Venice Places to Visit

San Marco is the touristic heart of Venice. It brings together emblematic sites such as St. Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) and the Bridge of Sighs. The area is often busy, and restaurants in and around St. Mark's Square offer multilingual menus for international visitors. The surrounding streets are full of lively snack bars, chic fashion boutiques and shops selling glassware and souvenirs. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a collection of artwork collected during her lifetime by the collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979). This collection is exhibited in Venice, in the Venier dei Leoni Palace on the Grand Canal, where Peggy Guggenheim lived for the last thirty years of her life and which belonged to the collector Marcell Nemes, who restored it. Peggy donated her collection and home to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in the mid-1970s. The museum opened in 1980 after her death in 1979, and Peggy Guggenheim is buried there. The collection is managed by an executive committee chaired by David Gallagher1, an offshoot of the advisory committee, chaired since June 2013 by Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg. The Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto ou Pont du Rialto) is one of four bridges that cross the Grand Canal in Venice, along with the Academy Bridge (Ponte dell'Accademia), the Discalced Bridge (Ponte degli Scalzi) and the brand new Constitution Bridge (Ponte della Costituzione) . However, the Rialto Bridge is the oldest and certainly the best known, as well as one of the most visited monuments in the city.