Around Santa Croce
 
Santa Croce is an area of contrasts, taking in the exhaust fumes of Piazzale Roma but also the slow charms of one of Venice’s loveliest little squares, Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio. There aren’t many of Venice’s big sights here, but there are a few attractions to see as well as some picturesque canals and corners. The district still bears the name of a monastery which no longer exists. Santa Croce was demolished in 1810 and now a little public park, the Giardino Papadopoli, stands on the site.

On this side of the Grand Canal it can be hard to work out which sestiere you are standing in: Santa Croce, Dorsoduro or San Polo. For sightseeing purposes I wouldn’t necessarily tour these three districts separately because the boundaries are so blurred; it’s more practical to plan a route on your map. Santa Croce and San Polo together make a manageable area for exploration.

Santa Croce is quite a ‘local’ area, traversed by busy lanes used by Venetians and tourists to march from Piazzale Roma towards the Rialto and other parts of Venice. Off these thoroughfares are some sleepy corners and many dead ends.

PINK HOUSE APARTMENT
 LOCATION
This exclusive and refined apartment is situated on the ground floor of a Venetian palace that enjoys an incredible view n to a garden facing the Grand Canal. The neighborhood of this apartment is of particular artistic interested. It is located next to Campo San Zadegola  and Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio, where you find the church of the same name, one of the oldest religious buildings in Venice, it dates back to the 10 century. The interior is rich in artistic treasures, ancient sculptures and works by famous artist including Lorenzo Lotto amd Paolo Veronese.A ten minute walk away is the museum of moderm art, Cà Pesaro, a baroque palace on the Grand Canal, originally commissioned to Longhena by the Pesaro family. Pink House is easily reached by vaporetto by getting off at the Riva di Biasio ( the apartment is located only 10 minuties away from Piazzale Roma bus station and the Santa Lucia train station by vaporetto).DESCRIPTION
Besides its fantastic location on the Grand Canal, this apartment is also unique in that it is decorated by the owners’ exquisite taste classicaly integrating the color pink into much of the furniture, creating a refined and elegant atmosphere in the flat.The apartment is composed of an entrance foyer, a spacious and bright living room with a view of the garden, sofa and fireplace, master bedroom with bed french size, another bedroom wirh two single beds, one bathroom with bathtub, a second bathroom with shower and washing machine, utility closet, and a small private courtyard.The prestigious communal garden is governed by the Ministry of Art Preservation in Venice. It is required to follow the strict communal rules that prohibit walking on or lying in the grass, allowing children to play, bringing animals, or disturbing the neighbors.Ideal for comfortably accommodating up to 4 people.FOR MORE INFORMATION AND FOR SPECIAL PRICE:
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Ponte di Calatrava

Venice’s new bridge across the Grand Canal

ABOVE: This November, 2007 photo shows the bridge’s prefabricated sections in place, with final construction proceeding bit by bit.

September, 2009: After years of construction delays and cost overruns, Venice at last has a fourth bridge across the Grand Canal. The new bridge, the Ponte di Calatrava, was designed by the Spanish architect  Santiago Calatrava, whose past projects have included the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, the Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, and the precedent-setting “twisting torso” skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden.

In January, 2007, construction crews began driving piles for the new bridge in the Canale Grande between the  Piazzale Roma and the Santa Lucia Railroad Station.The bridge’s prefabricated sections were floated to the construction site by barge in August. Some progress had been made on final assembly when the photo above was taken in November, 2007, and the bridge opened to the public on September 11, 2008.

The new bridge is a long, sweeping curve of glass and steel that is designed to complement both the historic buildings on the Piazzale Roma side of the canal and the 1950s modernity of Venice’s main railway station. Now that it’s open, travelers won’t have to go out of their way to cross the canal via the Ponte dei Scalzi or pay to ride the vaporetto as they’ve been forced to do in the past.

The bridge has provoked its share of controversies, including concerns about the bridge’s accessibility to locals and tourists in wheelchairs. (The city has promised to install “egg-shaped lifts” for the disabled, but whether they’ll be more reliable than Venice’s existing platform lifts is unknown. According to an article at VeniceWord, the accessibility features still weren’t working–and the bridge wasn’t in compliance with Italian disability laws–as of September, 2008.)

                                                                                 The Lace Museum

The museum, which opened in 1981, is situated in the old Lace-School of Burano, founded in 1871 by Countess Andriana Marcello with the aim of revitalising a centuries-old tradition. After the School was closed, a Consortium was created by administrative boards in Venice and by the Andriana Marcello Foundation - which had been constituted in the meantime - and in 1978 they launched a campaign to rediscover and re-evaluate this art. The archives of the old School, full of important documents and drawings, were re-ordered and catalogued; the building was restructured and transformed into an exhibition site. This was the beginning of the Lace Museum. It contains many valuable pieces of the School’s rich collection, together with important examples of Venetian products from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Incorporated in 1995 into the Venetian Civic Museums, this building today offers not only items of great value, but also the chance to observe lace-makers at work, keeping up the traditions of the island. It is also possible to consult the archives, an important source of historical and artistic documentation, with drawings, photographs and other iconographic testimony.

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The Lace Museum is closed from the 6th of February to the 1st of November 2008 for restoration works.
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                                                                       The “Angelo ” apartments, in the historical center of Venice, are the ideal residence for an unforgettable vacation!Situated in Campo Sant’Angelo, a few hundred meters from the Rialto Bridge and Piazza San Marco, these flats offer an ideal starting point for visiting the important monuments and art museums. In addition, they are easily reachable from Piazzale Roma or the Santa Lucia train station by taking the N° 1 vaporetto to the Sant’ Angelo stop or the N°82 vaporetto to the Rialto stop and going by foot in the direction of the Accademia Bridge and Campo Sant’ Angelo.

The apartments are all different sizes: studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom, all situated on the first floor ( second floor American). They can satisfy the diverse needs of singles, couples, families with cildren and group of friends ( 12-14 people total ).

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- Angelo yellow apart. (San Marco area)
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- Angelo Green apart. (San Marco area)
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- Angelo blue  apart. (San Marco  area)
http://www.venice-holidays.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=48-  Angelo red   apart.(san Marco area)
http://www.venice-holidays.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=46- Angelo yellow apart. (San Marco area)
http://www.venice-holidays.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=47- Angelo Green apart. (San Marco area)
http://www.venice-holidays.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=45-Biennale apart. (Castello area)
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- Cà Del Campiello ( Castello area )
http://www.tourist-flats.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=63 -Cà Amadi apart. (Cannaregio area)
http://www.venice-holidays.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=49-Carmini apart. ( Dorsoduro area )
http://www.tourist-flats.com/apartment.aspx?cat=&item=59- Casanova 1 apart (Castello area) just 10 minutes walking distance to S.Marco
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- Cà Del Sole apart. ( Cannaregio area)
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- Ca Albachiara apart. ( Cannaregio area)
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- Ca’ Delfina apart (Castello area) just 10 minutes walking distance to S.Marco
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-Casa Sant’Agostin ( San Polo area)
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-Ca Barba apart. ( Dorsoduro area)
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- Ca D’Oro Holidays apart.( Cannaregio area)
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- Cà Salute apart. ( Dorsoduro area ) near Peggy Guggenheim Collection
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- Fenice apart. (San Marco area)
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- Frari apart. (Santa Croce area)
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-Giardini apart.(Castello area) very near Biennale D’Arte
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- Guglie apart. (Cannaregio area) with Canal view
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                                                                             This is the very first exhibition dedicated to George Barbier (1882-1932), artist and fashion illustrator, theatre designer and protagonist of the Art deco movement. Curated by Barbara Martorelli, this exhibition presents over two hundred works including paintings, drawings, articles, pochoir, photographs, books, manuscripts and films from the extensive collections of Palazzo Mocenigo – Study Centre of the History of Fabrics and Costumes, from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale in France, Musée des Beaux Arts in Nantes as well as from private Italian and French collections. By reconstructing the diverse contexts of his production and comparing them to the artistic movements and avant-garde of that period, the exhibition focuses on the manifold aspects of the artist’s creativity, the author of renowned images - including the black panther that is Cartier’s symbol. The exhibition is in collaboration with Venezia Musei. The catalogue is by Marsilio, with essays by Barbara Martorelli, Giandomenico Romanelli, Alain Stoeffler, Mauro Nasti, Giuliano Ercoli, Doretta Davanzo Poli, Carine Picaud, and Jean Izarn.

The exhibition is a remarkable and fitting opportunity to revive both the memory and knowledge of a considerable renown artist while alive but quickly forgotten after his death. For the first time, it makes it possible to study and understand the diverse aspects of his vast production. It is arranged according to themes. It begins with his early works, then continuing with a section dedicated to theatre and cinema with his drawings for costumes and theatre design. It then goes on with a vast, spectacular section dedicated to fashion illustration – including, amongst other things, pochoir, watercolours and drawings - followed by the priceless, limited editions of the highly refined albums, almanacs and books illustrated by Barbier. Finally, the subject of his advertising production is of considerable interest.

 Exhibition layout“Imagine the transformation of an inert drawing, when a beautiful creature comes to admire the costume and below streams of light decorates the very decorations themselves.
Creating real bunches of flowers and looking into a kaleidoscope; becoming the magician who dominates the seven colours and rules the four kingdoms.
Watch the metals become as ductile and fluid as water, the diamonds and paillettes, bundles of feathers and dancing frills, taffeta and satin that always reflect the light or absorb it in the softness of their depth; the dyed furs, painted and recut, real flowers and imitations, even more beautiful than the real ones and finally, the velvet of the pencils with the marvellous substance of their tricks.
You can create a sky-blue protagonist like the hyacinth or one that is ochre like a mandarin and decorate it with outstanding costumes in which love is snuggled like a bee in the heart of a rose”
George Barbier, Le Vestiaire de Thalie, in «Femina», December 1920.Early works
Watercolours, studies, copies and sketches are testimony of the artist’s phase of research and study, often signing his work with the pseudonym Edward William Larry, a name he used until 1912.
His early works (the first documented work goes back to 1899) are an important starting point to understand how his style developed and his multiple interpretations in the various fields. His first personal exhibition was at the Galerie Boutet de Monvel in 1911 with over 92 works belonging to great French collectors and he presented a catalogue with essays written by Pierre Louÿs.

TICKETS
Full price € 20
Reductions € 15 (exhibition reduction)

Advance sale at exhibition

BOOKINGS
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Cost of single booking € 1,00