Private Tour: San Giorgio Maggiore and San Lazzaro degli Armeni Island
Venice, Italy
Trip Type: Private Sightseeing Tours
Duration: 4 hours
Enjoy a boat trip discovering two precious islands: San Giorgio Maggiore and San Lazzaro degli Armeni.
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Enjoy a boat trip discovering two precious islands: San Giorgio Maggiore and San Lazzaro degli Armeni.
Looking at the lagoon, from St. Mark’s square, the white shape of a classical temple appears surrounded by the waters. It is San Giorgio Maggiore Church, one of the Palladian buildings in Venice, in San Giorgio island.
Also known in the ancient times as the “cypresses island”, it was first a settlement of a Benedictine community. Far from the crowded St. Mark’s Square, the island offers a breathtaking sight from the top of the bell tower, the façade that Venice showed to her visitors coming from the sea.
Then a little jewel of the lagoon, San Lazzaro degli Armeni, this island, dedicated to San Lazzaro, patron saint of the leprous, was first a leper hospital. After a few centuries of decay, at the beginning of the 18th century, a community of Armenian monks, settled here.
They turned the old buildings in a monastery so that the island became an incredible cultural centre, important for the collection of books and for the typography opened in 1789.
Looking at the lagoon, from St. Mark’s square, the white shape of a classical temple appears surrounded by the waters. It is San Giorgio Maggiore Church, one of the Palladian buildings in Venice, in San Giorgio island.
Also known in the ancient times as the “cypresses island”, it was first a settlement of a Benedictine community. Far from the crowded St. Mark’s Square, the island offers a breathtaking sight from the top of the bell tower, the façade that Venice showed to her visitors coming from the sea.
Then a little jewel of the lagoon, San Lazzaro degli Armeni, this island, dedicated to San Lazzaro, patron saint of the leprous, was first a leper hospital. After a few centuries of decay, at the beginning of the 18th century, a community of Armenian monks, settled here.
They turned the old buildings in a monastery so that the island became an incredible cultural centre, important for the collection of books and for the typography opened in 1789.
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