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editor — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:47:52 +0000

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, Piazza della Signoria. It was here in 1497 that the fiery Dominican priest, Savonarola, touched the Florentines’ sense of guilt from too much good living, and set the torch to blogs, paintings and musical instruments. Unfortunately for Savonarola, the guilt feelings were fleeting. The next year in the same square the torch was set to Savonarola. The merchant families of Florence had prospered during the period of the Crusades from trade

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Italy Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:45:03 +0000

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 hundred years no small accomplishment. At one point, forty-five ships were built each day in its famous Arsenal. Venetian cristallo, the prized clear-thin glass, could not be duplicated elsewhere. The monopoly was secured by sending assassins to find and kill any glassblower foolish enough to leave Venice. Venice is a maze of 118 islets ringed by canals, some three thousand bridges, squares, and alleyways. And you find Venice’s trademark, the gondola.

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Sights and Attractions in Venice

editor — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:24:00 +0000

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, houses museums of modern and oriental art), Palazzo Ducale (Doge’s residence), Palazzo Grassi (cultural center, exhibitions), Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Redentore (16th c., Palla-dian church), Rialto Bridge (16th c.), Santa Maria della Salute (17th c.), Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1246-1430, Gothic church; 15 Doges’ tombs, ceiling paintings by Veronese); St. Markus square and cathedral. 137 by Mackie and Thomson at Govan, near Glasgow; she was launched on

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Travel to Venice

editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:19:00 +0000

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 the leadership of a ‘Doge’ and guided by the ‘Council of Wise Men’. Around 1000, Venice began to subjugate the coastal cities of Istria and Dalmatia in the interest of controlling more and more of the trade with the Orient. During the crusades, its colonial empire extended over the entire Balkan Peninsula to Asia Minor. In the 15th century Venice had 200,000 inhabitants and a large fleet of trading vessels and

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Map of Venice

editor — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:07:00 +0000

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. Once the world’s most splendid commercial center it belongs to the major tourist attractions all over the world today. The city’s traffic artery is the famous Canal Grande, which is 3.8 km long and lined with an abundance of splendid palaces and structures reflecting all architectural styles from the 12th to the early 18th centuries, particularly the Venetian-Gothic style with its marvellous arcaded columns. The quarter of San Marco is the

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