Venice rises from the lagoon like a mirage, a city built on wood pilings driven into mud a thousand years ago. There are no cars here. The streets are canals. The buses are boats. Gondolas glide under low bridges while water taxis skip across the Giudecca Canal. St. Mark’s Square floods at high tide, reflecting […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Nature, Sea Sites, Sights, Sights
Padova does not compete with Venice or Verona for attention. It does not need to. This ancient city holds some of the most important artistic and scientific treasures in Italy. The Scrovegni Chapel contains a cycle of frescoes by Giotto that changed the course of Western painting, and people travel from across the world to […]