The Canal Grande curves through Venice in a reverse-S shape for 3.8 km, from the Santa Lucia railway station to the Bacino di San Marco. It is the city’s main thoroughfare and its most theatrical stage. The canal is lined with 170 palaces built between the 13th and 18th centuries. No road runs alongside it. […]
The longest Gothic cathedral in Europe stretches over 170 metres from its west front to the eastern Lady Chapel, a testament to the ambition and faith of its medieval builders. Winchester Cathedral is one of the greatest churches in the world, a repository of over a thousand years of English history. It was here that […]
Categories: Religious Monuments, Sights, Sights, United Kingdom