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Note: You can click on each image below to view a larger version.
| RIGHT: The facade of St. Mark's Basilica. |
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| RIGHT: Another view of the facade of St. Mark's. |
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| ABOVE: Mosaics around the entrance to St. Mark's Basilica. |
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| RIGHT: Looking along the Grand Canal in the late afternoon. |
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| ABOVE: Further views of the Grand Canal. |
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LEFT: Looking through the
mooring poles for the gondolas towards the church and monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore. |
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ABOVE LEFT: Another view of San Giorgio Maggiore.
ABOVE RIGHT: The famous Bridge of Sighs, so called because it links the Doge's palace
(left) with the prison. |
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LEFT: Looking down into
St. Mark's Square from the balcony above the entrance to the Basilica, where the
rulers of Venice would once have watched religious and civic ceremonies taking place below. |
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ABOVE LEFT: A view over the city, with the domes of the Basilica in the foreground.
ABOVE RIGHT: A view towards the church of Santa Maria della Salute, built to commemorate the end of a plague
in 1630. The land tapering to a point to the left of it is the Dogana di Mare, or customs house.
ABOVE LEFT AND CENTER: Some typical street scenes.
ABOVE RIGHT: A street on the island of Murano, one of the small islands in the Venetian lagoon.
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LEFT: Looking towards the island of
Burano, noted for its brightly coloured houses, from the top of the bell
tower of the cathedral on the island of Torcello. |
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LEFT: Looking over Torcello
and the lagoon. This gives an idea of what the original landscape would have been
like before Venice grew into a city. |
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