Venice & Sissi

Visit Sissi's apartments in Venice

Who does not remember the final scene of the film Sissi, the fate of an Empress Sissi and her husband when they make their entrance to Piazza San Marco? The film recalls their stay and Venice, but few know that he resided in what is now the Museo Correr.

From July 10, 2012 will be seen again, after a careful renovation that has restored the magnificent frescoes, marbles and stucco, chimneys, doors and door frames, floors and furnishings, the apartments of Austria‘s Imperial Palace, where the princess Sissi and her husband Franz Joseph of Austria in 1856 and resided in 1861 during their visits to Venice.

The apartments, located in the Napoleonic Procuratie New, in anticipation of the arrival of the imperial couple were the subject of an arrangement and decorative interventions.

In particular, there were interventions on the Audience Hall, on the study and the bedroom was laid on a rich tapestry. In the dressing room ceilings were decorated in the finest marble with the inclusion of micro-diamonds.

Everywhere garlands and capricious reasons formed by the interlacing of white stucco and ornanti in color or in gold and polychrome flowers including lilies and lilies stand out.

Do not miss this new and unexpected unusual itinerary in the city of Venice.