{"id":6065,"date":"2017-05-23T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volare.volotea.com\/?post_type=inspiracion&p=6065"},"modified":"2017-05-23T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:10:20","slug":"hidden-treasures","status":"publish","type":"inspiracion","link":"https:\/\/volare.volotea.com\/en\/cities\/venice\/hidden-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like all cities with a long history, there are a multitude of things to see, many of which are before our very eyes. But, we don&#8217;t stop and take them in because we&#8217;re distracted by other more famous or obvious sites.<\/p>\n<p>Venice has places like this which are less known or visited than the traditional and renowned spots such as Piazza San Marco with its basilica, the Doge&#8217;s Palace, the Rialto Bridge or the Gallerie dell&#8217;Accademia, just to mention some of the most famous tourist destinations.<\/p>\n<p>One somewhat less known and tucked away place is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.it\/maps\/place\/Parrocchia+Santa+Maria+Formosa\/@45.4354311,12.3426167,17z\/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x477eae2796196131:0xf887e81ef2a27c96!2sChiesa+San+Giorgio+dei+Greci!8m2!3d45.4354311!4d12.3448054!3m4!1s0x0:0x7881ec05c15d6212!8m2!3d4\">St. George\u2019s Greek Orthodox Church<\/a> and the adjacent Museum of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istitutoellenico.org\/english\/index.html\">Hellenic Institute for Byzantine Studies<\/a>, which are just a short walk from San Marco,<\/p>\n<p>I must confess I&#8217;ve only recently discovered these places, even though I knew they existed and have passed them a multitude of times. They were along I street I took often as my maternal grandmother and some relatives lived in their area. It was also the route I sometimes took back home from school.<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago, I found myself walking by the front while taking a stroll without any particular destination in mind. I wondered to myself why I had never visited this church and museum as I had many other of the city&#8217;s sites.<\/p>\n<p>I must confess that one of the countries that I love most, other than my own, is Greece, I know it quite well having visited there a number of times on various trips.<\/p>\n<p>Having come across this Greek orthodox church by pure accident during opening hours, I found myself visiting the museum, which is rich in examples of iconic and church-related objects.<\/p>\n<p>This place has an ancient history. For commercial reasons, Venice has, in fact, always been well-connected to Greece and others places. The city has had numerous Greek communities. In the second half of the 1400s, permission was given to set up a \u201cSchool\u2019 to support them and follow the orthodox rites. Here, the orthodox rites, which up until then were held in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.it\/maps\/place\/Chiesa+di+San+Biagio+Vescovo\/@45.4041151,12.2416438,10z\/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1schiesa+di+S.+Biagio!3m4!1s0x477eae2f725fb441:0xa57ad5c314c2396d!8m2!3d45.4325096!4d12.3502557\">Church of Saint Biagio<\/a>, were allowed to be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>This, my first visit, provided a pleasant discovery of the building interiors and of an interesting exhibition on Byzantine icons and paintings of the Venetian Greek school from the period 1500 to 1800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curious traveller doesn&#8217;t need to wander around hidden streets to find treasures, great and small, with understated charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6063,"template":"","topics":[2534],"destination":[2831],"class_list":["post-6065","inspiracion","type-inspiracion","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topics-lifestyle-culture","destination-venice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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