Giardini della Biennale (Venice) Giardini della Biennale (Venice) 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's 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's Square and the Doge's Palace. The gardens contain 30 permanent pavilions. Each pavilion is allocated to a particular nation and displays works of art by
Main Square, Kraków by historic townhouses ("kamienice") and churches. The center of the square is dominated by the Cloth Hall ("Sukiennice"), rebuilt in 1555 in the Renaissance style, topped by a beautiful attic or "Polish parapet" decorated with carved masks. On one side of the cloth hall is the Town Hall Tower ("Wieża ratuszowa"), on the other the 10th century Church of St. Adalbert and 1898 Adam Mickiewicz Monument. Rising above the square are the Gothic towers of St. Mary's Basilica ("Kościół Mariacki"). Kraków Main Square does not have a town hall, because it has not survived to the present day. The main