings — the longest single commission given…
Palazzo Mocenigo
A patrician house museum in Santa Croce — costume, lace, perfume bottles, and the rooms of a family that gave the Republ…
The clock tower of the Republic and the shipyard that armed it — two civic monuments to Venetian ambition.
An island of lace and a garden of pavilions — a counterweight to the marble of the centre.
