BESPOKE TRAVEL IDEA
Architecture and Brodsky in Venice
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This tour is only available on request. You may venture to Venice with your company, family or friends. Descartes experts will adapt the program to your preferences
"Venice is so superior. If I had to live a different incarnation, I'd rather live in Venice as a cat, or anything, but in Venice."
Joseph Brodsky — in an interview with Sven Birkerts, 1979
Иосиф Бродский —
в интервью Свену Биркертсу, год 1979
в интервью Свену Биркертсу, год 1979
JOURNEY HIGHLIGHTS
A glimpse into future
and poetry of Brodsky
and poetry of Brodsky
Visit the Venice Architecture Biennale: the pavilions of France, the USA and other countries.
Get acquainted with a dozen Venetian palazzi and gardens laid out by Napoleon in the early 19th century.
And, of course, touch Brodsky's Venice: the Dorsoduro district, the Embankment of the Incurable and the hotel where the poet settled and where he wrote his first poems.
Get acquainted with a dozen Venetian palazzi and gardens laid out by Napoleon in the early 19th century.
And, of course, touch Brodsky's Venice: the Dorsoduro district, the Embankment of the Incurable and the hotel where the poet settled and where he wrote his first poems.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON TOUR
Itinerary idea
The program below is a specimen. Our experts will customize it in accordance with your preferences.
• Arrival in Venice
• Transfer to the hotel (we will help with the organization of the transfer)
• Accommodation and recreation
• Meeting for an aperitif at the historic Florian cafe, getting to know each other
• The first meeting with Venice. Guided tour of Piazza San Marco. Exclusive visit to the Basilica San Marco for our guests only
• Dinner at the Gritti Palace restaurant
• Transfer to the hotel (we will help with the organization of the transfer)
• Accommodation and recreation
• Meeting for an aperitif at the historic Florian cafe, getting to know each other
• The first meeting with Venice. Guided tour of Piazza San Marco. Exclusive visit to the Basilica San Marco for our guests only
• Dinner at the Gritti Palace restaurant
• After breakfast, we will go to get acquainted with the Architecture Biennale 2021
• We will visit Giardini, the main exhibition in the gardens laid out by Napoleon in the early 19th century. Together with the guide, he visited the pavilion of Russia, which opened this year after restoration, projects of France, the USA and other countries
• Lunch and rest
• In the evening we will go by boat to the ancient Venetian Palazzo. Meeting with the owner count.
• Dinner at Aman restaurant, Palazzo Papadopoli
• We will visit Giardini, the main exhibition in the gardens laid out by Napoleon in the early 19th century. Together with the guide, he visited the pavilion of Russia, which opened this year after restoration, projects of France, the USA and other countries
• Lunch and rest
• In the evening we will go by boat to the ancient Venetian Palazzo. Meeting with the owner count.
• Dinner at Aman restaurant, Palazzo Papadopoli
• Breakfast at the hotel
• 11:00 – Walk through the Opera district with a guide
• Visiting the market on the Left Bank of Paris, buying picnic specialties – warm baguette, cheeses, berries, pates and, of course, champagne
• An atmospheric picnic in the Luxembourg Garden
• 13:30 – Lunch
• Free time and shopping
• For those who wish, it is possible to organize a photo shoot before the ballet
• 19:00 – Mats Ek one-act ballets at Opéra Garnier
Mats Ek is a great and talented choreographer from Sweden, who is one of the symbols of ballet at the end of the 20th century. He belongs to those choreographers who were engaged in staging intellectual ballet in the 1970s.
• Late dinner
• 11:00 – Walk through the Opera district with a guide
• Visiting the market on the Left Bank of Paris, buying picnic specialties – warm baguette, cheeses, berries, pates and, of course, champagne
• An atmospheric picnic in the Luxembourg Garden
• 13:30 – Lunch
• Free time and shopping
• For those who wish, it is possible to organize a photo shoot before the ballet
• 19:00 – Mats Ek one-act ballets at Opéra Garnier
Mats Ek is a great and talented choreographer from Sweden, who is one of the symbols of ballet at the end of the 20th century. He belongs to those choreographers who were engaged in staging intellectual ballet in the 1970s.
• Late dinner
• After breakfast, we will go to get acquainted with the Architecture Biennale 2021
• We will visit Giardini, the main exhibition in the gardens laid out by Napoleon in the early 19th century. Together with the guide, he visited the pavilion of Russia, which opened this year after restoration, projects of France, the USA and other countries
• Lunch and rest
• In the evening we will go by boat to the ancient Venetian Palazzo. Meeting with the owner count.
• Dinner at Aman restaurant, Palazzo Papadopoli
• We will visit Giardini, the main exhibition in the gardens laid out by Napoleon in the early 19th century. Together with the guide, he visited the pavilion of Russia, which opened this year after restoration, projects of France, the USA and other countries
• Lunch and rest
• In the evening we will go by boat to the ancient Venetian Palazzo. Meeting with the owner count.
• Dinner at Aman restaurant, Palazzo Papadopoli
* The travel organiser may change particular details of the program which shall not make your experience less enjoyable or intense
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