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Visiting the Veneto

The last time I went to Italy as a teenager in the 60s with my parents English, he had discovered the package tour cheap. The hotel was an oasis of fellow Brit tourists and the strangeness of the Italian food was the hot topic. Do not venture beyond the resort, except to go to the city to buy souvenirs in bad taste. No one thinks it is a short drive from the famous historic city filled with priceless art. My parents did not know, and would not have uncharted territory risked if they had. Years later, I regretted the missed opportunity, and I promised to return one day. Now I'm fifty years, and together with two friends traveled to Italy to live up to my promise. The first stop is Italy s 'Veneto, La Serenissima … Venice.

I leave the station Santa Lucia Railway and behold the Grand Canal, alive with ships and boats, making your business Venetian gondolas and boat taxis and buses … you and me. A first immediate excitement rises in me, and banish jet lag. "

We nest our cases roll on the Scalzi bridge. A five minute walk Station leads to the Hotel Marin. The place is not fancy, and not in a canal, but came highly recommended. The rooms are clean and comfortable, our stay includes a wonderful continental breakfast of fresh coffee dark, crunchy rolls and homemade preserves mom, and prices, of Venice, are a bargain.

distinctive power of Venice speaks of the lover and the artist in every traveler. You will be wasting time. If you 're lucky you are stopped in their tracks. This city is the architecture on the remarkable, palaces, churches, and art … No more searching for her, which is where you go. While wandering the streets and retained in the bridges, imagine the Venetians celebrities who might have stayed there before … Marco Polo, Casanova, and the red priest himself, Antonio Vivaldi, announcing his band of girls from San Marcos to present his last concert.

You quickly realize how little the city has changed over the centuries. Find the Basilica of San Marco and San Giorgio Maggiore, or the Palace Ducal, represented in the painting of the fourteenth century some famous, and the image fits exactly the structure is today. You are surrounded by living history.

We go to a concert tonight at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco … a beautiful church famous for its Tintoretto paintings. Come early to see the art before the show starts. The canvases are huge, bold images of biblical scenes interpretations: The Adoration of the Magi, The Slaughter of the Innocents, The Annunciation … each scene to emerge from the darkness, illuminated by a bright light source somewhere invisible in the paint. We are baffled, glad we chose this concert of the many that take place every night for Venice.

A trio performs Vivaldi's violin … lovely flute and soprano. They keep us happy for half an hour. The performance ends a bit prematurely, I think, and everyone gets up and heads for the stairs. "Where are you going?" I ask the man sitting next to me. "The Gallery", he says, pointing upwards. This is not over, this is the intermission.

We followed the crowd up a grand staircase to a room even greater. At the top of the stairs, a man of hands each of us an elegant, double handles, mirror polished wood. It becomes clear that the paintings were below only a fraction of the collection of Tintoretto. The rest are here, dozens of them, not just cover the walls, but across the ceiling, reminiscent of the limits produce maximum seen in the Palace of the Doges. The mirrors are to save twenty minutes of neck pain. Venetian glassmakers invented the mirror in 1508 so this is how people see these magnificent ceilings when they are new … images reflected in strike must have been the equivalent of MTV sixteenth century … hi-tech of the day.

Walking back to the hotel we passed an alley and see a warm hearth, illuminating the night. A collection of tables in the alley heterogeneous dispersion outside the Pozzo ostarie Vecio – The Old Well Pub And of course there is an old well as on the cobblestones. It's late, but the tide dinner, of course, much later in conference here.

We took a table and ask the young Adonis comes from our order what he recommends. He brings homemade pasta, a dish with three different fish, risotto seafood made with champagne and a simple pitcher of the White House. No meal never tasted so delicious king. Let's go back two more times before we left.

Adonis name Andrea. Someone takes a picture with him and when developing, high in the sky above our heads, no surprise, is a full moon.

Of all Italy 's beautiful cities, Venice is the place that has stayed in my heart. Pull on me yet, partly because you can not visit Venice without tripping over a very poignant.

La Serenissima remains a small city built on water, it is now defenseless against the onslaught of the twenty-first century climate change coming down on all us. High tides have flooded Venice forever, but while in the past came flooding half dozen times a year, now occurs forty times. Cherished buildings and monuments are still severely damaged by tidal erosion.

The Italian Government, UNESCO and a charity called Venice Endangered are raising money for restoration and research into a system of gates or barriers that block the tide and save Venice. Plans to far have been very controversial, exorbitantly expensive, and no one is sure you can really do. If you can not do, it is likely that Venice will be the first significant drop in global warming, and the city will be lost.

There will come a generation that only knows the glory that was registered through the Venice Film Travel photos and writings. They will miss the feeling of hitting the water against the prow of the gondola, the gondolier's serenade verismo, the softness of a breeze Venetian dance through the lagoon. As someone who might have missed things myself, I am eternally grateful that Venice has remained standing long enough for me meet her in person.

About the Author

Sue Rauch is a freelance writer who runs www.GrabYourPasssport.com - Online travel guides for the world’s great tourist destinations.

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