The Grand Canal (Italian : Canal Grande, Venetian : Canalasso/Canalazzo) curves along the very heart of Venice. It is indeed the geographical as well as the symbolic center of the city, and to everyone being present there it gives the sensation of being in a unique landscape. It emits a very special ambience, with the double curves designing its track and with its parade of palaces of a grand, uncomparable beauty, some of them still serving as a model of style and elegance, their greatness never having been beaten by any other building elsewhere on the globe. These constructions come from another time, standing there in their grandeur even until today, with their styles varying from the Veneto-Byzantinian to the “flamboyant” Gothic, from the pure Renaissance style to the exuberant Baroque forms. 3,800 m long for 30 to 70 m wide according to the places, the Grand Canal is the most important water-traffic corridor in Venice. In the world there exist not many places as fascinating as the Grand Canal.