Bridge · Veneto
Rialto Bridge
The Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto) is a single-arch bridge across the Grand Canal in Venice, one of the four bridges that cross the canal.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia) is the capital city of the Veneto region, built on islands in the Venetian Lagoon, with a historic centre of six sestieri; its municipality also takes in lagoon islands such as Murano and Burano.
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Italy
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City
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Gallery · Cannaregio, Veneto
Ca' d'Oro (Galleria Giorgio Franchetti)
The Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro is a state art museum in the Ca' d'Oro, a late-Gothic palace in Venice's Cannaregio district.
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Museum · San Marco, Veneto
Museo Correr
The Museo Correr is a civic museum on St Mark's Square in Venice, in the Napoleonic Wing and part of the Procuratie Nuove, founded on the collection Teodoro Correr left to the city.
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Church · San Marco, Veneto
St Mark's Basilica
St Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco) is the cathedral church of Venice, on St Mark's Square in the San Marco district.
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Museum · San Marco, Veneto
Doge's Palace
The Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) is the former residence of the Doge and seat of the Venetian Republic's government in the San Marco district of Venice, now a civic museum.
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Museum · San Polo, Veneto
Scuola Grande di San Rocco
The Scuola Grande di San Rocco is the seat of a lay confraternity in Venice's San Polo district, with a cycle of paintings by Tintoretto in its halls.
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Guides to Venice
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Useful from Venice
Travel Guide01
Accademia in Florence or Venice: which one has Michelangelo's David?
Florence and Venice each have a museum called the Accademia, and only Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia holds Michelangelo's David. Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia is a separate museum of Venetian painting; this explainer sets out what each holds and how to tell them apart.
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Travel Guide02
Duomo, cattedrale, basilica, chiesa: what Italian church words mean
Italian signs use duomo, cattedrale, basilica and chiesa for overlapping things, and one building can carry three of the names at once. This explainer gives each word's meaning from Treccani's dictionary and the Code of Canon Law, shows how Milan, Florence, Venice and Rome's Pantheon combine them, and explains why the word on the sign tells you less about a visit than the body that runs the building.
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Travel Guide03
Italy travel guide: choosing regions and city bases
XTOUR plans Italy around city bases rather than regions: Rome, Florence, Venice, Verona, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Palermo, Genoa, Bolzano, Pisa and Siena. This guide says what each base is for, which major sites are in a city and which are only reached from one, and where XTOUR's more detailed guides take over.
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Travel Guide04
Is Tuscany a city? Italy's regions, provinces and city names explained
Tuscany is one of Italy's twenty regions, not a city: Florence is its capital, and Pisa and Siena are separate towns inside it. This explainer sets out how Italy's regions, provinces, metropolitan cities and municipalities fit together, why the English and Italian names differ, and why XTOUR records cities rather than regions.
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Travel Guide05
Doge's Palace, St Mark's Basilica and Venice's civic museums: who runs which visit
The Doge's Palace and St Mark's Basilica are run by different bodies and sold through different ticket offices. Here is who runs each visit, what each operator's ticket covers according to its own pages, and which rules XTOUR leaves to the operators.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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