Wow!I love Venice, the city of Romance!
Furthermore, we have a tour guide, Gabrielle's mum friend who is a priest! 8 which mean that we don't have to worry about direction.
He is so good- in the sense of he know exactly what youngster nowadays looking for!- Best spot for photos! =P
He even helped us to find the best angle!LOL
We woke up quite late so our plan to watch sunrise failed!
Our journey is normally on a public-transit bus-boat called a vaporetto.
As we waited for the boat, the scenery attracted us! Venice is a barrage on the senses... water, boats, tourists with luggage, locals with briefcases, old buildings, modern bustle. We relax, enjoy a lot just by looking at it!
The first station is the Burano!
I am totally falling in love with it!
Many international magazines include Burano among the top 10 most colorful cities in the world
All visitors of Burano remain intrigued by the many colours of houses that are reflected into the green waters of channels, by the Oblique Bell Tower, by the tranquility and the calmness with which the elderly ladies embroider by their tombolo, while they are laughing and chatting in squares among them. It seems to be in paradise. Children who dart freely with their bicycles, balconies with multicolored flowers, fishermen who put up fresh fish from their traditional boats.
The different colours of the houses, which today rappresent the our island main feature, at a previous time was useful to delimit the properties. Notwithstanding an ancient legend narrates that fishermen painted their houses to see them from long distance when they were far away for fishing.
Then, we went to St Mark Basilia
Right behind St. Mark’s Basilica in terms of actual attractions worth visiting in Venice is the Doge’s Palace.
The palace also housed the city’s court, and convicted prisoners would take a one-way trip across a tiny bridge into the prison in a building across a tiny canal.
There are two major highlights on a tour of the Palazzo Ducale. One is the truly massive painting of “Paradise” by Tintoretto which covers one gigantic wall in the Council Hall.
The other highlight is walking across the famous Bridge of Sighs – the only way you’ll get to walk through this passageway is by going on the tour of the Doge’s Palace. This tiny bridge connects the palace with the prison, and the bridge leads from what was once the court room directly into the prison.
The Bridge of Sighs got its name for the sighs prisoners would emit upon seeing their beloved city through the bridge’s tiny windows for the last time before descending into the window-less dungeons. Many never saw daylight again.
Sunset bathes the buildings in gold, and nighttime brings its own magic.
Then, we had our lunch in one of the curch in Accademia, where the priest studied。
We had our own time wondering around, taking photos, enjoying good food and all.
We had our own time wondering around, taking photos, enjoying good food and all.
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