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Venice

La Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic, captivating city of canals and palaces - or merely a floating rip-off merchant bursting with tourists... Call her what you will, Venice is simply unique. For a thousand years the city led an independent existence as one of the most enduring mercantile sea powers in history. Today the brilliance and influence have long since faded, leaving a town of tarnished glories that's out of time and out of place, so achingly beautiful and complete it's hard not to look for evidence of props. If you get caught up in the never-ending flow of visitors tramping the narrow main thoroughfares it can be the epitome of hell. Step off the main drag, however, and you'll discover the subdued, shabby charm of the real Venice, whose baroque backstreet churches are framed by lines of washing flapping in the breeze

 

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The Grand Canal
 

 

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