Places to visit in Veneto, Italy
21 places to visit in Veneto, Italy, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Basilica of Saint Anthony, Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Veneto volume.
7 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 13 Famous places to visit · 1 Hidden gem
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Veneto (7)
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Basilica of Saint Anthony
The great pilgrimage church of Padua, built over the tomb of Saint Anthony and known locally simply as Il Santo. Its domes and minaret-like towers mix Byzantine and Gothic styles, and the high altar holds bronzes by Donatello.
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Doge's Palace
The Venetian Gothic palace that housed the Doge, the councils and even the prisons of the Republic of Venice. First built in 810 and rebuilt from 1340, its pink and white facade rests on open arcades above the waterfront, and it has been a museum since 1923.
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Piazza San Marco
The principal square of Venice, known to Venetians simply as la Piazza, with the Basilica, the Campanile and the Doge's Palace at its edges. Its smaller extension, the Piazzetta, opens onto the lagoon between two columns topped by the city's lion and its old patron saint.
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Santa Maria della Salute
An octagonal Baroque church under a great white dome, standing at the point where the Grand Canal meets the San Marco basin. Venetians call it simply La Salute, and it was built in the 17th century by Baldassare Longhena as a votive offering to the Virgin.
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Scrovegni Chapel
A small chapel in Padua whose walls are covered from floor to vaulted blue ceiling in frescoes by Giotto, painted in the early 14th century. Visitors go in small groups through a climate-controlled room, and the cycle is counted among the founding works of Western painting.
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St Mark's Basilica
The cathedral of Venice, built to hold the relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist, the city's patron. Its five domes and Byzantine plan look east to Constantinople, and the interior is covered in gold-ground mosaics that give it the old nickname Church of Gold.
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Verona Arena
A Roman amphitheatre in the centre of Verona and one of the best preserved anywhere, thanks to restoration that began in the 16th century. It is still in use, and each summer its stone tiers fill for a season of open-air opera.
Famous places to visit in Veneto (13)
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Bridge of Sighs
A small enclosed bridge of white limestone linking the Doge's Palace to the New Prison across the Rio di Palazzo. Its name is said to come from prisoners sighing at their last look at Venice through its stone-barred windows.
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Burano
A fishing island at the northern end of the Venetian lagoon, near Torcello, where every house along the canals is painted a different bright colour. It is also known for its lace, worked by hand for centuries.
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Gallerie dell'Accademia
The great gallery of Venetian painting before the 19th century, housed in a former confraternity, church and convent on the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro. It holds work by Bellini, Titian and Tintoretto, and owns Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, shown only for a few weeks every six years.
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Gardaland
Italy's best known amusement park, opened in 1975 beside Lake Garda in the province of Verona. The resort now includes a Sea Life aquarium, a Legoland water park and three themed hotels around the roller coasters of the main park.
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Grand Canal
The largest channel in Venice, curving through the city in a backward S and serving as its main street for boats. It is lined with palaces from every century of the Republic, and the vaporetto ride along it is the classic first view of the city.
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Lake Sorapis
A small mountain lake at 1,925 metres in the Sorapiss group of the Dolomites, about 12 km from Cortina d'Ampezzo. It is reached only on foot, and its milky turquoise water under the pale cliffs is the reward at the end of the walk.
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Murano
A cluster of small islands joined by bridges, about 1.5 km north of Venice across the lagoon. It has been famous for glassmaking for centuries, and its canals are lined with furnaces and showrooms where you can watch glass being blown.
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The modern art collection of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim, shown in the low, unfinished 18th-century palace on the Grand Canal where she lived for three decades. She first opened it to the public in 1951, and it now holds works by Picasso, Pollock, Ernst and Magritte.
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Rialto Bridge
The oldest of the four bridges over the Grand Canal, linking the San Marco and San Polo districts. A pontoon bridge first crossed here in 1173, and the present stone arch carries two rows of shops, with the Rialto market just beyond.
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San Giorgio Maggiore
A small island across the water from St Mark's Square, east of the Giudecca, crowned by Palladio's white church and its bell tower. It is one of the most painted views in Venice, Monet among the painters, and the campanile gives a fine view back over the city.
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St Mark's Campanile
The bell tower of St Mark's Basilica, 98.6 metres high and the tallest structure in Venice, which locals call el paròn de casa, the master of the house. The present tower is a faithful rebuild finished in 1912, and its belfry looks over the whole lagoon.
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Teatro La Fenice
The opera house of Venice, whose name means the phoenix. In the 19th century it saw the premieres of works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi, among them Rigoletto and La Traviata, and its gilded horseshoe of boxes is still in use.
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Tre Cime di Lavaredo
Three sheer, battlement-like towers of rock in the Sexten Dolomites, among the best known mountain shapes in the Alps. A loop path runs right round their base, and from the north side the three faces line up side by side.
Hidden gems in Veneto (1)
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Piazza delle Erbe
A long square in the heart of Verona that was once the town's Roman forum. Market stalls under white umbrellas still fill its centre, surrounded by frescoed houses, a marble fountain and the Lamberti tower.
Collecting in Veneto
What are the best places to visit in Veneto?
LOQAH lists 21 places in Veneto. The best known include Basilica of Saint Anthony, Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco, Santa Maria della Salute and Scrovegni Chapel. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Veneto?
21, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Veneto?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Veneto before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Veneto and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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