VENetIan Virtual Archive: libraries, history, documents, cartographic collections
Here you will find a really fascinating collection of ancient geographical maps preserved in the Marciana National Library and State Archive of Venice. The works made by cartographers and engineers at Serenissima's command, between the XVI and the XVIII Centuries.

The History from 452 up to 1797
Attila, Alboino, the Francs, the Fall of Constantinople, the Wars between the Republics, the Turkish Victories and the Napoleon Invasion.

The End of the Serenissima
On May 12th 1797 the last session of Venice' MAGGIOR CONSIGLIO was held...

The Saturday Bread (Challà)
Jewish cakes from venetian tradition. By Maria Agostini

A History through Medals
A huge Gallery of Medals referring to Venetian Republic History, to the Dogi and Dogaresses, the Procurators, the Clergy and the Warriors, to War and Peace, to Artists and Literates, and finally to Charity Religious Schools, Brotherwoods and all has to do with Venice' History.

Museums
from Palazzo Ducale to Palazzo Mocenigo, from Goldoni's+- House to the Torre dell'orologio (the Watch Tower) in the web-site of the Comune di Venezia

Places and Permanent Expositions
Addresses, together with a brief description, of all public places and city's monuments

1200 years of Italian Sculpture
A tour all around Museums, between sculptures and artists, and Venice' most beautiful Churches

Scenes of Life from the "Settecento Veneziano" (the Eighteenth Century in Venice)
The Paintings of Pietro Longhi, born in Venice in 1702.

Between The Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries
Venice and Laguna in the artworks of Umberto Moggioli and other maestri from Ca' Pesaro: Boccioni, Rossi, Garbari, Semeghini.

Venetian rarities
Pictures from Libreria Editrice FILIPPI: how was looking Piazza san Marco like in 1880 ?

BALNEA.museum
The Civiltà Balneare (the Seaside's Culture) Virtual Museum, a site completely dedicated to the seaside tourism and the "sea-invention"

"Par non desmentegar Venezia" (for not forgettin' Venice)
The transformations of Venice's appearance in the pictures of a venetian photographer: Gianni Rizzo

A trip on a gondola or on a vaporetto .
The gondoliere's hour, as the psycoanalist's one, lasts 50 minutes. The tariff is fixed, and you will find it hard to lower it. All gondolieres speak a little of English and have a slight knowledge of Venice' art and history. But do not expect them to sing!

Actv: urban sea-transport network: timetables and itineraries
It was in 1881 that a regular liner with a mechanical propulsion vessels started in Venice. Its origin was French and for the first time people could admire the ''VAPORETTO'' sailing along the CANAL GRANDE.

All you wished to know about Venice's vessels.
The most of tourists, visiting Venice in a hurry, believe that all vessels crossing the channels are gondolas. On the contrary, there is a large variety of vessels.

Great personalities

Canaletto (artist, 1697-1768)
http://ftp.upenn.edu/ARG/candis.html
http://www.excelsiordirect.com/canalett.htm
http://artgardens.com/Artists/canaletto.htm

Vittore Carpaccio (artist, 1465 circa-1526)
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/carpacci/index.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/cgfa/carpaccio/index.html

G. Battista Tiepolo (artist, 1696-1770)
http://nautilus.ashmm.com/9609it/arte/arte02.htm
http://www.venice-it.com/leisure.shtml

Tintoretto (artist, 1518-1594)
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/tintoretto
http://www.wisc.edu/arth/ah202/jmd/tintoretto.html
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mharden/artchive/ftptoc/

Marco Polo (explorer 1254-1324)
http://koulu1.kotka.fi/aa/ait/aaait6a/historia/polo/polo.html
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4034/polo.html

Carlo Goldoni (playwright, 1707-1793)
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~thtr/98season/servant/Goldoni.htm
http://www.panservice.it/mirror/liberliber/biblioteca/biografie/

Daniele Manin (patriot, 1804-1857)
http://www.sunrise.it/arte/giacomelli/ilpopolo.htm
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/rz/venrev.htm

Antonio Vivaldi (musician, 1678-1742)
http://www.quicknet.se/ftp/dialup/q-112005/vivaldi.htm
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Musician/Vivaldi.html

Giovanni Bellini called `il Giambellino (1430-1516)
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/bio/b/bellini/giovanni/biograph.html
http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/bellalleg21.html

Giangiacomo Casanova (adventurer, 1725-1798)
http://arte.digiland.it/1362/Casanova/index.htm
http://www.comune.venezia.it/org_citta.asp
http://www.artsystem.it/moebiusinfinito/

The richest family in Venice in the Fifteenth century
And many other great families of the Middle Ages

The Corner Family and Tiepolo's work in Venice
The Corner, or Cornaro, Family, was one of the first and enduring promoters of Tiepolo in Venice... in this web-site you will find information, together with a brief historical introduction, on where to see the artist's works.