Venician Memories
Gondolas of Venice are for tourists. Water taxis get
one around the city, and water boats transport all goods and supplies. There are no cars or bikes in old Venice.
Venice is easy to walk, but the many alleyways make it
real easy to get lost.
Italian coffee is so strong a spoon will stand up in
it all by itself
Venice is at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea. The
city is divided into six districts. Yellow signs around the city direct you to
Piazza San Marcos, the Rialto Bridge, Pizzale Roma, or the train station.
The Grand Canal is the main waterway and is shaped
like an inverted ‘S’. The train station is at one end, and Piazza San Marco (St
Mark) at the other. You can cross the Grand Canal at three points
The
large St. Mark’s square is bordered on three
sides by stores that all are under a covered walkway. The Basilicade de San Marco, a Byzantine
church, and Doge’s Palace are on the fourth
side.
All the paintings inside the
church are done in mosaics and simply gorgeous! The many columns are of
different colored marble, and there are many statues.
The elevator
to the top of the church tower provides a fantastic view of St Mark’s Square.
This clock near the palace is
several hundred years old. It strikes on the hour and the hand on the roman
The winged lion is the symbol of both St. Mark and of Venice.
Handmade lace
was gorgeous and still made in Venice.
A very rude
young vendor in the square.
The Rialto
Bridge is the largest bridge in Venice and the only one with shops on it.
By the evening
dinner hour the vendors are gone, and musicians play for the dinner crowd at
the sidewalk restaurants.
A nice visit
with a medical student from Madrid who was visiting the city and with whom we
struck up a conversation.
We were lucky to
stay in an old hotel in old Venice to get the real flavor of the city. There was
no A/C, but with the window open at night we were sent to dreamland by the singing
gondoliers below!
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