Our cruise boat is docked in Venezia, so we got to spend more time there today.
Lots of our new friends hadn’t been inside the Doge’s Palace, so we showed them the way there. The palace, built in 1340, is one of the main landmarks in Venezia. It’s a Gothic style. The Doge was considered the leader of Venezia, and was elected for life. The Palace was not only the residence for the Doge but also for governing and justice. There is even a jail dungeon there, with ‘bridge of sighs’ where the prisoners would have to walk from the justice rooms to the dungeons, taking their last look at the outside.
After we left our new friends for their palace visit we decided to explore the streets of Venezia. There are a maze of narrow streets (like the one on the picture) and passageways that lead from the piazzas (that’s what they call town squares), and lots of bridges to cross over the canals. We found it quite interesting to see how they would keep old walls and just build onto them to make a new home or shop, instead of tearing things down.
In the afternoon our ship cruised all around the Venezia islands so we could see all the places, and lady was telling us all about what we saw. She told us the Grand Canal the runs through most of Venezia is kind of an ‘S’ shape and links all the tiny canals together and meets the lagoon at either end, We learned that Venezia is quite large and has lots of industry, like fishing, shipbuilding (small boats) and used to have a busy merchant port.
Venezia might have water all around and a different way of travelling around the city but they have all the same things as other cities,
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