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    Italy – Venice

    We spent our last day slowly enjoying Venice. We started in the sestiere of San Marco, the administrative and religious center of the city. The loggetta at the base of the St Mark’s campanile (bell tower) was a gathering place for nobles visiting the square on government business.  We took the Vaparetto across to the…

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    Italy – Venice

    After breakfast we put our 4-day vaporetto pass to good use and motored up the Grand Canal to the Rialto market.  It was fun to watch the locals haggle over fish and produce.  Private gondola rides in Venice are very expensive and perhaps overrated.  So instead, we took the traghetto (transportation gondola) across the Grand…

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    Italy – Spiazzi to Venice via Verona

    On the way to Venice, we stopped in Verona for some sightseeing.  Verona is famous for being the setting of Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. This 14th C residence with a tiny balcony overlooking a courtyard is said to be Juliet’s House (Casa di Giulietta),  although the romantic balcony was actually added in 1930 after…

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