Rialto Bridge at night |
Rialto Bridge (1591) over the Grand Canal illuminated at night |
Ponte di Rialto, Canal Grande, Venezia |
View SW of the Grand Canal at night from the Rialto Bridge |
Ponte dell'Academia across the Grand Canal, a 1985 replacement of a 1930s wooden bridge |
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute with the morning sun from Ponte dell'Academia |
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute with the morning sun from Ponte dell'Academia |
Sun shining on the Grand Canal with a sillhouette of the scaffolding-encrused dome of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute |
Sun shining on the Grand Canal with a sillhouette of the scaffolding-encrused dome of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute |
View of the Grand Canal NW from the Ponte dell'Academia, Venice |
View of the Grand Canal NW from the Ponte dell'Academia, Venice |
On a ACTV Water Bus (vaporetto) sailing up the Grand Canal from Ponte dell'Academia towards Ponte di Rialto, early morning |
Palazzo Querini alla Carità (N.A. 1051) with part of Palazzo Mocenigo Gambara to the right at N.A. 1052, Grand Canal |
Palazzi Contarini degli Scrigni on the Grand Canal at Dorsoduro 1057 |
Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore along the Grand Canal at Dorsoduro 1261,1262 |
Grand Canal passing through the Dorsoduro district of Venice |
Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore along the Grand Canal, Gothic, 15th Century |
Venetian Renaissance statue on the façade of the Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore |
Grand Canal with the tower of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (i Frari) |
Ca'Rezzonico, Venetian palazzo with a large white marble façade on the Grand Canal, today a museum of 18th C. Venice |
Approaching the Palazzo Foscari on the Grand Canal |
Ca' Foscari, a Venitian Palazzo on the Grand Canal built ca 1452 by Doge Francesco Foscari |
Palazzo Foscari on the Volta bend in the Grand Canal with Palazzo Giustinian to the left in the Dorsoduro district |
Palazzo Balbi, 16th century palace on the Grand Canal currently serving as seat of the Government of Veneto |
Palazzo Balbi and the adjacent Palazzo Caotorta-Angaran |
A San Tomà gondola ferries passengers across the Grand Canal in Venice |
Goldolas tied up in front of Palazzo Giustinian Persico, to the right of Rio di Tomà |
Palazzo Garzoni and Palazzo Pisani Moretta (15th C. Gothic) on the Grand Canal between Rio di Tomà and Rio di San Polo |
Palazzo Pisani Moretta (15th C. Gothic) on the Grand Canal, Venice |
Palazzo Pisani Moretta and to the right, Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza (16th C.) |
Grand Canal looking west from Rio di San Polo to Palazzo Balbi |
Grand Canal with Palazzo Pisani Moretta |
Palazzo Bernardo (15th C. Gothic) and to the left, a partial view of Palazzo Querini Dubois |
Palazzo Donà della Madoneta, Grand Canal |
The Rialto Bridge comes into sight |
Casa Pasquato and the adjacent Hotel Ovidius along the touristy Fondamenta del Vin |
Riva del Vin on the right bank of the Grand Canal below the Rialto Bridge |
Riva del Vin on the right bank of the Grand Canal below the Rialto Bridge |
Hotel Marconi, Fondamenta del Vin, Venice |
Palazzo dei Dieci Savi at the foot of fhe Rialto Bridge |
Fabbriche Veccie di Rialto and then Fabbriche Nuove di Rialto |
A cargo boat in front of the Fabbriche Nuove di Rialto as it nears the Rialto Bridge |
Actv - Venice public water bus known as a Vaporetto |
Young Venetian gondalier in the traditional striped shirt |
The cute Ca' Favretto on the Grand Canal of Venice, now the Residenza d'Epoca Casa Favretto San Cassiano Hotel |
Palazzo Corner della Regina, Palazzo Correggio and Casa Pesaro along the Grand Canal west of the Rialto Bridge |
Ca' Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna & Museo d'Arte Orientale |
Ca' Pesaro, mid-17th C. baroque marble palazzo on the Grand Canal |
Statue of San Sebastian on the façade of Chiesa San Stae, Venice (Grand Canal) |
Young man polishing a Venetian gondola |
Gondola station near the Rialto Bridge along the Riva del Vin |
Gondola with the Rialto Bridge |
Gondola with the Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto) Venice |
Gondola with the Rialto Bridge |
Hotel Marconi, Riva del Vin, near the Rialto Bridge...and I don't know what's up with the crocodile |
Barber-striped poles for tying up gondolas in front of the Rialto Bridge |
Rialto Bridge and Grand Canal, Venice |
Gondola rowing under the Rialto Bridge, Venice |
Rialto Bridge (1591) - Ponte di Rialto - the 5th bridge to stand here since 1181 (collapses in 1444 and 1524) |
Riva del Vin and the Grand Canal, Venice |
The Rialto Bridge has had small shop stalls since the 15th Century |
Rialto Bridge, Venice |
Wooden motorboat that wouldn't look out of place in a James Bond movie, Venice |
Riva del Vin from the base of the Rialto Brdige, Venice |
Gondolas tied up along the Riva del Vin seen from the Rialto Bridge |
Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi (Renaissance, 16th C.) and the Grand Canal seen from the Rialto Bridge |
Looking northwest from the Rialto Bridge along the left bank of the Grand Canal with the Campanile of Santi Apostoli |
Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi and Grand Canal from the Rialto Bridge |
Gondola on the Grand Canal in front of the 16th C. Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi |
Venetian Gondolier |
Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi and Grand Canal from the Rialto Bridge |
A flotilla of gondalas on the Grand Canal seen from the Rialto Bridge |
Venetian gondoliers on the Grand Canal |
Palazzo Dei Camerlenghi next to the Rialto Bridge, Venice |
Venetian Customs House (1690) at the entrance to the Grand Canal, Dogana del Mar, Punta della Dogana |
Two bronze Atlases supporting a globe with Fortuna acting as a weathervane, Old Customs House, Punta della Dogana |
Late afternoon on the Grand Canal of Venice - the two Palazzi Barbaro (1425 and 1694) |
The Baroque Palazzo Barbaro of 1694 (closer to the Ponte dell'Academia) |
Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti (Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti) Canal Grande, Venezia |
Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti from a vaporetto sailing under the Ponte dell'Academia |
Gondola on the Grand Canal with the domes of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute |
Venetian Gondola on the Grand Canal in front of the Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti with the domes of Santa Maria della Salute |
Grand Canal, Venice |
Grand Canal, Venice |
The Grand Canal after its first big loop back to the east after Ponte dell'Academia headed towards Rialto |
Grand Canal in the late afternoon from Palazzo Garzoni eastward to Palazzo Querini Benzon |
Palazzo Garzoni on the left bank of the Grand Canal in the late afternoon |
15th C. Palazzo Garzoni, Grand Canal next to Rio di Ca'Garzoni |
Casa Barocci on the Grand Canal by the Sant'Angelo vaporetto station |
The large 16th C. Renaissance Palazzo Grimani di San Luca dwarfing the other palazzi |
Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, Palazzo Corner Contarini dei Cavalli, Palazzo Tron Memmo |
Palazzo Corner Contarini dei Cavalli and Palazzo Tron Memmo |
Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, Grand Canal, Venice |
Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, Grand Canal, Venice |
Shadows beginning to affect the façades along the Grand Canal as it nears Rialto |
12-13th C Palazzo Corner Loredan and Palazzo Dandolo Farsetti, together the seat of the Venice Municipal Government, Grand Canal |
Palazzo Corner Martinengo, Palazzo Corner Valmarana, and on the right-16th C. Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, the Appellate Court |
Sidewalks directly along the Grand Canal, Riva del Ferro near Rialto |
Palazzo Bembo, 15th C. Gothic palace along the San Marco side of the Grand Canal near Rialto |
The Hotel Rialto with the tower that is on Salizada Pio X near the east end of the Rialto Bridge |
Chiesa di San Simeon Piccolo from the Santa Lucia Station embankment |
Meeting Point - Bistrot Santa Lucia |
With Max on the Grand Canal, Venice |
Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro |
Selfie Time, Ca' D'Oro Vaporetto dock |
Grand Canal looking west from the Ca' d'Oro |
European Cultural Centre (ECC) - Palazzo Michiel |
Grand Canal between Ca' d'Oro and Rialto Mercato |
Campo Erberia - Rialto Mercato |
Gondola in front of the Rialto Bridge, Venice |
Gondola in front of the Rialto Bridge, Venice |
Gondola in front of the Rialto Bridge, Venice |
Grand Canal - Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Sestiere San Polo |
Grand Canal - Palazzo Querini Dubois, Sestiere San Polo |
Grand Canal - Calle del Traghetto/Rio de S. Toma, Sestiere San Polo |
Grand Canal - Palazzo Balbi |
Grand Canal - Università Ca' Foscari |
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano |
Grand Canal - Hotel Palazzo Stern |
Grand Canal - mosaic covered Palazzo Barbarigo |
1886 Murano glass mosaics, Palazzo Barbarigo, Venice |
1886 Murano glass mosaics, Palazzo Barbarigo, Venice |
The end of the Grand Canal, Punta della Dogana, Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute |
The end of the Grand Canal, Punta della Dogana, Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute |
Grand Canal under cloudy skies - Palazzo Flangini |