Accompanying Person
Accompanying people wishing to visit Venice are invited to join the following tours.
We kindly ask you to subscribe to one or more of them, by sending an e-mail before July, the 14th. Prices (including entrance fees, an English speaking official guide for 3 hours and headphones) depends on the number of participants. There are special prices for those who decide to join more than one tour.
WALKS INSIDE VENICE July 21-23, 2008
First Tour Monday, July 21st
San Marco : the Power of the Past, the Everlasting Myth - The Basilica, the Doge's Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, the Prisons - A must for any visitor to Venice. St Mark' s Basilica with the spiritual, all-pervading light of its golden mosaics, with its sumptuously coloured marble floor, will introduce the theme of Venice' s intense relations with Constantinople and the Eastern world. We shall then enter the Doges Palace, seat of the Venetian power for over nine centuries. Today's visitors, like past ones, will be overwhelmed by the wealth of its decoration, and will learn about the rise and fall of “La Serenissima, the most Serene Venetian Republic”. Cross the Bridge of Sighs and the Prisons, still in use until 1922, and then back to the Palace for a last view of the majestic Giants' Staircase.
Costs: 40-65 Euro
Second tour Tuesday, July 22nd
San Polo and the Venetian Colour - Not to be missed, especially by art lovers. The huge church of the Frari possesses some absolute masterpieces of Venetian painting: Giovanni Bellini' s 1488 "Sacra Conversazione", Titian's revolutionary „Assumption of the Virgin", and his “Pala Pesaro”, still on their original altars. Just a few steps away we find the marble facade of the “Scuola di S.Rocco”, once the seat of a brotherhood who strove to assist people during the plagues. Here Jacopo Tintoretto had his greatest opportunity to express his visionary, at times almost terrific genius, achieving to some of his most unforgettable creations. We'll continue our journey into Venetian Colour by exploring the open air Rialto market, with its fish, fruit, and vegetables sellers, ideal place for wine and food tasting.
Costs: 37-60 euro
Third tour Wednesday, July 23rd
Dorsoduro and a Venetian "palazzo"" This itinerary takes you into some picturesque corners of the Dorsoduro district, Venice's Rive Gauche. Past the vast Campo Santa Margherita, where students and artists meet at the many open air café, we visit Ca' Rezzonico, one of the most flamboyant private residences on the Grand Canal. Designed by Baldassarre Longhena and completed by Giorgio Massari the palazzo boasts scintillating frescoed ceilings by Giiambattista Tiepolo, original 18th century furniture, glass chandeliers and ceramics, plus the only outstanding Canalettoes still existing in Venice. Past San Trovaso, one of the last gondola yards, we walk along the Zattere, the sunny promenade lining the Giudecca Canal, much frequented by local people in the warm summer evenings, particularly reknown for its icecream parlours.
Costs: 28 – 40 euro.
Social Program
SATURDAY 19 - SUNDAY 20 JULY 2008: Festa del Redentore The Redentore is one of the Venetians' most treasured festivities, and is a tourist attraction thanks to the spectacular firework display in the evening of the saturday. At sunset the well illuminated boats, decorated with boughs and coloured balloons, begin congregating in Saint Mark's Basin and the Giudecca Canal. In the boats people eat traditional food, waiting for the firework display, which begins at 11.30pm and lasts until after midnight.
THURSDAY 24 Social dinner at Locanda Cipriani
Contact Information
Prof. Giulia Licini
Conference Co-Chair
Department of Chemical Sciences
University of Padova
via Marzolo 1
35131 Padova
Italy
Conference email: adhoc2008@unipd.it
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