"Venice"
If you are
thinking about a romantic city break, one of the first thought is Venice,
surely, a strange city as you breathe an unreal air, upcoming from a far past
where people used to walk or use horses instead of driving their car fast and
nervous, when life rhythm was slower and everything seemed so special. Now,
centuries have passed, but Venice still keeps these amazing features, there are
no cars running along its calli or around Venice squares (named Campi and
Campielli) and apart from Venice Hotels distributed all over the city it seems
as you are still living an ancient time. Venice has now become a very important
touristic site, and every year thousands of people arrive here to visit its
famous interest points. The most well known place of the city is San Marco
square, which is also the only spot able to obtain “square” name: inside it,
there are some of the most beautiful places of the world, starting from the
Basilica of San Marco, which was the private church of Venice dukes, and the
Ducal Palace, the head quarter of the Serenissima Republic of Venice. The ducal
palace is linked to old prisons thanks to the so called “bridge of sighs”:
people think it’s a romantic name, anyhow you should take in mind prisons where
not the most famous Venice hotel, but a place from where nobody, but Giacomo
Casanova, ever escaped. And bridge’s name represents the last breathe prisoners
made before entering there.
In San Marco Square moreover, you can admire what venecian people call “el paron de casa” (the Landlord): we are talking about the Campanile of San Marco, the bell tower, destroyed at the beginning of the last century and then rebuilt for in full, from which you can now admire a breathless view on the entire Venice. Sometimes people enter the reception of their selected Venice hotel and ask the concierge information about what too see in this amazing city, thinking Venice is just San Marco and its square. Instead, Venice is not San Marco only: starting from Venice train station, S.Lucia, it is possible to take a waterbus thanks to you can see the Grand Canal (Canal Grande), the most important channel of the city. Over there, you can admire all famous palaces facing this old river (yes, it was an old river once), as Palazzo Grassi, Ca d’Oro, Ca’ Pesaro and many more, even if some of them are now museums and not private houses. Yes, because Venice is a city where art is one of the keywords which made it so crowded, as there are plenty of fascinating museums: from Accademia Gallery and Ca’ Rezzonico if you are a fan of classic art (also Correr museum in San Marco square as well, which shows you Venice history), or Ca’ Pesaro and Guggenheim collection if you consider more modern art, up to Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana if you like more contemporary art. And then churches: even if Napolenon destroyed many of them,Venice is a city where there are more churches than Venice hotels. It’s a joke, but there are so many, some of which can’t be missed: Frari church, Miracoli Church, San Geremia, San Cassiano, just to quote a few of them.
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