Venice

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Hotel Outside

From our window

Inside our room

Night Shot of the Church of Santa Maria Del Giglo

This Church was near our hotel

Typical bridge in Venice

Typical side canal

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

An old door

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

Fascinating Censer?

Spectacular Floor

Ponte di Rialto

The Grand Canal from the bridge

Carnival Masks