Back again in Venice, we ventured onto the Piazza San Marco, but I was sadly disappointed.
The light will resonate with anyone who has crossed the Piazza San Marco early on a summer's evening.
Start at the portico walkways that surround the iconic Piazza San Marco.
In Hangzhou, gondolas glide through the man-made canals of Venice Water Town, which boasts its own Piazza San Marco and Doge's Palace.
Alternatively, take a short gondola or ferry ride from the boat stations in front of the Palazzo Ducale, next to Piazza San Marco, to the Hotel Cipriani on Isola Della Guidecca.
The Piazza San Marco is timeless, but the sociology of its tourist population has changed markedly, a leading indicator for sure as to the health of Euroland if not the world.
One shining exception is the Palazzo Mocenigo, a grand 16th-century home near San Marco belonging to Francesca Bortolotto Possati, owner of the Hotel Bauer and Il Palazzo, and newly available to rent.
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He stole the four bronze horses from the basilica of San Marco, destroyed the boat-building capacity of the Arsenale, and demolished a church in Piazza San Marco to build a memorial to himself.
Fra Angelico's best-known work is his series of frescoes at San Marco in Florence, the Dominican convent from which he ventured forth under the aegis of his patron and friend, Cosimo de' Medici.
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The majestic Basilica di San Marco and its grand Campanile bell tower that rises above Piazza San Marco, call to mind the golden age of the Republic of Venice, which ended in the early 18th Century.
The small hotels off the Piazza San Marco rented for five bucks a day, the rooms so hot in August that you stayed up half the night singing and drinking in the Piazza, jammed with college students shouldering rucksacks, decades before wheeled baggage made the scene.
Adelson, typically, was consumed with things large and small: the precise replication of the Campanile di San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs, the tassels on the curtains, the question of whether it was cheaper to rent or buy cranes (he bought), the color of the canals (he ordered them drained and their surface repainted, for a more perfect blue).
Continue towards Campo di Santa Maria del Giglio, an area just west of the Piazza San Marco, where Woody Allen stalked Julia Roberts in the light-hearted comedy Everyone Says I Love You, then turn north to the theatre Teatro La Fenice and the nearby Ponte Maria Callas bridge, dedicated to American-born Greek opera singer Maria Callas who debuted at the theatre in 1947.
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