09/02/2019
with updates & anecdotes from many of travels to many special cities, places and landmarks on earth, hoping to inspire you to take a similar journey of your own.
Venice, or Venezia, covers a group of over 100 islands in a lagoon by the scenic waterfront of the Adriatic sea. It has no roads per se, just canals - linked by over 400 bridges - lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces, topped by the ever-so-popular and historic St. Mark's Basilica [the First picture through the facades]. The basilica offers some stunnig views from the top, including that of the San Marco Piazza (square) below and bylanes leading upto the waterfront [the Second picture as well as the Last picture lit up in night lights].
Also, the horses adorning the basilica's main arch (replica, originals inside) bear some truly remarkable history right from the ancient world. Thought to have been built for Constantinople (the-then capital of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, today's Istanbul), they were still there in 1204 until looted by Venetian forces as part of the sack of the capital in the Fourth Crusade (in fact the horses' heads had to be severed to be transported from Constantinople to Venice and reinstalled back later). The four stallions attained such mythical heights that even Napoleon took it as part of the loot in 1797. Finally returned in 1815, they have been there since then.
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@ Venice, Italy
