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Experience the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Visit the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice safely, where art, history, architecture, culture and food and wine come together to offer a unique emotion. Guided tours of the Vatican Chapels and the Borges Labyrinth are available every day. From 21 May it will be possible to access the Green Theater and visits to the museum complex of the Giorgio Cini Foundation will also start again
Tour 'Giorgio Cini Foundation': enter the beauty
The tour includes a visit to the Longhena Staircase, the Palladio Cloister, the Buora Cloister, the Cenacle with the Wedding at Cana, the Longhena Library (only on weekends) and the Nuova Manica Lunga. A journey accompanied by an audio guide through art, history and architecture.
Tour 'Wood with the Vatican chapels', the architecture of enchantment
The tour of the Wood with the Vatican Chapels lasts approximately 50 minutes, during which you can walk through the wood and experience the fascination of the Vatican Chapels, the installations of the Vatican pavilion which were created for the 2018 Architecture Biennale, as you listen to the audio guide with the original soundtrack composed by Antonio Fresa. Buy the CD along with the tour at a reduced price! You can pick it up at the time of your visit.
Tour 'Borges Labyrinth': the garden of forking paths
On 11 June 2021, the Borges Labyrinth opened for the first time, built in 2011 to pay homage to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death: a kilometer of forking paths, composed of 3200 boxwood plants arranged according to the design of the architect Randoll Coate. The 45-minute tour allows you to visit the "Nuova Manica Lunga", observe the Borges Labyrinth from above and follow its paths, accompanied by an audio guide with the original soundtrack, composed by Antonio Fresa and performed with the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice. Buy the CD along with the tour at a reduced price! You can pick it up at the time of your visit.
'Teatro Verde' tour: the most beautiful theater in the world
The tour allows you to visit the Teatro Verde, the most beautiful theater in the world, as actress Katharine Hepburn defined it in the 1950s. In 2021 the Theater was the subject of a restoration project, still in progress, which brought its architecture back to light, enhancing all the qualities of the materials, the botanical structure, the spatiality and the extraordinary landscape views. The intervention, by the Cini Foundation team, was made possible thanks to the contribution of Cartier. The Teatro Verde tour will be available starting May 20th. It will be possible to visit the digital work "The Mask of Time" by Matteo Casalegno and Martux_M.
Combine 2 tours for a more valuable experience
A tour of about 2 hours, in which you can combine two itineraries of your choice between the architecture and art of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, a visit to the Borges Labyrinth, the suggestion of the Wood with the Vatican Chapels and the Teatro Verde.
Combine 3 tours for the unique experience
A tour of about 2 hours and 30 minutes in which you can combine three routes of your choice between the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Borges Labyrinth, the Bosco of the Cini Foundation with the Vatican Chapels and the Teatro Verde.
Book 4 tours for the full experience
A tour of about 4 hours, in which you can visit the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Borges Labyrinth, the Wood with the Vatican Chapels and the Teatro Verde.
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ARCHIPELAGO 2022
Archipelago is a series of concert and artistic residences at Giorgio Cini Foundation on Isola di San Giorgio in Venice, which involves excellent young chamber groups together with soloists and represents an important step in their growth path through a period of residence and study at the Venetian Foundation to perfect pieces in new formations and develop new projects.
The 2022 edition explores the relationship between architecture and music trough itineraries that plan guided tours in the spaces of Cini Foundation and Teatro Verde, and concerts with musical programs inspired by the places visited on Isola di San Giorgio.
SAN GIORGIO CAFÉ, the museum bistro on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Small traditional Venetian dishes, fresh fish from the Lagoon, seasonal vegetables, Venetian wines and cocktails inspired by Venetian 'ladies'.
'LO SQUERO' Auditorium, an immersion in music
A unique place which combines exceptional acoustics with a super-favourable position overlooking the lagoon.