Scaffolded sites?

I hope you get recent reports, but on any visit you have to assume that a fair number of major sites are under restoration. They don't stand up for centuries by themselves. It's no reason to avoid any major city (except for Milan, of course, which doesn't need help to be a waste of time) because other major sites will be freshly restored. You just have to assume you will be back.

Yep, we were there last June and we stayed at the Hotel Messner which is about 300 yards from La Salute. It's dome was surrounded by scaffolding. I saw the same on a few buildings in Florence as well. Hard to avoid for historic buildings that are hundreds of years old.

Thanks. I didn't mean to suggest that I would change my itinerary just because a building is in scaffolding. :-) I just wanted to know in advance, if possible, if any of the "biggies" were going to be wrapped. We're going to be in Rome, Assisi, Lucca/Pisa, Bologna and Venice. I had been looking forward to taking photos of La Salute, and would have been pretty disappointed if I hadn't found out about the scaffolding before going. Now I can adjust my expectations accordingly.

When we were in Milan, at least they had put covering over the scaffolding that was a huge blowup of the Duomo, so it wasn't quite so bad. (That Duomo and its piazza, by the way, almost make Milan worth visiting.)

Here's a photo I took around Thanksgiving of 2007:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=6ionxcjydj3&thumb=6

Bernini's 4 Rivers fountain in Piazza Navona was covered up the first week of December. Don't know about now, but I understand why you want to be prepared. I was very disappointed as that is one of my most favorite fountains.

I know other stuff was scaffolded in Rome, but don't recall what. In Florence, the Uffizi has a lot of construction going on, but fortunately most of the sights are inside the building and unaffected.

Thanks, Steve. I looked at your pictures and it appears that part of St. Mark's in Venice is also scaffolded. Sigh.