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Venice Travel

editor — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:39:00 +0000

Venice Travel GIARDINI PUBLICI AND SANT’ELENA. Those who long for trees and grass can stroll through the Public Gardens, installed by Napoleon, or bring a picnic lunch to the shady lawns of Sant’Elena. (Vaporetto: Giardini or S. Elena. Free.) JEWISH GHETTO. In 1516 the doge forced Venice’s Jewish population into the old cannon-foundry area, creating the first Jewish ghetto in Europe; the word ghetto is the Venetian word for foundry. The oldest schola (synagogue), Schola Grande Tedesca (German Synagogue), shares a building with the Museo Ebraica di Venezia (Hebrew Museum of Venice) in the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo. (Cannaregio 2899B.

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VENICE VENEZIA

editor — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:51:00 +0000

VENICE (VENEZIA) There is a mystical quality to Venice’s (pop. 265,000) decadence. Her lavish palaces stand proudly on a steadily sinking network of wood, treading in the clouded waters of age-old canals lapping at the feet of her abandoned front doors. Venice’s labyrinthine streets lead to a treasury of Renaissance art, housed in scores of palaces, churches, and museums that are themselves architectural delights. But the same streets that once earned the name La Serenissima (Most Serene) are now saturated with visitors, as Venice grapples with an economy reliant on the same tourism that forces more and more of the

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