We suggest our curious guest, who would like to avoid crowded places, different sights and realities that we love.
It is an unusual itinerary, followed also by bike, in order to visit the wonderful mansion-houses of the Venetian patricians who used to come here to spend their holidays. Some of them where kings, artisits, and highly-cultured men paid their visits, can still be visited.
It is a circular route that includes some of the Master’s masterpieces such as some mansion-houses that combined the Renaissance clues with the dictates of the GreekRoman architecture influencing it all over the world.
An artist is individualized by his work, and Venice has got some well-known masterpieces of this architect who was influenced by Wright, and the Japanese culture. The itinerary goes from the university portals, to the iconic Negozio Olivetti to the evocative garden of the Querini Stampalia Foundation.
The trip suggests three involving experiences totally different: Villa Maser, a masterpiece by Palladio where architecture, painting and environment are inseparable; Asolo, a romantic, hilly little town of Medieval origins; Brion’s
monumental tomb that is a Hymn to love and nature.
Whoever loves Venice can’t ignore its farthest isles. That is why it is a good choice to save a day for the incredible Torcello Basilica, then enjoying Burano’s colours as far as the furnaces in Murano where many skillful hands have moulded shapeless sands to make glassware of unusual lightness and brightness.
That is an itinerary unfit for hurried people who like the crowd. In fact that is a suitable route in order to get lost along the Sestieri, breathing the authentic city air, spotting less known churches, coming across charming palaces overlooking campielli busy with children’s games. That is the way you understand that beyond the tourist Venice thereis another city that may be defined a minor one by people who are unaware of it.
In a such variform region where food and wines are different, you can’t always orientate yourself. This suggestion doesn’t mean to influence a choice or a route, but it is up to suggest only wine-gastronomic experiences in various places so that it is an opportunity to know products, people, and interresting stories.
If you want to realize what Venice is , you must examine its natural habitat: shoals lying down between land and water to protect birds of passage, and marine faumna; thin sandy tongues in Pellestrina that have protected the city for centuries, and last but not least Chioggia, a vivacious minor Venice inhabited by fishermen.
That is where you can discover the XIVth cent. city places with Giotto’s, Giusto de’ Menabuoi’s, Guariento’s frescoes from whose masterpieces the modern painting was born. You can wander about in a cultured and vivacious reality that has housed for 800 years one of the oldest and most prestigious universities together with lots of other monuments.
Its risurgence, limpid water river flows through this little city whose medieval glimpses areunexpected. That is a human dimension well preserved thanks to a city fabric balanced between the past and the future. All that can be seen strolling in the city where Tiramisu’ was made.
In here Palladio celebrates his triumph as, blending reality with imagination , he reaches an inseparable unicum: you can find it in his amazing Teatro Olimpico, in his Basilica where beauty is harmonious, in its monumental palaces that overlook the ancient Roman streets. And every time we are astonished in front of such masterpieces.
Starting from the Arena Romana as far as Giulietta’s house, then from Arche Scaligere to S.Zeno’s Basilica, every age has left in this city unmistakable signs of greatness. The best way to take possession of them is following a simple and curious itinerary that connects narrow roads to paths along the river Adige.
The best way to appreciate a wine is to taste it in the location where it is produced, much better if you walk in the wineyards lying on those hills that are Unesco heritage, strolling afterwards in the villagesmrich in historymand traditions.
