Venice: Palazzo Ducale

It is simply impossible to visit Venice and skip the Palazzo Ducale. The British popular historian John Julius Norwich, an authority on the history of the Serenissima, rightly called the Doge’s Palace “the greatest secular Gothic building in the world”.[1] The Gothic pointed arches of Istrian stone, the elegant colonnades…

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Venice: Madonna dell’Orto

Question: why do we find a statue of Saint Christopher with the young Christ on his shoulders above the entrance of the Madonna dell’Orto? Answer: because the church was initially dedicated to Saint Christopher. Not far from here travellers left for the islands in the lagoon, such as Murano, Burano…

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Venetië: Palazzo Ducale

Het is simpelweg onmogelijk om Venetië te bezoeken en het Palazzo Ducale over te slaan. De Britse populair historicus John Julius Norwich, een autoriteit op het gebied van de geschiedenis van de Serenissima, noemde het dogepaleis terecht “the greatest secular Gothic building in the world”.[1] De gotische puntbogen van Istrische…

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