Rio di San Barnaba

The Rio di San Barnaba, a nice canal in Dorsoduro, which starts on the Canal Grande, near the Ca' Rezzonico and will run alongside the Campo San Barnaba, and Santa Maria del Carmelo (Carmini).

Yacht on the Zaterre

Most of the yachts moored in Venice are not of the better taste. This one for a change is somehow different, old style, not too big, nice design... It's Johnny Depp's!

Grazie to Alain Hamon - Destination Italie

Night on the Canal

The Grand Canal (Italian : Canal Grande, Venetian : Canalasso/Canalazzo) curves along the very heart of Venice. It is indeed the geographical as well as the symbolic center of the city, and to everyone being along its banks it gives the sensation of being in a unique landscape.

San Lorenzo

Fondalenta de l'Osmarin, not far from San Giorgio dei Greci (Castello), on a house, is this large relief of San Lorenzo (Lawrence of Rome). The saint is here represented (he often is) with the grill on which he was marthired around year 258.

Narrow Canal

A narrow canal in San Polo.

Vittorio Emanuele II

On the Riva degli Schiavoni, Vittorio Emanuele II, il "Padre della Patria", sword in hand, seems to be on his way to Piazza san Marco.

Santa Maria della Misericordia

Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia and Abbazia della Misericordia, in the Cannaregio Sestiere.

Babel Venice

Such a touristy city, so much visitors on a so small area... Something of a one story Babel Tower.

Lion

"Fainthearted animals move about in
herds. The lion walks alone in the desert.
Let the poet always walk thus."
Alfred de Vigny

Lost Alley

A blind alley in Cannaregio, so well hiddeen that I'm sure people here don't see a visitor in weeks...

Campo San Silvestro

Night stroll on Campo San Silvestro, Sestiere San Polo.

Bacareto da Lele

A nice place to have a glass of wine and something to pick at, near San Nicola da Tolentino.

Rowers

"There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain" Aeschylus

Corte del Fontego

A small corte next to the large campo Santa Margherita.

Squero della Sensa

I's an old Venetian "squero", some say one of the oldest shipyards in the City. Nobody knows if it will survive long. I've heard that its fate could be sealed yet.
Maybe some erudite visitor or friend of this blog could enlighten us about it..

Bartolomeo Colleoni

Meet Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400-1475), military commander of the Republic and a great war leader. The statue was made by Andrea Verrocchio (1435-1488), prominent Florentine sculptor. The statue is displayed on a very high piedestal.
Here is the story that I've heard about this statue : Colleoni, very rich and at the end of his life, wanted to bequeath his fortune to Venice, provided a statue of him was erected "in front of San Marco". The Doge had to deny such a conceited request. But he finally got the huge leg by placing the statue not in front of "Basilica" San Marco, but in front of of the "scuola" di San Marco - which yet remains a wonderful place - on campo San Giovanni e Paolo in the Castello Sestiere. Other pictures of the Campo

Water and bricks

A quiet canal, near the Madona dell Orto, in Cannaregio.

Riva del Vin

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . .
White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Venice"

Capital

The top part of one of the 36 Doge's palace lower columns.

Rio della Pieta

This canal named Rio della Pieta starts on the right of La Pieta Church, on the Riva degli Schiavoni, runs along the Scuola di San Giorgio, becomes then Rio di San Lorenzo and comes out on the Fondamente Nove. Crossing Castello from North to South, it's mainly used for freight traffic and knows a significant activity.

The balustrade which surrounds Sansovino's Logetta is closed by a bronze gate, open during the day. When it's closed, i's possible to admire this work by Antonio Gai in 1737.





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Heart of Venice, San Marco's Basilica, the "Golden Church" has been built from the 9th Century to shelter the relics of St Marco the Evangelist, brought from Alexandria in 828 by two merchants of Torcello and Malamocco.

Wandering around Venice

Not all who wander are lost.
JRR Tolkien