Other places for the curious

Take a walk even to the part of the Giudecca, dominated by the very large stone structure of the Mulini Stucky, today being restructured, and go and see the small residential quarters recently created. Enter in the pleasure boat yards, which offers an attractive industrial archaeological landscape 
in which there are some current artisan activities.

"La Biennale d'Arte" (The Art Biennial, odd years) and the "Biennale di Architettura" (The Architecture Biennial, even years) offers the occasion to see the Corderie and the Gaggiandre, beautiful, powerful structures of the Arsenali zone, unfortunately not otherwise visitable. 

In Venice even the university headquarters are beautiful, among which the most recent made in industrial archaeological buildings: the Architecture faculty in Santa Maria and the Economic faculty in Cannaregio, towards the end of the foundation of San Giobbe.

In the morning, don't miss the market of Rialto, both for fruits and vegetables as well as for fish. Excellent for going shopping with tasty products from the inland.  At Pugni Bridge, near Campo Santa Margherita you also find a....floating fruit and vegetable stand.

At Piazza S. Marco entering in one of the large doors of the Procuratie Vecchie, you will discover that the building we are used to considering only as a beautiful façade is in reality an immense and efficient old building for offices, distributed with an attractive succession of elegant courtyards. In these there is a rich lapidary, a collection of traditional elements, Venetian and Lombard, in stone (statues, portal frames, etc...) from the Middle Ages. 

A few meters from Campo Manin you go and see the beautiful spiral stone stairway of Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, where "Othello" by Orson Welles was filmed.

Also beautiful and little-frequented, the Glass Museum in Murano and the Lace Museum in Burano.

Among the uncountable museums don't miss that of the Marina, in which from cards and plastics demonstrating the changes of the city to large-scale models of old ships, to the gondolas, to the ceremonial bucentaur, you will find everything needed to give you an idea of the Republic of Venice and its great past; it can also be very pleasant for children.

In Campo San Beneto the fascinating Fortuny Museum. In a beautiful late-Gothic palazzo which was the last home of its inspirer, the painter, set designer, costume designer, fashion creator, Spanish collector and photographer  Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949). Today municipal, Palazzo Fortuny is a rare example of a 20th-century-environment museum: the locations are decorated as they were done by Mariano Fortuny; you can admire printed fabrics, lighting systems, theatrical maquettes, clothes and costumes made by Fortuny, in addition to his paintings and copies of paintings that tell the story of that period.  

A wander around the Ghetto (the name from the ancient "getto", foundries, you will be led to a very non-touristic location; in addition to the old synagogues you can also find pleasant kosher restaurants and food shops. Notice the curious very old statues near Portego dei Mori.