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Venice Twilight (time taken to leave Venice)

    From Florence to Venice, about 300 kilometers away, due to start the morning, when the weather is still good, from time to time to also inundated with rain, coupled with a traffic jam on the highway until the afternoon before I arrived near the periphery of Watertown , a simple lunch after the 2:00 ferry ride, we have embarked on a Venetian island of land. But then the sky is blue sky and white clouds in the world, from Italy, after we came, very few glimpsed the sun shine in Montreal at the moment, warm, and our mood is naturally cheerful, together with the weather again.
   
Venice and I remember a few years ago, the same as, or as always, the excitement of the. This was built in 452 AD, the ancient city in Italy, because of water known, the entire city divided into waterways from 177 to 118 islets, and facilitate the integration between them is the 401 bridges, winding Water Alley, mobile The Shiba, just like a floating in the ocean waves on a romantic dream, the kind of poetic, so that a total of less than 8 square kilometers of town, but it has attracted a daily average of 10000 visitors around the world.
   
With regard to Venice, rookie will be issued two sets of pictures. Images recorded in this group is from the port to Piazza San Marco in Venice, customs bit by bit, during which the focus of the attractions are: Bridge of Sighs, the Governor's Palace, flying lion column, the Piazza San Marco and St. Mark's Basilica.

    Bridge of Sighs, linked to the Government House, and next to the dungeon with a very famous Bridge of Sighs. Modeling the bridge is an early Baroque style, was housing-like, the upper dome cover, closed very JANSEN, only one side of the canal there are two little windows. Bridge of Sighs is an arcade bridge, erected in the Governor's Palace, between the river and prisons, when prisoners tried at the Government House after the felons were taken to a dungeon, it may be this farewell to this world, in the past toward the execution ground on death row before execution to be followed in This dense gas-tight bridge, on death row, who can only look at the sky through the little window, think of his family under the bridge of the ship waiting for goodbye, have mixed feelings rise in my heart, could not help sighing voice issued - and then go forward would have to Farewell to all the earth.
   
The Governor's Palace, former residence of the Heads of State of the Kingdom of Venice, is a large seat of parliament and government. Rigorous, and the Governor's Palace, ornate, pink and white marble. Was built in 814 years, in a Byzantine-style architecture, as encountered many fires, and now the building is built in the 15th century Gothic architecture.
   
Flying Lion Column, legends The Merchant of Venice in the stolen remains of Saint Mark, and back to Venice and saw the sky flying lion, Venetian think that this is the oracle, is God sent to the city of Venice, the protection of God, and the whole Venice, everywhere the winged lion statue, and this at St. Mark's Cathedral next to the column on the Governor's Palace Square, the flying lion is their representative.
   
Piazza San Marco, also known as the central square of Venice, Venice has always been the political, religious and traditional festivals of the public activity center. Piazza San Marco from the Doge's Palace, St. Mark's Cathedral, St. Mark's bell tower, the new residence of the old administrative building, linking the two buildings of the Napoleonic wing of the building, St. Mark's Cathedral and St. Mark's square bell tower books Hall and other buildings as well as the Grand Canal of Venice, surrounded by a rectangular square, about 170 meters, 80 meters wide and the east, west width of 55 meters. Place around the buildings are beautiful Renaissance buildings. 1797 Napoleon occupied the Venice after praise St. Mark's Square was "the most beautiful drawing room of Europe" and "the world's most beautiful square," Plaza side of the Napoleonic wing of the building is that he ordered the construction of the ballroom.
   
St. Mark's Cathedral, built in AD 829, rebuilt in 1043-1071, when it was once the largest church in medieval Europe, is the Venice of the classic architecture, it is also a rich collection of works of art treasures. Through the Byzantine-style church buildings, was the Greek cross, overlying 5 hemispherical dome, in order to melt Byzantine, Gothic and Islamic style, the Renaissance style of various genres into an integrated whole of art. Church of the front length 51.8 meters, there are 5 edges arched Romanesque door. The top of Oriental and Gothic steeples and various marble statues, reliefs and flower-shaped pattern. Collection of golden bronze horse body and a real horse with big, complete with God-shaped, vividly. Church has been called the "Golden Cathedral." St. Mark's, but the "New Testament • Mark," the author of martyrdom in Egypt in 67 BC. 828 years, the two wealthy merchants of Venice at the time the Governor's behest, succeeded in the mummified St. Mark's will be out to steal from the Alexander and transported back to Venice, today kept in the St. Mark's Basilica, under the great altar.