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 The apartment Laguna is located only 10 minutes from the swimming pool of Sacca Fisola and only 10 minutes walking from the beautiful and famous restaurant "Cipriani" and "Los Murales". In the nearby there are many pubs and bar and the famous cake shop "Harry's Dolci". |
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Laguna apartment is locatend in the famous and Beautiful Giudecca Island.
Giudecca is a quiet and peaceful island located opposite to Venice. St. Mark's Square can be reached in only ten m. with water bus "Vaporetto". The area is full of charming cafés, restaurants and shops.
The main place of interest situated on the island is the Church of Redentore, which was built in the 16th century by Palladio in thanksgiving for the end of a terrible epidemic. Every year on the 3rd Sunday of July the inhabitants celebrate this event with fireworks and music and it is on most spectacular feasts you can admire in Venice.
Giudecca is only a short gondola ride from San Marco and in the 18th century was Venice's "garden of delights".
Alongside noble residences (such as Palazzo Vendramin, Palazzo Dandolo, Palazzo Barbaro Nani) there were modest "pavilions" for shorter stays, called "casini". Today the Giudecca is much changed, but some of the gardens which were the favourite summer retreats of the Venetian noble families still exist.
There were convents (such as Zitelle and le Convertite), Academies, like the Academy of Philosophy, the Convito dei Nobili and, above all, parks, orchards and vineyards where the city dwellers, normally confined to narrow alleys and small courtyards, could enjoy fresh air and open spaces, as well as the then famous "vin salso", called in this way because of its characteristic salty after-taste, due to the vicinity of the lagoon.
Famous amongst the sites of interest on the Giudecca are: Palladio's Church of Redentore. The Redentore Church was founded to call upon the Redeemer to deliver the city of Venice from a serious outbreak of the plague from 1575-1576. The church is sited on the island of the Giudecca, somewhat remote from the heart of Venice, but in a position where it is clearly visible from the Piazetta di San Marco. The Venetian Senate promised that every year the Doge would cross the Canale della Giudecca on a bridge of boats to give homage to Christ the Redeemer, and the church massing and facade were designed as the culminating point of this annual procession), built in thanks giving for the end of the plague in the 16th Century and the centre of the annual Redentore Feast Day; and the Church if Santa Maria della Presentazione on the Zitelle. |
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