ART AND CRAFTS IN THE GREAT SCHOOLS, THE PLACES OF CULTURE AND THE PIETY OF THE SERENISSIMA
Duration: 6,50 hours (transfer excluded)
Among the historic districts of Venice, you can hear the echoes of the great nobles conversing with the people going to the meetings in the Great Schools of the city.
This tour leads to the discovery of four Great Schools, symbols of cultural and humanitarian brotherhoods of Venice. The tour begins in the Scuola Grande dei Carmini, where the ancient furnishings of the devotees and charitable associates are surrounded by religious frescoes by Tiepolo.
Like precious gems, set in the gilded inlaid ceiling, Tintoretto's canvases adorn the chapter house of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, the richest and most long-lived Scuola Grande in the city.
The symbolic Eagle overlooks the marble entrance to the Scuola Grande of St. John the Evangelist, which today still houses the confraternity that has been meeting for over 700 years to admire its masterpieces.
In the afternoon, the walk leads to the Scuola Grande di San Marco, so important that it received the name of the city's great patron saint. In the great chapter room, with its golden leaf ceiling, the winged Lion watches over the six canvases of the great artists.
Continuing along the promenade of the Sestiere di Cannareggio, you will come across the Kosher shops and the palaces of the old ghetto of the city, which evokes the memory of difficult times and a new found serenity.
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The Great Schools of Venice
- Walk in the Sestieri of Dorsoduro, known as the university district and San Polo, where the famous Rialto bridge and the homonymous market stand out
Visit to the painted treasures of the Great Schools:
- Great school dei Carmini with its religious frescoes by Tiepolo
- Great school di San Rocco and the paintings by Tintoretto that adorn its walls
- Great School of San Giovanni Evangelista with the symbolic eagle that dominates its marble entrance
- Great School of San Marco with the great chapter house, the ceiling decorated in gold leaf and the winged lion that watches over the six paintings of the great artists.
- Visit to the characteristic and suggestive Cannaregio district
- Walk among the shops and buildings of the Jewish Ghetto