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Visiting the Veneto
The last time I went to Italy as a teenager in the 60's with my parents English, they had found the package tour cheap. The hotel was an oasis of fellow Brit tourists and the strangeness of the Italian food was the issue. Do not venture beyond the resort, except to go to the city to the memories of bad taste. No one considers that few minutes drive from the famous historic city filled with priceless art. My parents did not know, and not would have risked if they had unknown territory. Years later, I regretted the missed opportunity, and I promised to return one day. Now I have fifty years and along with two friends, traveled to Italy to fulfill my promise. The first stop is Italy 's Veneto, La Serenissima … Venice.
I leave the Santa Lucia Railway Station and behold the Grand Canal, alive with ships and boats going about their business Venetian gondolas and boats in taxis and buses … you and me. A first immediate excitement rises in me, and it banishes the "jet lag."
We nest our cases roll on the Scalzi bridge. A five minute walk from the station leads to the Hotel Marin. The place is not fancy, not a canal, but came very recommended. The rooms are clean and comfortable our wonderful stay includes a continental breakfast of freshly brewed coffee dark, crusty 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. It will slow you down. If you 're lucky you are arrested in their tracks. The city is notable architecture, palaces, churches, and art … No more searching for her, that's where you go. While wandering about the streets and stay on bridges, the famous Venetian imagine that could have delayed there before … Marco Polo, Casanova, and the red priest himself, Antonio Vivaldi, announcing his orchestra San Marcos girls', to present their last concert.
They soon realize how little the city has changed over the centuries. The Basilica of San Marco and San Giorgio Maggiore, or the Ducal Palace, depicted in the painting of the fourteenth century some famous, and the image will be exactly as 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 start of the show. The canvases are huge, bold images of biblical scenes interpretations: The Adoration of the Magi, The Slaughter of the Innocents The Annunciation … every scene he emerges from the darkness, illuminated by a light source invisible glowing somewhere in the painting. We're baffled, happy we have chosen this concert of many that take place every night all over Venice.
A trio performs Vivaldi … violin, flute and soprano charming. We maintain happy for half an hour. The performance ends, and not before time, I think, and everyone rises 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 intermediate.
We followed the crowd up a grand staircase to an even greater beauty salon. At the top of the stairs, a man hands each of us a smart mirror polished wood, double handled. It is evident that bottom pictures were just a fraction of the collection of Tintoretto. The rest is here, dozens of them, not just wall coverings, but all the ceiling, reminiscent of the ceilings details we've seen in the Ducal Palace. The mirrors are to save twenty minutes of pain in the neck. Venetian glass makers invented the mirror in 1508, so this is how people see these magnificent ceilings when they were new … images reflected in strike must have been the equivalent MTV sixteenth century … high technology of the time.
Walking back to the hotel we passed an alley and see a welcoming hearth, illuminating the night. A collection heterogeneous dispersion tables in the alley outside the Pozzo Ostaria Vecio – The Old Well Pub And of course there is an old well as on the cobblestones. It's late, but tide, of course, dinner rolls much later 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, a seafood risotto made with champagne and a simple jar of the white house. banquet n king never tasted so delicious. We will return two times before we left.
Adonis name is Andrea. Someone takes a picture with him and when it develops in the sky above our heads, it's not a surprise is a full moon.
The whole of Italy 's wonderful cities, Venice is the place that has stayed in my heart. Pull on me yet, partly because you can visit Venice without tripping over a very poignant.
The Serene is still a small city built on water, it is now defenseless against the onslaught of the twenty-first century climate change coming down on us all. Always high tides have flooded Venice, but in the past, floods were half dozen times a year, occurs forty times today. cherished buildings and monuments are being severely damaged by tidal erosion.
The Italian government UNESCO and a charity called the Venice in Peril are raising money for restoration and research into a system of gates or barriers that block the tide and save Venice. Plans so far have been 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 recorded on film in Venice, photos and travel journals written. They will miss the feeling of water hitting the bow of the gondola, the verismo the gondolier serenade, soft breeze of a dance of the Venetian lagoon. As someone who might have missed things myself, I am eternally grateful that Venice has remained standing long enough for me to meet her in person.
