Domus Ciliota Venice
Calle delle Muneghe Venice, Veneto, 30124 , Italy
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Vaporetti with the Vapors
Hello, again, Blogonauts.
Venice is beautiful, historic, and culture-packed city.
And along with these indubitable virtues, it also happens to exist in 21st-century Italy.
Italian disagreements are common and often filled with drama. (This is, after all, the country that lifted grand opera to its treacherous, tearful, …
Venice's "Doge and Pony Show": Piazza San Marco
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Friday was my chance to dip my tongue ... er ... toe ... into Venetian history, which contains much that is attractive and quite a bit that is distasteful. (Perhaps I meant tongue after all.)
I'll begin with the enormous (and frequently waterlogged) Piazza San Marco.
Three structures dominate the …
More Madonnas than you can shake a Crucifix at
Hello, again, Blogonauts.
You guys deserve a break! So I'll be more brief about how I spent my Saturday.
Besides simply wandering the city, I visited the Frari Basilica, a Franciscan church that contains some spectacular art work, none of which I was allowed to photograph. (Click on the links to see some samples found on the Web …
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Island Hopping in Venice
... glass displays of art which are quite neat.
Burano is further out than Murano and it takes nearly a half hour on the vaporetti to get there. The waterbus seems to be moving at an excruciatingly slow speed as it's only 6 or 8 km from Murano. Once you arrive, there's no mistaking which direction to head as shops welcome you as soon as you step off. Focus and move through the first street and you'll really get into the bright colored houses. ...
Venice Wandering
... reminiscent of the Eiffel Tower where you can see the city laid out in front of you. The unique thing about spending the money here is to get a really good picture of main Venice and the islands that lie around it. A bit windy, but worth the trip up. After that it was wandering San Marco before meeting my Vancouver friend for a late lunch.
We had fragolino's at Osteria de Baco to start. A fragolino is a strawberry flavored wine that was quite refreshing ...


