TRAVELS IN VENICE

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HEATHER KING

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Here’s how this week’s arts and culture piece begins:

Venice is a city founded in A.D. 421 that exists entirely on water, whose streets and alleys have hardly changed in centuries, and is navigated either on foot or by little boats called vaporettos that zip along the canals.

It’s as if a tiny corner of the world had been dipped in resin around the turn of the 16th century and has been slowly, picturesquely deteriorating ever since.

Whole libraries have been written about its history, buildings, art, palace intrigues, and near hallucinatory effect on visitors.

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2 responses to “TRAVELS IN VENICE”

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    Mitch Hinkle

    I really enjoyed this piece. Thank you Heather.
    I visited Venice for the first time in May. I only had scheduled a day and a half because I considered it to be very much of a tourist trap. And it was to some degree. But absolutely worth all the time you can spend! I came away absolutely enthralled.
    Thank you helping me to mentally revisit Venice and give me more reasons to return!

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      HEATHER KING

      Exactly, Mitch! In spite of (understandably) being a tourist trap, and of course I was a tourist, too, the place is simply beyond beliief. And outside of the tourist attractions, there are vast unexplored swathes that you could spend days, weeks and months discoverng. That the place has been preserved as well as it has, what with the fragile infrastructure, is nothing short of amazing. I’m glad you loved it, too.

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