The Monumento a Pietro Paleocapa, the Italian scientist, engineer, and politician, is the work of the sculptor Luigi Ferrari, and has a prominent place in the Giardini Papadopoli. A plaque marks the house where the Italian poet and essayist, Diego Valeri, lived.  Valeri fell in love with this city, and would go on to write…

Looking at the tiny heads that adorned the facade of the building pictured above, I could not help but wonder if they were portraits of the family that lived there. The Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista is a confraternity building that was founded in the 13th century, and is one of the five Scuole…

As we made our way to the Grand Canal, we suddenly discovered that we were facing the Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia, Venice’s main train station and, in fact, the station by which we had arrived in the city.  The station dates from 1860, and was named after the Convento and Chiesa di Santa Lucia,…

We decided to go into the Chiesa di San Giacomo dall’Orio.  The church is part of the Chorus Association, which maintains and preserves some of the historic churches of Venice.  At the time of our visit, there were sixteen churches that were part of the Association.  One can either pay a single admission price to…