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The Teatro Goldoni (formerly Teatro San Luca, Teatro Vendramin di San Salvatore) is one of the opera houses and theatres of Venice.Today it is the home of the Teatro Stabile del Veneto.The modern theatre is located near the Rialto Bridge in the historic center of Venice.

The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a cultural institution in Venice, Italy, founded in 1869 at the behest of Conte Giovanni (Count John), the last descendant of the Venetian Querini Stampalia family.Architect Carlo Scarpa designed interior, exterior, and garden elements and spaces on the ground floor of the historic building.

The Ponte della Costituzione (English Constitution Bridge) is the fourth bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, and was moved into place in 2007 (connecting Stazione di Santa Lucia to Piazzale Roma), amid protest by politicians and the general public.The bridge was installed in 2008 and opened to the public on the night of September 11, 2008.The bridge was known as Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande before the official name was adopted to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Italian constitution in 2008. Tourists and locals in Venice now refer to it as the Calatrava Bridge (Italian Ponte di Calatrava).

The Venice giardini is an area of parkland in the historic city of Venice which hosts the Venice Biennale Art Festival, a major part of the city cultural biennale.The gardens were created by Napoleon Bonaparte who drained an area of marshland in order to create a public garden on the banks of the Bacino di San Marco which is a narrow stretch of water dividing the gardens from St.Mark Square and the Doge Palace.The gardens contain 30 permanent pavilions.Each pavilion is allocated to a particular nation and displays works of art by its nationals during the Venice Biennale.Several of the pavilions were designed by leading architects of the 20th century, including Carlo Scarpa and Alvar Aalto.

The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy.The church, whose name translates into St.Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation), is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the Jubanico family who founded it in the 9th century.The edifice is situated on the Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, west of the Piazza San Marco.It was rebuilt by Giuseppe Sardi for Admiral Antonio Barbaro between 1678 and 1681 and has one of the finest Venetian Baroque facades in all of Venice.

The Chiesa di San Giuliano (St Julian), commonly called San Zulian in the Venetian dialect, is a church in Venice.San Zulian is in the parish of San Salvador.It is situated on the Merceria, the main shopping street of the city.Originally a structure from the 9th century it underwent a number of reconstructions, including likely after the 1105 fire of the neighborhood.The facade was constructed in 1553 1554 by Jacopo Sansovino, and completed after his death in 1570 by Alessandro Vittoria.

San Servolo is an Italian island in the Venetian Lagoon, to the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore.Benedictine monks lived on this island from at least the eighth century and for almost five hundred years.They were joined later by nuns escaping from the convents of Saints Leone and Basso on the island of Malamocco, which had been destroyed by a seaquake.At the beginning of the 15th century the nuns departed, but they were soon replaced by a few dozen other nuns, who were fleeing the Turkish invasion of Crete.However, by the beginning of the eighteenth century, only a few were left, and soon thereafter the Senate of the Republic of Venice designated San Servolo as the site of a new military hospital, needed due to the continuing war against the Turks.Later the hospital was used to care for the mentally ill.

Santa Maria di Nazareth is a Roman Catholic Carmelite church also called Church of the Scalzi (Chiesa degli Scalzi) being the seat in Venice of the Discalced Carmelites religious order (Scalzi in Italian means barefoot).It is located in the sestiere of Cannaregio, near Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.It was built in the mid 17th century to the designs of Baldassarre Longhena and completed in the last decades of that century.

Santa Maria dei Carmini, also called Santa Maria del Carmelo and commonly known simply as the Carmini, is a large church in the sestiere, or neighbourhood, of Dorsoduro in Venice, northern Italy.It nestles against the former Scuola Grande di Santa Maria del Carmelo, also known as the Scuola dei Carmini.This charitable confraternity was officially founded in 1597, and arose from a lay women charitable association, the Pinzocchere dei Carmini.The members of this lay group were associated as tertiaries to the neighbouring Carmelite monastery.They were responsible for stitching the Scapulars for the Carmelites.