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Category Archives: Grand Canal
#88 Little girl waiting
#84 The (most) amazing waterway
• Grand Canal (“Canalazzo” as locals call it since ever) has always been, from the earliest centuries of the venetian republic, the city’s main waterway and, beyond that, the most important and coveted stage for the most influential and powerful … Continue reading
#81 Ponte di Rialto
• Compared to the centuries-old history of Venice, Rialto Bridge can be considered one of the youngest symbols, though perhaps the most famous. What is today one of the most well known landmarks in the world, was born as a … Continue reading
#80 The heart of the power
• Cà Foscari (last at right), the palace of the Foscari family, one of the oldest and most prestigious families of the history of Venice, a forge of doges and leading (and controversial as well) political figures of the Venetian Republic … Continue reading
#51 Il Canalazzo
• Grand Canal, Canal Grande or, as locals still call it nowadays, “il Canalazzo”. The famous waterway was once the commercial highway of Venice; ships coming from all major ports of the Mediterranean, loaded with spices from far East and other precious … Continue reading
#44 Reflections
• Nothing more of the gondola is the best known symbol of Venice; thousands of paintings and an infinitely greater number of photographs has it as subject and, naturally, it is the object of desires of the majority of tourists … Continue reading
#39 Three boys on a boat
• Three friends coming home from school; they are young, they are happy……to be together ………and see the life ahead of them. I watch them and I see myself, my dreams, my life. I took the picture this afternoon, but … Continue reading
#29 Ladies in black
• Gondolas were once the undisputed dominators of the lagoon, and the whole town’s life was in sync with the slow pace of these strange and elegant boats. Difficult to conduct but at the same time sinuous and agile, able … Continue reading
#25 You can’t miss this….
• A tour on a gondola is in the wish-list of (almost?) all Venice visitors and it surely is an exciting and unusual experience; a touch of extra folklore can be added by a gondolier singing “O sole mio” which, … Continue reading