Venice
"To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius." – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer, on Venice.
Along the Canals
Piazza de San Marco: the Lion of Venice
The Doge's Palace
The Doge's Palace - Ray Gallucci The bones remain, but flesh is gone, The lungs that breathed, heart pumping strong, The ruling brain that made it great - The Doge’s Palace, left to Fate. Amid the fossils, can you feel The power once it dared to wield, Controlling trade through maritime Predominance of Venice prime? Canals now pump with tourists’ blood To keep alive what once it was. The adage true – “This too shall pass” – Proves memories are all that last. https://www.antarcticajournal.com/poem-the-doges-palace-by-ray-gallucci/ |
Chamber of the Great Council
St. Mark's Basilica
St. Mark's Vaporetto Stop
Murano & Burano
Florence
"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.”
– Virgil Thomson, American composer.
– Virgil Thomson, American composer.
The Baptistry
The David
Let's take a walk...
Fun with signs
Rome
"She had always been fond of history, and in Rome was history in the stones of the street and in the atoms of the sunshine"
-Henry James, author
-Henry James, author
The Vatican
The Forum & Coliseum
Parthenon
Fountains
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls