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Venice

Venice, the "City of Bridges", stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon. Thanks to the fact that the Venetian Republic was a major sea power and a staging area for the Crusades, as well as a very important centre of commerce (especially the spice trade) and art in the Renaissance, Venice has become the beautiful city we can visit nowadays.

Among the many places to see, Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, the principal square of Venice, called by Napoleon "the drawing room of Europe". Piazza San Marco is also one of the few great urban spaces in a Europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic, which is confined to Venice's waterways. As the central landmark and gathering place for Venice, Piazza San Marco is extremely popular with tourists, photographers, and pigeons.
The Doge's Palace, a gothic palace largely constructed from 1309 to 1424 on 9th century origins, is another must-see of Venice. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice and contained the offices of a number of political institutions, arranged around a central courtyard.
Not to be forgotten in a visit of Venice are also the Rialto Bridge, the oldest bridge of the Grand Canal, as well as the Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri in Italian), one of many bridges built in the 16th century. Its peculiarity is that it passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge name, given by Lord Byron in the 19th century, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice out the window before being taken down to their cells. A local legend says that lovers will be assured eternal love if they kiss on a gondola at sunset under the bridge.

Moreover, you can get theatre ticket to attend an Italian opera, or you can easily reach some little islands located in the Venetian Lagoon, such as Burano, Torcello and Murano, the last one famous for its glass making, particularly lampworking.