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74 VENICE AREA B Y AREA
To La Salute and San Marco
The view along the final stretch of the canal is one of the
finest – and most familiar – in Venice. Near the mouth rises the
magnificent church of La Salute with busy St Mark’s Basin beyond.
Locator Map
Palazzo Contarini Fasan, a tiny
15th-century palace with an
elegant façade, is popularly known
as the House of Desdemona from
The Palazzo Gritti-Pisani, where Shakespeare’s Othello.
Ruskin stayed in 1851, is better known
today as the luxurious five-star Hotel
Gritti Palace.
Santa Maria
del Giglio
Salute
The mock-Gothic
mansion, Ca’
Genovese, was built in
1892 in the place of
the second Gothic
cloister of the San
Gregorio monastery.
The deconsecrated Gothic
brick church of Abbazia San
Gregorio and a little cloister
are all that survive of what
was for centuries a powerful
Palazzo Salviati was the head- monastic centre. The church
quarters of the Salviati glass- is now used as a laboratory
producing company, hence the for the renovation of large-
glass mosaics on the façade. scale paintings.
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Eyewitness Travel LAYERS PRINTED:
Starsight template “UK” LAYER
(Source v2.4)
Date 15th January 2013
Size 125mm x 217mm
