Italy: Venice

I certainly hope everyone enjoyed our time in Milan! Italy is so full of art and culture. I would like us now to spend some time in Venice. Venice is a beautiful city in the northeast part of Italy. The country is made up of 118 islands. Canals and bridges keep this beautiful city together, and many travel by boat in this city.





The Grand Canal is a large Canal that runs through Venice and is the source of a lot of the transportation that occurs in the city. There are four bridges in Venice that go across this canal. One of those bridges is the Ponte dell'Accademia or the Accademia Bridge. This bridge crosses near the southern part of the canal.  It was built in the mid 1800s during Austrian dominion, and then rebuilt in 1933.

There are so many museums in Venice, so we must visit one of them! Since I'm sure I've already bored you enough with the art and history museums, I've decided to pick one that's a little different. This is the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo. We will have a great chance to see the history of fashion and how fashion has changed throughout time in Italy. It examines clothing as well as room settings. I will certainly be interesting to see how human daily aesthetic tastes have changed throughout history.

Finally, we couldn't possibly leave a city in Italy without visiting at least on site belonging to the Roman Catholic Church! This is St. Mark's Basilica, which is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Venice. It is a beautiful example of Byzantine architecture and is one of the most well known buildings in the city. It was completed in 1617 but was original part of the Doge's palace. It did not belong to the city as a cathedral until 1807.