Excursions, Saturday 23 March 2013, from 12.30pm
We are pleased to offer the following afternoon excursions.
 Please note that these tours will be viable only if a sufficient number enrols for each.
To enable us to make arrangements, please confirm your excursion when completing
and returning your conference registration form no later than 10 March 2013.
Please note that payment must be made in euros (not by cheque or credit card)
when you register in person at the opening of the conference in the Palazzo.
TEATRO OLIMPICO
 A visit to Vicenza, the city of Palladio, by private coach, leaving the Palazzo Pesaro
Papafava at 12.45 pm, travelling to Tronchetto by vaporetto, and departing from
there by coach at 1.30pm. We expect to arrive in Vicenza at 2.15-2.30. In Vicenza, we
will have a tour of the Teatro Olimpico, preceded by a short talk by Paolo Sanvito in
Vincenzo Scamozzi’s Odeon or the Ante-Odeon at the Teatro. The coach will bring us
back to Venice in the early evening after, we hope, a little time to view Vicenza’s
Palladian architecture.
 The famous Teatro Olimpico was designed by Andrea Palladio for the members of
the Olympic Academy and constructed by Scamozzi following the great architect’s
death. It housed a celebrated production of the Oedipus Tyrannos of Sophocles in
1585. The theatre auditorium and stage setting remain very much as they were in
the sixteenth century. A more wide-ranging talk on the Teatro by Paolo Sanvito is
included in the conference programme (Saturday 23rd March)
 Provisional cost: 50 euros. This includes:
The coach ticket
Packed lunch
Vaporetto tickets to and from the Palazzo Pesaro Papfava to Tronchetto
Entrance fee to the Teatro Olimpico
 This excursion is available to 40 people.
 Guided water taxi tour of the Grand Canal, leaving from the Palazzo at 3.00pm. This
offers an excellent, informative introduction to Venice for those new to the city,
lasting for about an hour.
Minimum number: 12
Cost: 30 euros
CASA GOLDONI
 Guided tour of the Casa di Carlo Goldoni and the Museo Fortuny
Leaving Palazzo Pesaro Papfava at 1.30pm and visiting both museums on foot and by
vaporetto.
Ca’ Goldoni Museum and Theatre Study Centre
Opened in 1953 after extensive restoration work, the fifteenth-century palace in which Carlo
Goldoni was born in 1707, and lived until 1719, today houses a theatre study centre and library/
museum dedicated to the Venetian playwright.
Eighteenth-century Venice is also evoked by contemporary paintings of the school of Pietro Longhi,
together with engravings illustrating Goldoni’s published works, and masks and costumes of the
commedia dell’arte.
In one room of the historic palace, formerly known as Ca’ Centanni, visitors will see a Venetian
marionette theatre, dating from around 1720, which once belonged to Ca’ Grimani ai Servi. Slightly
later in date are the fine marionettes displayed with it, which epitomise Venetian taste and
craftsmanship of the age of the Baroque, when marionette theatres enlivened many aristocratic
houses. Goldoni long remembered the puppet theatre set up in the loggia of his own childhood
home, seeing it as the means ‘through which destiny, wishing to involve me in theatre, started from
that moment to cast its seeds into my heart and imagination ’ (dedicatory epistle to Il ricco insidiato)
Further information about Ca’ Goldoni may be found by visiting the museum’s website,
carlogoldoni.visitmuve.it
Palazzo Fortuny
Built in the mid-fifteenth century by the Pesaro family at San Beneto, the palace housing the
Fortuny Museum is an outstanding example of Venetian architecture combining traditional structure
with original decorative elements and architectural solutions such as rooms of unusual depth.
In the Renaissance this palace was the venue for several festivals and performances, mainly
organised by the Immortali and Ortolani compagnie della calza, as described by Sanudo in his Diarii.
From 1720 to 1825 the building was rented to different tenants, including the Accademia degli Orfei
and the Società Apollinea. From 1898 on, the eccentric Mariano Fortuny Madrazo established his
studio in the attic of the palace which served as his home and the repository of his inventions in the
spheres of art, scenography, and fashion design.
At his death Fortuny bequeathed his residence to the City of Venice on condition that the venue was
to become a cultural centre hosting art exhibitions, as has happened since 1975. With its amazing
permanent collection of artworks, photographs, books and textiles, the Palazzo Fortuny museum is
open to the public during temporary exhibitions. Currently on show until 8th April 2013 is the exhibit
‘Fortuny and Wagner: Wagnerism in the Visual Arts of Italy’. More information about the museum
and the exhibition can be found by visiting the Palazzo Fortuny website: http://fortuny.visitmuve.it/
 Provisional Cost: 30 euros which includes:
2 vaporetto tickets (between the Palazzo and Casa Goldoni and back across the
Grand Canal to the Museo Fortuny)
a packed lunch at the Palazzo before setting out
entrance ticket to the Casa di Goldoni (full-price 5 euros; reduced price 3.50 euros)
entrance ticket to the Museo Fortuny (full price 10 euros; reduced price 8 euros)
Other places to visit on Saturday afternoon (details correct at time of writing)
MUSEUMS AND GALERIES
 The Palazzo Ducale (beside the Basilica di San Marco): the Doge’s Palace, seat of
government of the Venetian Republic.
Opening times: 8.30 -17.30 (last admissions 16.30)
Tickets: 16 euros full-price; 8 euros reduced price
 Museum Correr (Piazza San Marco – opposite end from the Basilica): Venice’s civic
museum with works by Carpaccio and Canova
Opening times: 10.00-17.00 (last admissions 16.00)
Tickets: 16 euros full-price; 8 euros reduced
You can also buy a Pass for the Museums of St Mark’s Square – the Doge’s Palace;
the Correr; the National Archaeological Museum and the Marciana Library; these
cost 16.50 euros full-price; 8.50 euros reduced. The pass lasts for 3 months so may be
useful if you are staying on in Venice after the conference, or arriving early.
 Ca’ Rezzonico (Dorsoduro): Venice’s museum of the 18th century
Opening times: 10.00 – 17.00 (last admissions 16.00)
Tickets: 8 euros full-price; 5.50 reduced
 Galleria dell’ Accademia: the world’s largest collection of Venetian art
Dorsoduro – beside the Accademia bridge
Opening times: 8.15 – 7.15 (last admissions 18.30)
Tickets: 9 euros full-price
NB Reduced price of 6 euros for European students 18-25 years.
European citizens over 65 have free entrance
 The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro) – one of
Europe’s most important modern art museums
Opening times: 10.00 – 18.00 (closed on Tuesdays)
Tickets: Adults - 14 euros
Over 65 - 11 euros
Students under 26 (with student ID) – 8 euros
Churches
 Basilica di San Marco
Opening times: 10.00 – 18.00
 Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Castello
Domenican church dating from the 13th century; contains works by the most
important Venetian painters and includes tombs of the Doges and important
monuments by leading sculptures such as the Lombardo family.
In the campo you can also see the façade of the Scuola Grande di San Marco and the
statue of Colleoni by Andrea Verrochio.
 The Palladian churches: San Giorgio Maggiore, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore; The
Redentore, Giudeca; San Franceso della Vigna, Castello ( façade by Palladio)
 Santa Maria della Salute, Dorsoduro
17th century, Baldassare Longhena. The Salute is quite close to the Peggy
Guggenheim Museum so the two can easily be combined in one visit.
 Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, San Polo
13th century Franciscan church with important works by Titian, Giovanni Bellini and
Donatello, as well as the tomb of Canova. Combine this with a visit to the nearby
Scuola Grande di San Rocco with extensive works by Tintoretto, commissioned to
decorate the interior in 1564.
San Rocco opening times: 9.30 -17.30 (last admissions 17.00)
Tickets: 8 euros full-price
Reduced price tickets of 6 euros for young people up to 26.
The island of Murano
 Home of Venetian glass and the 12th century Basilica dei Santi Maria e
Donato. Take vaporetto No 13 from the Fondamente Nuove (a short walk
from the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava). The vaporetto journey to Murano takes
about 15 minutes.