Venice – Saint Mark – St. Mark's Basilica
Basilica of St. Mark's Cathedral is the most exotic cathedral in Europe, to which no stranger can remain indifferent. To Herbert Spencer it found it repulsive as "an outstanding example …
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Venice – Saint Mark – St. Mark's Basilica
Basilica of St. Mark's Cathedral is the most exotic cathedral in Europe, to which no stranger can remain indifferent. To Herbert Spencer it found it repulsive as "an outstanding example …
Venice – Saint Mark – small square
Open space between San Marco and the Molo coastal boulevard, small square, was the place, where, before official meetings, politicians gathered informally on the backstage broglio (intrigues). Opposite the Palazzo Ducale rises widely admired, Sansovin's Renaissance masterpiece, …
118 the islands of central Venice are divided into six districts, called sestieri. The buildings in each sestiere are numbered sequentially, which only matters to the postmen, because buildings facing each other in one street can often have very distant numbers …
Venice accommodation
If you are coming to Venice without a reservation and you don't want to spend the first hours looking for a hotel, it is worth using the services of reservation offices, which are located at the train station (codz. 8.00-20.00), and Tronehetto (9.00-20.00), in Piazzale Roma (9.00-21.00), …
Arrival, information and communication
Planes to Venice land either at Treviso airport (30 km from the city), or at the city's Marco Polo airport, at the edge of the lagoon. From the former, buses run to the train station in Treviso, from where you can quickly …
VENICE (VENEZIA)
Small groups of fishermen and hunters inhabited the muddy shores of the Venetian Lagoon at the beginning of the Christian era, but it was not until the Germanic invasions of the 5th century that larger colonies of settlers began to emerge here. The first mass migration was caused by the arrival …
When you come to Venice for the first time, you bring with you all the baggage of expectations, many of which come true. All photos of the Palazzo Ducale, Basilica of San Marco, St. Mark's Square (known simply as "Piazza”), the Rialto Bridge and the palaces over the Grand Canal, which …