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St. Mark’s Bones and His Basilica
You’d think that the whole “rest in peace” thing would apply to saints even more than to the rest of us. Apparently not.
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Putridariums
These look like toilets, don’t they? Oh, but they’re much worse.
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The Doge’s Palace, Venice: Light and Dark
A typical interrogation would start with the accused standing on the raised platform in the vaulted torture chamber.
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A Deep Dive Into the Piazza San Marco, Venice
This is not just a square that you cross to get to other things.
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Venetian Riches and Venetian Rags: La Fenice Opera House and the Jewish Ghetto
There was great wealth flowing through the town while the Jews were made to suffer in squalor.
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Venetian Vignettes
To get a real sense of Venice, get lost in its many neighborhoods.
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A Two-Week Trip to Italy, Organized for You!
There’s no point in making you recreate the wheel, after all.
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That Freshly Foreign Feeling
The musical cadence of Italian voices echoing down the canal lulled me to sleep.
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Graves and Glass in the Venetian Lagoon
These little islands are easy to get to and are even more walkable than Venice itself.
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Your chance to see abstract and surreal art and explore a Grand Canal home at the same time.