Bridge of Sighs Venice

Venice , Veneto, Italy

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  • Typical sight of Venice

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    k0k0m0 2 contributions Argentina Nov 7, 1998

    It looks like a romantic place, but in fact was the path for immates before being executed.

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    Floating City

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    Tyrol

    The next morning we started out trip to Bavarian Alps and over the Brenner Pass to Venice.
    But first, roll on through the Tyrol’s massive mountains to a region famous for adventure sports. Most of the tour did the whitewater rafting optional activity on the river and some just lazed around beautiful scereny. Most people …

  • 2

    Visita rápida a Venecia

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    Llegué a Venecia con un sol de mediodía radiante y sin hacer frío.

    Cuando salí de la estación me tomé un Vaporetto, el bus acuático, y me dirigí hacia el albergue que tenía recomendado en la guía. Las paradas de los vaporettos están inmediatamente enfrente de la estación Santa Lucía.

    Si bien en la guía Lux decía que era más …

  • 3

    Venice!

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    On Thursday, we left Siena and took a train to Venice. We had to change trains in Florence, and because we did not take an expensive express train, it took most of the day to get to Venice. We rode the Vaperetto (Water Bus) from the train station to St. Marks Square. Then we attempted to walk to our hotel nearby. We took a couple of wrong bridges, …

  • 4

    Venice weaves its way into our hearts

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    We spent most of yesterday traveling from our monastic hotel in Assisi, to arrive last night our our "uber" modern Laguna Palace Hotel on the Venetian mainland. The interior of this hotel is designed to look like the inside of a cruise liner and they've done a pretty good job of it too. But, I am disappointed that our hotel is on the mainland of …

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    Checking in and do the touristy things first....

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    Wat is dat relaxed, alleen een koffertje als handbagage mee. Thuis de boardingpass geprint dus huppakee, gelijk door naar de security check. Het is al weer sinds tijden dat we met een klein 'vliegtuigje' hebben gevlogen, maar het verbaast ons dat we zo ruim zitten met gigantisch veel beenruimte. De KLM Cityhopper vertrekt stipt op tijd en we landen …

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    Exploring Venice and Learning Some History

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    Wednesday, July 14, 2010 – Venice

    Started the day off by visiting the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, which is located just off of the Grand Canal. The museum is a modern art gallery that Peggy Guggenheim began post-war. The museum is her house on the canal, which includes some original pieces of furniture, as well as the paintings in her …

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    Lovely (but sinking) city of Venice..

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    ... pricey. Just a window shop for me! We wandered around the Doges Palace, and got to walk the walk the Bridge of Sighs is supposedly named for. The story goes that the prisoners were carted across their little enclosed prisoner bridge and the last ...

  • 2

    Venice: The Fragile and the Extraordinary

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    ... kept true to the Venetian style.  On the Rialto Market, right below the Rialto Bridge - which we mistook for the Bridge of Sighs and kissed, convinced we were keeping to tradition - there were hundreds if not thousands of Venetian masks, all of which ...

  • 3

    The Lady of the Lagoon

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    ... routes, its rich merchants and tradesmen flowing in to the Serenissima from every corner of the earth.   We walked through the Bridge of Sighs adjoining the Palazzo Ducale to the prison.  It is said that it was the prisoner's last glance at the ...

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    More Shiny Objects

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    ... to be napping so we sneaked a few photos. I had my first cup of espresso in their cafe right under the Bridge of Sighs (the connecting walkway between the Palace and the prison where the inmates' wails could be heard awaiting execution). Venetians were ...

  • 5

    Lost in Venice.

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    ... the Palazzo Ducale, the official residence of the Doges, built in the 9th century and also checked out the Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs). After this we went to the famous Piazza San Marco and the Basilica Di San Marco, which was originally built to ...

  • 6

    Venturing to Venezia...

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    ... younger local crowd. We walked by Ca'Rezzonico from the 17th Century that was originally a palace. We than crossed the Bridge of Sighs to the Ducale Palace. Originally from the 14th Century, this palace was rebuilt in the 16th Century from a ...

  • 7

    The Car Free City

    ... it gives me something to do when I go back. We did however go around the back of the Basilica to see the Bridge of Sighs. People commonly interperate the name of this beautifully stone carved brige to mean that it is a romantic bridge. But ...

  • 8

    Pedestrians in Venice

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    ... lined in fantastic frescoes and artwork with gilded frames all around.  We eventually made our way across the Bridge of Sighs, a nickname popularized during the Romantic Period, where prisoners got their last glimpse of the lagoon before making ...

  • 9

    Opera and Water

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    ... of the 6pm bells of the large Basilica della Salute there. Past Piazza San Marco and up the side canal under the Bridge of Sighs between the Doges Palace and the prison (prisoners used to sigh when transported across the enclosed bridge a see the outside ...

  • 10

    Venice - water, water everywhere

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    ... square, the campanile, the Doge's palace where we have to come early tomorrow morning, the street artists, the Bridge of Sighs. Kiosk selling Venetian masks The Piazza Entrance of the Basilica I refused to do that... I have ...