|
Occupying
117 islands in the azure waters of the Adriatic, this lagoon city is a watery maze of grand canals, 177 smaller canals, over 400 bridges and the world's most famous sandbar, the Lido. Though thoroughly walkable, getting around Venice is a mesmerizing experience aboard the city's variety of public transport boats, the vaporetti or smaller (and more expensive) motoscafi. Took a very romantic (and expensive) gondola ride through the heart of the city.
Venice's
enticing, exotic beauty, typified by the Byzantine architecture , enormous stained glass windows rising along the Grand Canal and Venetian Carnival masks with their wry, knowing smiles - attest to the city's historic role as a great Eastern trader. Venice's legendary maritime heroes, such as Marco Polo, ploughed the Levantine trading routes. The entire Mediterranean flowed through the Venetian Republic, adorning the city in the splendors that illuminate it today.
Venice's
70,000 inhabitants do much more than meditate upon the glories of Venice's past - saw so many people, saw many different people sitting in the restaurants in San Marco Square, or selling leather goods, hand blown, Murano glass and Armani ties at the city's many fashionable boutiques. Venice is a great city for walking, shopping, eating or just getting lost in narrow streets of the city
|
