Travel:III-La Biannale 61. Venice, Italy. "In Minor Keys" 🎼. Other Venues. Oct. 2026

Oct 13

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Continuation of a Visit to the Venice Art Biannale -Oct 10-14/2026

Giardini (here) Arsenalle (here)

Notable Off-Site Exhibits and Projects all around Venice

Beyond the main 2 Biannale locations, at the Giardini and Arsenale, other 46 external national pavilions and 31 official collateral events, are showcased alongside major independent museum and venues, scattered across the city's historic palazzi and churches.

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Vatican Exhibit

The Vatican (acting as the Holy See) regularly participates in the Venice Biennale with its own national exhibition space, though it does not have a permanent brick-and-mortar pavilion building inside the central Giardini or Arsenale like some other nations. Instead, the Holy See sets up its exhibitions at varying, unique cultural or historical sites across Venice.

The Holy See exhibit is titled "The Ear Is The Eye Of The Soul",

It is centered on the concept of listening and is inspired by the work and figure of the 12th C German woman Saint and Doctor of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen.

She was known as an esteemed writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic Church.

She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history.

The exhibition spans in 2 specific Venice locations:

At a Garden (Cannaregio district) + At a Church (Costelo District)

I. The Mystical Garden of the Discalced Carmelites -

Situated in a 17th-c enclosed monastic space (usually closed to the public)

Giardino Mistico dei Carmelitani Scalzi, Cannaregio District 54, is set

right behind the Church of Santa Maria di Nazareth (Chiesa degli Scalzi) and

near the Santa Lucia railway station

Reservations: https://www.coopculture.it/it/eventi/evento/lorecchio-e-locchio-dellanima/

https://ticketing.coopculture.it/event/14163EFD-3212-9E72-0513-019DD9D6CB8E?lang=en

The Garden functions as an Acoustic Sanctuary.

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Ben Vickers in collaboration with Soundwalk Collective, the Garden as a "sonic prayer" invites visitors to slow down and practice contemplative listening.

A custom bioacoustic instrument built by the firm, translates the real-time bioelectric activity of the garden's plants, soil, and wind, into an evolving ambient soundscape. Moving through the grounds while experiencing headphone-based and site-specific sound, commissions reinterpreting the 17th C Hildegard of Bingen's chants and philosophy from prominent creators,

II.The Second Venue - Church

Complesso di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice - at Castello District.

also known locally as San Gioacchin is set at Fondamenta S. Gioachin, in the eastern part Castello near Via Garibaldi and the Ponte San Gioachino bridge.

Opening hours: 11 am - 7 pm (May to Sept.), 10 am - 6 pm (Oct. to 22 Nov) (no reservation required)

This venue has been transformed into a contemporary scriptorium and living archive, that explores the legacy of the mystic Saint Hildegard of Bingen.

The exhibit displays research, texts, and a final visual presentation by the late German filmmaker Alexander Kluge,

It deliberately integrates scaffolding and construction elements into the presentation, to maintain the raw feeling of an architectural site under active restoration.

<<The Chiesa di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice

is a late 19th-c Benedictine and Salesian building complex.

The Bahamas Pavilion

The Bahamas Pavilion

Location: at the San Trovaso Art Space Dorsoduro 947,

The Bahamas Pavilion returns to the Venice Biennale for the first time in 13 years, marking only the second appearance in the nation's history.

Titled "In Another Man's Yard", the exhibition features an inter-generational dialogue between the late revered Bahamian pioneer multidisciplinary master artist of post-Independence Bahamas, John Beadle (1964–2024)

in tandem and ending his enduring legacy, with new, densely layered hybrid creations, by his former student.-the critically acclaimed contemporary visual artist Lavar Munroe, (Born 1982) Bahamian-American artist

Both Beadle’s and Munroe’s work, curated by Dr. Krista Thompson. is deeply rooted in Bahamian artistic and social practices, like the visual philosophy and resilient spirit of Junkanoo - the national cultural processional festival and street parade of The Bahamas,

Junkanoo, is celebrated with vibrant costumes, rhythmic percussion, and energetic dancing that continues to inspire generations of Bahamian

The tradition began in the 18th C, during British colonial rule, when enslaved Africans were given a 3 days holiday at Christmas. Resisting oppression, the time off was used to celebrate their heritage, freedom, and community using handmade masks, native materials, and drums.

Sculptures and large-scale installations which incorporate unconventional and discarded items, including cardboard and remnants of festive customs convey this poignant posthumous expression that overlooked labor, Junkanoo traditions, and hidden social narratives.

At Ca Pesaro - National Modern Art Gallery - Jenny Saville

Location: Santa Croce 2076, Accessible via the Grand Canal Vaporetto line

Open: Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The 17th c Baroque marble palace overlooking the Grand Canal which was built for the noble and wealthy Pesaro family - a prominent patrician dynasty famous for figures like the 17th-c Doge Giovanni Pesaro and the Renaissance masterpiece they commissioned from Titian.

The building turned in 1902 into a museum, and houses the International Gallery of Modern Art (Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna).

It features major 19th- and 20th-C masterpieces, alongside the Museum of Oriental Art on its top floor.

Permanent collection features iconic works from early Venice Biennale exhibitions, including pieces by:Gustav Klimt, Marc Chagall, Auguste Rodin, and Wassily Kandinsky.

Temporary Exhibit Jenny Saville at Ca Pesaro

28 March 2026 - 22 November 2026

The first major solo exhibition in Venice by renowned contemporary British painter Jenny Saville. coinsiding with the Biannale, features Retrospective art creation through over 30 monumental canvases and works on paper spanning Saville's career from the 1990s to the present.

The UK born (1970) figurative painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. lives and works in Oxford. She is noted for her large-scale nudes unconventional female subjects.

The recurring figures depicted in her work range from mothers, children, transgender people, burn victims, and cosmetic surgery patients.

As of 2018, she is regarded as the "Most Expensive Living Female Artist"

Hyphen (1999)

Influenced by Venice historical artistic heritage by Old Masters & Lucian Freuds (1922 - 2011) huge non-attractive women, places Sevulle's seminal large-scale, tactile paintings pieces on display like: Hyphen (1999) Reverse (2002–13), and Byzantium (2018) along with newly commissioned works created specifically as a tribute to the city of Venice, in direct conversation with the masters while also redefine modern representations of the body..

Byzantium (2018) Focus (2022-24) Reverse (2002–13)

Saville rejects the "cutesy" or idealized conventions of babies in art history, children who were depicted as wriggling, heavy, and instinctual little bodies, like in the religious Pieta, Instead,

She takes children off the cross in her art. Inspired by Renaissance depictions of the Madonna and Child (such as Michaeangelo or Leonardo da Vinci),

her subversive art transforms static religious icons into messy, contemporary realities filled with the noise, sucking, kicking, and anxiety of real child care. In her monumental paintings and charcoal drawings, Saville reflects on children and childhood not through sentimental sweetness, but through the raw, chaotic, and animalistic physicality of shared flesh between mothers and infants. Becoming a mother shifted her artistic focus toward the visceral dynamics of birth, vulnerability, and the demanding labor of child-rearing.

Monumental, visceral depictions of the human body, female flesh, self nudity portraits and anti-classical brutal expressive realism..are encountered at the exhibit, The huge canvases force the viewer to confront the hipper realistic, non- sensual physical presence and scale of the body.

Her art is rendered with thick, heavily layered oil paint, subverts traditional beauty standards, through exaggerated, raw, and tactile portrayals of skin, blemishes, and corporeal mass.

It doesn't portray empowerment of women but misery and painful anti-feminism, like in the painting of the women sitting on an uncomfortable narrow stool,

The painting of the women sitting on an uncomfortable narrow stool,

carries in its background a text by

Luce Irigaray -a Belgian-born French philosopher, linguist, and psychoanalyst renowned for her critical work in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy.

Born in 1930, she is known for her groundbreaking 1974 text, Speculum of the Other Woman

She argues that Western philosophy and psychoanalysis view the male body and male experience as the universal human norm, rendering female identity invisible or derivative.

Furthermore she emphasizes the philosophical and ontological importance of recognizing sexual difference rather than just pushing for legal or social equality, and

she advocates for the creation of new forms of language and expression that allow female subjectivity and bodily experiences to be authentically communicated.

Definition of women about their own body image or sexual perspective should not be

one dictated by men or religion,,, who historically defined women for ages.. not as a talent, intellect or other creative skills, but mainly as a womb or by assigning females magic powers- of temptresses witch-craft sorceress.

Chagall Kandinsky

From the permanent collection at the museum Chagall's Rabbi and Kandinsky's painting

At San Giorgio Maggiore - Barry X Ball

With Public Vaporetto Line 2 from the San Zaccaria stop (near St. Mark's Square)

Set on the island above the blue lagoon's water, is the historic Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore. The 16th-c Benedictine Church (monastery Basilica) was designed in a classical Renaissance style brilliant white marble, by architect Andrea Palladio, It hosts the "The Shape of Time" (free admission)

Shape Of Time , coinciding with the Biannale, is a major solo survey exhibition by American sculptor

Barry X Ball ,(1955) and curator Bob Nickas , blending advanced digital technology with traditional craftsmanship

Born in Pasadena Barry X Ball the American artist who resides and works in NYC, is a conceptual painter who turned into a sculpture, He takes the forms and production methods of traditional sculpture and weds them to contemporary computerized robotic technologies. installations. His work has been widely exhibited internationally over the last 30 years and is represented in many public and private collections.

The last Pieta of Michelangelo in alabaster stone, is manipulated by technological means -dialog with the past classical art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tCOoIQM84

This exhibition features inside the sacred Palladian space, 23 striking contemporary sculptures that merge high-tech digital production with meticulous traditional hand-carving in rare stones, precious metals, and marble.

2 large portrait sculptures are displayed prominently within the wooden stalls of the basilica's Choir, including a masterwork depicting Pope Saint John Paul II cast in solid silver and 18K gold.

The Pop on thrown is influence by Merdardo Rosso 1858- 1928) Italian

sculptor, working in a post-Impressionist style

3 recent stone and marble Buddha interpretations arranged in a cruciform composition inside the Sacristy, creating an ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic interior.

10 works positioned along the connecting corridor, rare early and late career-spanning works crafted in materials like Belgian black marble, onyx, wax and bronze, reflected in mirrors.

At Galleria Dell'Accademia - Marina Abramović

Located: at Calle della Carità, 1050,

the Dorsoduro district

(vaporetto) Line 1 or 2 to the Accademia Stop, or walk roughly 15 to 20 minutes from St. Mark's Square,

Marina Abramović - "Transforming Energy"

May 16 - October 19, 2026

The Gallerie dell'Accademia - a museum gallery of pre-19th-c art, housed in a building complex (comprising the former Scuola Grande, church, and convent of Santa Maria della Carità (from the 14th C) on the south bank of the Grand Canal

Renowned artist Marina Abramović makes history in 2026 as the first living female artist to be honored with a major exhibition, curated by Shai Baitel, Artistic Director of the Modern Art Museum-at the Gallerie dell’Accademia

World-acclaimed Serbian performance art pioneer and contemporary shaman Marina Abramović (1946)

explores in her conceptual and performance work notions like:

body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. as well as new notion of artistic identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits"

The exhibition , by whom refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". unfolds both in the permanent collection galleries and in the temporary exhibition spaces, and marks the artist’s 80th birthday. The art work establishes a profound dialogue - a conceptual bridge between her pioneering performance art - contemporary endurance/performance practice, and classical Venetian Renaissance masterpieces that have shaped Venice’s cultural identity.

The artistic practice is transformed into a ritual which confronts, tests, challenges and heals the body and psyche, reestablishing connections between the individual and the collective.

Visitors are invited to interact with energy transmitters, her signature mineral-embedded structures and stone beds infused with quartz and amethyst, to experience active physical and mental presence rather than passive observation. Vulnerability, silence, and sensory deprivation are explored as a meditative counterpoint to the overstimulation of contemporary art fairs.

Infused with Mineral Energy at the Museum

In the main hall for limited presentation is a pile of beef bones with photos of her parents & her Balkan Baroque (1997)

Other Iconic work :

Imponderabilia (1977), Rhythm 0 (1974), Light/Dark (1977), and Carrying the Skeleton (2008) appear alongside projections of early performances.

While new works created for the occasion bring her decades-long exploration of endurance, vulnerability and transformation into sharp relief.

One of the exhibition’s highlights is the presentation of her Pietà . Marina holding her lover Oleg (1983) predicating the future of his death of cancer, placed in direct dialogue with Pietà (ca. 1575–76) by Titian, the artist’s final unfinished masterpiece, later completed by Palma il Giovane.

This historic juxtaposition, marking 450 years since Titian’s Pietà, reinterprets Renaissance archetypes of suffering, transcendence, and redemption through a contemporary lens, underscoring the enduring role of the human body as a site of both pain and spiritual elevation.

Shoes of Departure - (1991) heavy, large unwearable footwear sculptures carved out of massive Brazilian quartz and amethyst crystals. on display

in front of the Venetian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese (1573) The Feast in the House of Levi

The crystalline shoes are conceptually designed for the public to stand inside with bare feet and closed eyes to undergo a "mental, not physical, departure".

Placing them directly in front of this extravagant banquet sets up a direct contrast, which symbolically invite the viewer to abandon the excesses of the material world depicted in Veronese's feast and depart/ transcend into an intimate, spiritual, and meditative realm

At Palazzo Manfrin Venier - Anish Kapoor

Location: Fondamenta Venier, Cannaregio District

Open Tuesday through Sunday 10:00 to 18:00 (last admission at 17:30)

Vaporetto Stop: is Guglie, which is just a short 3-minute walk away

Across from the entrance to Venice Jewish Ghetto neighborhoo

The 16th-C Baroque-style Venetian palace in Cannaregio, that currently serves as the permanent home of the Anish Kapoor Foundation was Built in 1520 by the Priuli family- a prominent aristocratic family in the Republic of Venice who entered the Venetian nobility early in the 14th c It was redesigned in the 18thC by architect Andrea Tirali, (1660–1737) and later owned by Count Girolamo Manfrin (1742 – 1801)

Restored in the early 2020s to function as a public cultural center and foundation space.

The British Indian artist -Sir Anish Kapoor born in Mombai 1954 is a famous sculptor specializing in installation and conceptual art, creating monumental, perception-bending public sculptures and immersive installations that challenge how viewers interact with physical space and light. He has exhibited all around the world and has received several distinctions and prizes

An ambitious solo exhibition brings together around 100 realized and unrealized projects spanning the last 50 years of Kapoor's large-scale installations, architectural models and sculptures alongside a series of mirror and stainless-steel works. and iconic installations including "Descent into Limbo" (1992) and a new black-pigment version of "At the Edge of the World" (1998), and Vantablack sculpture

Francois Pinault Collection

Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Collection - Michael Armitage

Palazzo Grassi

Located: Campo San Samuele, 3231

on the Grand Canal of Venice, between the Palazzo Moro Lin and the campo San Samuele. (Handy Info)

Open daily, except Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Last entry at 5 p.m

ACTV Vaporetto Line 1 to the San Samuele or Sant’Angelo stops, or ride Line 2 to San Toma, followed by a brief 5-minute walk through the local lanes.

A late-comer among the palaces on the Grand Canal of Venice and before the fall of the Venetian Republic Palazzo Grassi is a building in the Venetian Classical designed by Giorgio Massari, and rebuilt between 1748 and 1772.

The Palazzo has an academic classical style that is in contrast to the surrounding Byzantine Romanesque and Baroque Venetian palazzi. constructed of white marble, but lacks the lower mercantile openings typical of many Venetian patrician palaces.

The Grassi family - a wealthy and prominent Venetian merchant family, who amassed a massive fortune through trade, and after buying a noble title in the early 18th c hired architect Giorgio Massari to build their monumental final residence. The family sold the palazzo in 1840, with ownership changing many hands, including a purchased by the Fiat Group in 1983,

The French entrepreneur, Art Patron and Founder François Pinault is a billionaire businessman and the Chairman of Kering, the global luxury group that owns famous fashion houses like Gucci, Saint Laurent, and Balenciaga, who also leads his family's investment holding company, Groupe Artémis, which owns the auction house Christie's, Château Latour wine, and the talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

François-Henri Pinault established the art collection in 1999 to house his extensive private holdings of contemporary art, The art is publicly displayed across major exhibition venues. such as the Bourse de Commerce in Paris as well as at Punta della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi in Venice which he bought in 2005 for 29 million euros.

The remodeling of the building was assigned to the Japanese architect Tadao Ando and the Palazzo reopened to the public in April 2006. He manages the Pinault Collection of modern art and supports cultural and charitable foundations.

He has been married to the actress and producer Salma Hayek since 2009.

Exhibit of Michael Armitage - The Promise of Change

The British artist - Michael Armitage (1984) who was born in Nairobi Kenya. and began as an abstract painter. is one of the most original and acclaimed voices in contemporary painting. In 2022, the Royal Mint announced that he would design a new £1 coin for the United Kingdom, issued in 2023.

His major solo monographic exhibition titled "The Promise of Change" at the Palazzo Grassi, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais, of the Pinault Collection featured around 46 large-format oil paintings on lubugo bark cloth alongside roughly 100 studies and drawings surveying his past decade of work.

Among his motifs are real and imagined figures, drawn from contemporary African literature as well as Greek mythology, Paintings of traumatic chained Women and oppressed/raped black women, mean to explore sociopolitical unrest, migration, and East African histories, while he intends to bridge traditional East African visual culture with Western art history.

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In 2007, François Pinault acquired the Punta della Dogana to transform it into a contemporary art museum paired with the Palazzo Grassi

.The new center for contemporary art opened to the public in 2009

Punta deLa Dogana (The Customs point) - Lorena Simpson

Francois Pinault Collection - Lorena Simpson - "Third person"

Punta deLa Dogana

A historic triangular point and contemporary art museum houses the Pinault Collection

located where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal. at the tip of the Dorsoduro district, directly across the water from Piazza San Marco and adjacent to the Basilica of Santa Maria della Saluter

Vaporetto Line 1 or Line S to the Salute stop,

Open daily from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Built as a maritime customs house (Dogana da Mar) between 1677 and 1682 by architect Giuseppe Benoni.(1618–1684) and operated as a vital customs checkpoint from the 15th c onward to inspect and tax cargo entering the city.. The Punta della Dogana with its area of nearly 5,000 square meters was entirely renovated (2007 and 2009) by Japanese minimalist architect Tadao Ando, to host works from the François Pinault Foundation.

blending raw exposed brick with modern concrete

The Afro- American photographer and multimedia artist Lorena Simpson (1960) whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. is known for pioneering conceptual photo-text installations that explore identity, race, and gender.

She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations and became one of the first African-American women to exhibit in 1990 at the Venice Biennale.

Major exhibition -"Third person" is a solo exhibit dedicated to her in 2026, presented for the first time in Europe, on such a scale - a comprehensive panorama of her work featuring around 50 works spanning over two decades of her prominent painting practice, alongside archival collages, sculptures, video installations, and film series (such as Ice, Special Characters, and Earth and Sky)

The work explores the erosion and resurgence of collective memory, consciousness of Blackness, failures of representation, racial and gender identity narratives, bodies of Afro American women that were erased off history, a pile of magazines - Ebony and Jet that were catered to black women, and dissolving Arctic landscapes

On Second Floor of the museum - Paulo Nazoreth ֵ Algebra. Exhibit

The solo exhibition of contemporary Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth. is presented by the Pinault Collection and curated by Fernanda Brenner. It spans over two decades of his work which explores colonial cartography, systemic racism, migration, and the unhealed fractures of history, through the artist's ongoing, barefoot journeys for over 15 years across the Americas and Africa,

The journeys tread the same ground as his ancestors who were enslaved and stripped of their shoes as a mark of subjugation. The human's naked dirty feet cast a memory of slaves who were transported over seas,

Named after the Arabic word al-jabr ("to set broken bones") to reflect a methodology of historical repair, it is expressed through a salt line running through the galleries that gradually reveals the outline of a tumbeiro (a ghost slave ship), alongside works like Notícias de América..

More Parallel Exhibitions

Other Noticble Sites Worth A Visit

Santa Maria Formosa Square -Campo Santa Maria Formosa

Designed in 1492 by Renaissance architect Mauro Codussi in the Castello district as was erected The Church of the Purification of Mary Chiesa di Santa Maria Formosa in its midst, this charming square which is also doted with several impressive building, was also the neighborhood in whisch the famous 16th C beautiful cortisone-poetesses Veronica Franco traded.

Santa Maria Formosa Church Portrait of Veronica Franco The square

by Tintoretto, c. 1575

Lions on the Square

The unexpected contemporary bronze art installations on the Campo Santa Maria Formosa square of dark, rough-textured lion and tigress statues ( 4 monumental bronze figures—two lions and two lionesses + a massive bronze tiger nearby) are the creation of Italian sculptor Davide Rivalta

who is known for placing hyper-realistic and raw animal figures in urban public spaces.

Palazzo Malipiero Trevisan

The remarkable 3 floors symmetrical façade Renaissance palace on the south-eastern side of the square and separated from it by the Santa Maria Formosa canal , was the residence of the Malipiero family until the end of the 15th C when it passed, by marriage, to the Trevisan family.

As time passed, the palazzo was divided in several properties, and is still divided into several apartments.

Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa

( "Maniari Palace" )

Tucked away near Campo Santa Maria Formosa on Ramo Grimani (Castello 4858) featuring a unique water entrance at the junction of the San Severo and Santa Maria Formosa, is an historic Renaissance palace and state art museum. , Famed for its distinct Roman-inspired architecture and its magnificent sculpture gallery. The palace consistently bridges classical antiquity with modern art

It was originally a medieval house and later expanded in the 16th c by the influential Grimani family, including Doge Antonio Grimani and Patriarch Giovanni Grimani

Unlike typical Venetian Gothic palaces, it features a Roman-influenced design with a central courtyard, a monumental staircase, the Pantheon-inspired octagonal Tribuna, and elaborate Mannerist frescoes and stuccoes.

Acquired by the Italian State in 1981, restored, and opened to the public as a state museum,

Venice at Night

Musical Performance at Carlo Goldoni Theater

Right next to the hotel we stayed at, this charming old theater ofered on the night of Oct 13th only one operaic preformance of 2 great parodic musical peices.

One named

" The Telephone" an English-language comic opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti.

The other named

"Trouble in Tahiti" a one-act opera in seven scenes composed by Leonard Bernstein with an English libretto by the composerby

The theater is named after

C arlo Goldoni who is certainly one of the most emblematic characters of 18th C Venice, and whose name is linked to the history of Italian literature and beyond, in an indelible way.

Built in 1622 by the Vendramin family, the Carlo Goldoni Theater represents the oldest

among those surviving theater in Venice, still existing today, and is the fourth oldest overall. The present building dates from the 1720

It is located near Realto Bridge. Recently, the theater underwent careful restoration and renovation work, paying homage to its glorious history and bringing about significant improvements. It has been managed by the Teatro Stabile del Veneto since 1992.

C arlo Goldoni is certainly one of the most emblematic characters of 18th C Venice, who has linked his name to the history of Italian literature and beyond, in an indelible way.

Our own Reality Drama of One Act

David was pick-pocketed one evening, on the way back to the hotel by some guy

(about 40 yeas old) a part of whom after I saw the guy in action and screamed David caught and pull him down to the ground. Someone else came to help the salvaged phone was dumped onto the stairs, and the guy fled.

Food /Dinning

Pasticceria Rosa de Salva. - Sestiere di S. Marco, 950·(by San Marco square)

a historic family-run pastry shop and catering institution in Venice.

Great coffee/Pastries, sit down is possible

Marchini Time Cafe -Campo S. Luca, 4589

a popular local bakery and coffee bar in Venice known for its traditional pastries and quick stand by service, (near by Hotel La Comedia)