Yes, I know photographs of La Serenissima, Bride of the Sea, are everywhere. However, I thought, for my travelogue this week, I’d throw in just a few of my own photographs taken on a short visit there ten years ago . . .
Sea Approach – note the snow-capped Alps in the background
The Doge’s Palace and the sea landing for St.Mark’s Square
Doge’s Palace and the Bridge Of Sighs
San Giorgio Maggiore from St.Mark’s Square
The rowers in the lagoon operate from a standing position
Sea entrance to one of the minor canals
The Grand Canal from St.Mark’s Square
Front of St. Mark’s Basilica from St.Mark’s Square
Al fresco entertainment in St. Mark’s Square
St.Mark’s Square with Basilica and Campanile
Gondolas for hire on the Grand Canal
A Venetian Gondola in a side canal
A canal-side ambulance station … “Aiutami”
A Jeff Koons ‘Balloon Dog’ sculpture on the Grand Canal
Just one of the many palaces on the Grand Canal
Lovely photographs. Looks like a beautiful place to visit. Would love to go one day.
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Thank you, A. I’m sure you will.
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Nice photos Roland. Venice is not a place I have visited as I have heard mixed reviews. Is it worth a visit?
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Thanks for responding, Davy. Certainly it’s a beautiful city, but it’s also very difficult indeed to find a time to visit when it’s not flooded with tourists as well as sea water. Having made that one brief visit, I’d certainly now prefer a visit to the west coast of Scotland, to our own Lake District or the Yorkshire Moors and Dales.
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The tourist issue was the one that had surfaced from friends who had visited. I am like you now Roland, at home with space and a bit of solitude.
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Cheaper too, Davy.
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Now that I like Roland.
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How stunning. I can imagine how lovely it is to live there
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It is. Thank you, Eugenia.
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Bill
Lovely photos brings back such happy memories for us! You cannot possibly judge such a beautiful city on one brief visit though. We spent 2 breaks of a few days and explored on foot and vaporetto taking in so many quiet canals and squares. Congatulations on including the island and church of San Giorgio Maggiore, it showed the window of our room. The vaporetto stopped right outside.
Janet
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Thank you for responding, Janet. I remembered you’d had stayed twice on that island.
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I love these photos. What the traveller sees is always so entertaining. I particularly like the balloon dog and the water ambulance. The clouds in that last photo of St. Mark’s Square are marvelous.
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Many thanks for your comments, Roger. Jeff Koon’s balloon animals are produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. I read that one of his balloon dogs is now the most expensive art work by a living artist ever to sell at auction, having sold for $58.4 million. Better start practising with those party balloons – just a lot of puff required and you’ll be ‘in the money’.
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More money than in poetry. I guess they don’t want to buy the film rights for my sonnets!
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What you need is a deal with Koons to have one of them inscribed onto one of his balloons!
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What lovely photos – really capture the City!
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Thank you, Cate.
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