“Arrived safely in Venice. Streets all flooded. Please advise”
Mark Twain
The entrance to Venice was always from the sea.
One loses this perspective arriving today by car or train from the mainland.
It is like arriving a great palace via the back door.
And quite an entrance it was onto the great Square of St Mark. Designed to show off how rich these traders were.
Below–The Doges Palace
Above-The Campanile.
Below-the view from the top of the Campanile looking down on St Marks Square.
Whilst standing admiring this view the giant bells a few feet away began to toll and that was quite deafening.
Above-The Campanile and the restaurants of St Marks Square. Below-Patrons at a bar in the square.
Below-The view the patrons had of The Doges Palace
Below-The Grand Canal is the main street of Venice. The Rialto Bridge can be seen.
There are many intimate side canals one can get lost in.
Below-A small lane leads to the house of the famous designer of Delphi dresses -Fortuny .
Below-A statue stands at the corner of a small plaza.
Below-A Moor outside of Titians House
Below the Basilica Santi Giovani Paolo.
Below– This alley was about three feet wide.
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Burano is a small island a few miles and a few minutes away by “vaporetti” from Venice . It is one of several islands that are in the Venice lagoon. Very colorfull.
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The only people who really possess a place are travelers.
The others are all possessed by the place.
Phil Maillard