Carnevale di Venezia
Annual festival famous for extravagant balls, street parades and masks
Independent Visit
Grand Canal
Major water thoroughfare lined with classical buildings and crossed by the Rialto bridge
Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto )
Ornate covered 16th-century stone footbridge crossing the Grand Canal
San Giorgio Maggiore Church (Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore)
Set on an island, an art-filled, bright white church by Palladio giving Venice views from its tower
Ostuni Cathedral (Cathédrale Santa Maria Assunta)
Roman Catholic church, originally Orthodox, rebuilt in Romanesque and Gothic styles with a 15th-century rose window
Aragonese Castle of Otranto (Castello Aragonese)
Historic fortress built in the 15th century by Ferdinand I of Aragon
Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata (Cattedrale di Otranto)
11th-century cathedral with ornate floor mosaics and a crypt containing the remains of martyrs