Which attractions are open in Venice on a Sunday morning?
 

It looks like Accademia is open at 8:15 (I just checked the website).

I'm planning on these other attractions:

San Zaccaria
Frari
Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Does someone know if these are also open in the morning? It'll be convenient to see #2 and #3 after Accademia.

I also want to see San Marco, but I believe it opens at 2 on Sundays. I've not checked and I'll make a reservation (alata.it).

No time for Doge's Palace.

Thanks!

I'm pretty sure the Frari is closed on Sunday mornings, might reopen in the p.m. (1pm or so)

Scuola San Rocco opens every day around 10 am or so

try www.aguestinvenice.com

nice website to preview the Tintorettos at San Rocco
and the Titian in the Frari, and lots more

http://www.wga.hu/index.html


also

http://www.cheapvenice.com/scuola-grande-san-rocco.htm

Thanks.

That website says Frari is open at 1 and San Rocco is open at 9.

A bit of a pain given my limited time -- I don't really want to waste any time going to that area twice.

I guess I'll have to think about this more.

Thanks -- the web gallery is quite good and has a lot of useful stuff.

I doubt that I'll spend very much time in San Rocco though (I did go during my first trip). I'll probably just take a closer look at "Crucifixion," which I think is probably the most important piece there (I've not really researched it yet).

No time to see everything.

The Frari Titian altarpiece is supposedly one of the largest pieces Titian ever did. I guess there're two, but the Assumption of the Virgin is the big one, if I recall.

I think there's also a Bellini in Frari.

(Yes, I'll bring a guidebook.)

There are wonderful Bellinis in the Correr Museum on the Piazza (small museum, excellent) and in the Zanipolo Church, the latter is open on Sundays only at 3pm.

On a different topic --

I didn't want to start a new thread, but I figured that you might know, elaine.

Do you know if the 24h vaporetto pass covers the boat trip to San Lazzaro (Armenian cemetery)?

http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/venice/re_islands.htm

The link I cited says that the boat trip is covered by a multi-day pass.

I don't think that I've the time for this really, but I'm intrigued by the Eliasson installation (part of the Biennale):

http://contessanally.blogspot.com/20...f-t-b-a21.html

I can't see why San Lazzaro wouldn't be included on the pass, it's on vaporetto route # 20, but that runs VERY infrequently, only once or twice a day I think, so you should check the schedule

It occurs to me that if a Biennale exhibit is there, maybe the boat runs more frequently while that's on

We wanted to see that while we were in Venice, but our Biennale map said there was no public boat service.

P.S. We assumed you were meant to view it from a distance but didn't work out where from.

I'm confused -- wouldn't the "pavillion" be on the island itself?

I think there's only one boat a day at 3:10 pm (as mentioned by both the SlowTrav link and the link I posted) to the island.

This is the NYT take on the Eliasson installation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/16/ar...gn/16kimm.html

"Olafur Eliasson (half-Danish, half-Icelandic) has devised a pavilion, with views onto the water and ramps leading into a blackened room with a thin beam of light, like a horizon line, 360 degrees around, its intensity and color slowly shifting. The light is a Venetian spring day condensed into 14 minutes. A visitor's senses adjust to the changes, bringing body and sight slowly into equilibrium."

It's irresistible, but it'll take away two hours of my sightseeing schedule.

I do want to try to see it, I mean -- even if it'll take away two hours.

When were you there, caroline? Is there anything in the Biennale you'd recommend? I'm taking a look very quickly at the articles here:

http://annotatedtimes.blogrunner.com...0AA0103A82F40/

I'm glad that someone has done some homework for me.

By the way, this is a brochure for all the listings on the Biennale events that I just found:

http://artupdate.com/pdf/venice.pdf

Does someone know where the Stan Stae Church is? It's where the Swiss Pavilion is located. Kimmelman likes that installation too.

Hi
it's not far from Ca' Pesaro

http://www.jssgallery.org/Essay/Veni...h/San_Stae.htm

Great, thanks elaine!

sorry, sestiere is San Polo

Thanks -- I'll take a look at a map when I get home. You've given me enough info to look for it.

I replied with some Biennale recommendations on your other thread. I was there 18-25 June. I also recommend Pipilotti Rist at San Stae.

P.S. Shame we didn't find out how to visit the Olafur Eliasson installation. Oh well, in with a week we couldn't do everything ! (Didn't even get round all of the Giardini.)

Thanks, caroline. Of course I'm thinking that I can go to Arsenale and Giardini in two hours (ha!).

I skimmed a couple of reviews on the Biennale last night. Apparently this year's installation at Arsenale is smaller than usual and there's a dearth of actual painting (but abundance of video installations). The Guardian critic (?) was especially scathing re the use of Venice as a setting for contemporary art, writing to the effect that there's just no comparison between it and the works by the Old Masters.

I find this all pretty interesting.

You can always fly to Venice again to catch the Eliasson installation. You live much closer, after all, and have access to low-cost carriers.

:-)

I took a look at #20 (actv.it) again -- and it actually runs more frequently that one would think.

Not sure why the 3:10 boat is the recommended boat, but maybe that's the one that leads to a guided tour.

Because of the way the return boat trips are scheduled, it looks like one needs to spend at least an hour on the island.

Here's another link on San Lazarro:

http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/...gli_armeni.htm


The boat ride takes 15 minutes each way. But since the return is pretty infrequent it looks like one must prepare to spend at least an hour on San Lazzaro (no matter which boat is taken from San Zaccaria).

Thanks for the extra info, 111op - your research is more thorough than mine ! I didn't actually hear of this installation until we got there & then saw it listed on the biennale handouts, but I jumped to the conclusion it was on a deserted island, and as I said before, it must just be meant for viewing from a distance. I now see I was wrong and am sorry we missed it - it sounds beautiful. Did you see Eliasson's installation at Tate Modern ?

Unfortunately it's not as quick or cheap for us to get to Italy as you might think - Scotland is not London. We nearly always have to get two flights anywhere, and sometimes 3 (for Sicily). For our June trip, we left home at 5am for a 6.30am flight to Heathrow, flew out of Heathrow at 11.30am and arrived at Venice airport 2.55pm local time. By the time we arrived at our hotel it must have been between 5 & 6pm; so basically it still takes a full day to get there & the same to get back. I booked well in advance & our flights out were £91.70 per person *one way* - headline price £55 + £36.70 taxes, charges, etc. Pretty good but not the £9 fare that people imagine we can get.

(It was one way because we subsequently flew VCE-NAP - week on Amalfi Coast -NAP-LHR - visit relatives - & SOU-EDI.)

You can't see everything, caroline.

I did see the Eliasson installation at Turbine Hall last February (I was passing through London for Valentine's Day). Actually I was in Tate Modern for about 15-20 minutes. I think it was my last stop before I went to Heathrow to catch my flight.

It's interesting how the planning had turned out. I had heard about the island and the Armenian cemetery a month ago, but I wasn't planning to go (given a day in Venice, it just didn't seem possible). Then I learned about the Eliasson installation, so now I'm thinking of going.

I should check again to make sure that it's really on the island.

Anyway, here's what I've gathered about the Biennale -- which I've written about on my blog:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L11D26EAB

It may be of interest.

The airfare to Venice is surprisingly pricey, I must say.

111op, did you get to the Eliasson installation ? I've met a few people now who've been to Venice this year but none of them visited it.

Did you catch the Pipilotti Rist at San Stae ? I just heard last week that it had closed early as the church authorities weren't happy with the subject. But it is coming to London.

Hi caroline, yes, I made it to both. Thanks for asking.

I wrote about the Biennale here (check the last paragraph for the Eliasson installation).

http://tinyurl.com/dyg34

To be honest, I was a little disappointed in it, but then, I'm sure that I'll be in Venice again at one point, so it was probably better for me to spend my time on seeing things that could only be seen during that trip.

The Rist installation I thought was quite interesting. But my favorite of the Biennale (as you can see from the blog) is definitely the Vezzoli trailer.

The New York Times critic (I think that was Kimmelman) said that the Rist installation has echoes of Cranach on acid. Quite an apt and clever description.

Just in case anyone wants to read the entire trip report, it's here:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q1B1422CB

There was a thread I started earlier, but I decided it's probably best not to top it.

Thanks.

Thanks 111op. I think I would still have liked to have gone to the Eliasson if I'd realised I could. Doesn't sound like you caught the singing & dancing guards in the German pavilion ? :-) As you say, though, you can't see everything : we spent an entire day at the Giardini & didn't get round all the pavilions.

I can't believe how much you packed into your brief stay !!

Yes, caroline, I missed the German pavilion.

Well, as you say, can't see everything! Of course it'd have been nice for you to see the Eliasson installation, but I think that you probably spent your 2-3 hours better somewhere else (the vaporetto logistics for San Lazzaro are a bit complicated, as you read).

I'm just as amazed that I went to about 25 museums/churches/sights in a 3.5-day period. :-)

I did miss San Marco in Venice. Next trip, I guess.

Two friends called me the "bullet train traveler." :-)

I reckon you went to more places in Venice than we did in a week :-)

I don't know. I was a little too slow when I got to Venice. :-) To some extent, though, it was the stupid Regata Storica that slowed me down. :-)

Did you write a report? I'm curious to take a look quickly if you did. Thanks.

No, sorry, I never wrote a report. We had a week elsewhere after Venice & by the time I got home, I couldn't have remembered everything we did in Venice ! Presumably you must keep a journal as you go along, do you ? I did once (after I got given a blank journal for Xmas), & wish I'd kept it up.

No, I don't, actually. I find that too much work (I'm supposed to be on vacation after all).

As the blog allows for ever increasingly detailed reports (easy to self indulge), I actually feel a bit of pressure to remember things. :-) I do sometimes scribble down a few things down on throwaway brochures, but I write nearly everything from memory.