Goodbye Florence – Hello Venice!
Venice is unlike any city. No roads. No vehicles. No wheeled anything. Just beautiful canals that weave through the 95 islands that comprise Venice. The city has this bizarre quietness to it since there are no vehicles – which is awesome.
First things first, Tony started our endeavors in Venice with of course lunch and then a walking tour. Our first stop was Fran Church where at the high alter is placed the painting Assumption by Titian. The painting is really cool because of its different “levels” – heaven and earth.
Our walk didn’t really last too long because it was ridiculously freezing out (December isn’t thee best time to visit Italy… just a heads up) but we still got to see the famous Rialto Bridge, Rialto markets, Piazza San Marco, and outside the San Marco Basilica.
(Piazzo San Marco)
(San Marco Basilica)
(Rialto Bridge, above, view from Rialto bridge, below)
Other miscellaneous Venice pictures:
Since there are no streets/vehicles Venice’s form of public transportation is obviously boats. So to get back to the hotel we took a 40 minute boat ride down the Grand Canal. Like I mentioned earlier, it was frigid outside and needless to say only three of us toughed it out and sat on the deck the entire ride (the North Dakotan and the two from Michigan…we know how to handle our weather!). Here is a pic of Noel and I bearing the cold:
Since this was our final evening in Italy the group went out for “The Last Supper.” This time I had tortiglioni with duck (I really should have taken more pictures of what I ate… oops). The rest of the evening was spent with drinking wine at the hotel and reminiscing about the amazing semester all of us just experienced abroad.
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