|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Night Shot of the Church of Santa Maria Del Giglo
|
This Church was near our hotel |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All streets lead to San Marco |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Piazza San Marco from above |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The facade of the front door of the Basilica |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Piazza San Marco flooding at high tide |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The arches outside the Doge's Palace where we waited to get in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outside of the Doge's Palace |
Near the top of the building you can see the false floors where the real business took place. They look like a double set of portals. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
View from a window of the Doge's Palace |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Another old door in the Golden Staircase of the Doge's Palace |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Main Entrance to the Palace |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Santa Maria Della Salute
|
In October 1630, the Senate decreed that if the city was delivered from the currently raging plague that had killed about a third of Venice's population, then a new church would be built and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inside Santa Maria Della Salute |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Grand Canal from the bridge |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|