On the last Thursday of the trip, we traveled out to the island of Torcello with our coworkers to visit the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta. We took a long boat ride to the island, stopping first in Murano to switch boat lines. The travel time was around 45 minutes, Read more…
This post has some of our favorite spots to eat in the city, from cafes in the morning to sit-down restaurants in the evening. One of our favorite spots to get pizza was Pizzeria Da Zorma along the Rio Della Misericordia, the canal that runs close to our initial housing. Read more…
We took a short trip to the island of Murano on Sunday, getting delicious food, seeing the amazing sights, and shopping at tons of glass studios and shops. We walked and took a short boat ride (~30 minutes from when we left our housing to setting foot on Murano) to Read more…
This is the second part of our trip to Padua: The Scuola Del Santo. After the Gattamelata statue, we visited the Scoletta, the current seat of the Archconfraternity of Saint Anthony of Padua. This historic building is filled with famous artworks, sprawling gardens, meeting rooms, and altars. After buying tickets Read more…
This is the first part of our trip to Padua: the Gattamelata statue. After taking a short, 30-minute train to Padua, we walked from the train station to the Santo (short for Basilica of Saint Anthony) and joined a small tour of Donatello’s famous bronze equestrian statue of Gattamelata. The Read more…
We decided to take a train down to Bologna to eat some authentic food and watch the second stage of the Tour de France! Our train left at 8:40 am and was 30 euros per round trip ticket. The train took about two hours and we beelined for the competition Read more…
We were invited to join a group of American students from the Pratt Institute on a visit to the “Room of the Four Doors” in the Doge’s Palace. We met in Saint Mark’s Square to get tour badges, allowing us to bypass the line for the exhibit and enter through Read more…
We visited the Scuola Dalmata, a confraternal organization house containing many famous Carpaccio paintings and a historic, carved-stone facade. We got a small tour of the storage area next to the main room which served as a temporary painting conservation workshop. When speaking with the conservator at work there, we Read more…
We visited the conservation of Tintoretto’s oil on canvas painting “Crucifixion” in the Grande Scuola di San Rocco, climbing up into the scaffolding and seeing the painting up close. The painting stretches from floor to ceiling, an enormous 17.5 feet wide and 40 feet tall. The entire painted surface had Read more…
We were lucky to be included in a tour of the Church of Saint Sebastian, a gorgeous and historic church in Venice’s main city. Several artists, including Titian, Scarpagianino, and Paolo Veronese, decorate this church with frescos that line the walls and paintings on panels and cover the ceiling. We Read more…