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Visitors to Florence find the place jammed in the summer, the prices and temperatures high. They have great difficulty in finding a table in the town’s most famous square, …
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The place smells of history. (Some of the canals just smell.) A city-state no more than three miles long and scarcely two miles wide, a world power for several …
Sights and Attractions in Venice
SIGHTS Accademia (Venetian painters: Bellini, Canaletto, Carpaccio etc.), Arsenale, Ca’d’Oro (15th c., most lavishly decorated Gothic palace of the city, houses the Gallery Fran-chetti); Ca’Pesaro (17th c., Baroque palace, …
Travel to Venice
HISTORY The not so easily accessible lagoon island became the government seat of the Venetian Sea-League in 811. The independent city state was founded in the 11th century under …
Map of Venice
VENICE Venice (324,000 inhabitants), the capital of the region of Veneto, was built on 118 islands in the Gulf of Venice, separated from the sea by juts of land. …