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AngelsSnowboard
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posted 02-14-2002 12:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AngelsSnowboard   Click Here to Email AngelsSnowboard     Edit/Delete Message
i went to venice 2 summers ago, and visited this incredible castle there. i don't know the name, but i remember hearing the lost palace, don't know if that's right. also, i think that's where the bridge of sighs is. umm, it's in the main piazza of venice if that helps, thanx.

ipflo
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posted 02-14-2002 03:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ipflo   Click Here to Email ipflo     Edit/Delete Message
if it is on the main place of Venice (the san marco place) it is the palace of the doge, the ruler of the venetian republic.

you can find some info of this palace at:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Doges_Palace.html
http://www.venetia.it/

and you can also search on www.google.com

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Peter Esser
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posted 02-14-2002 04:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peter Esser   Click Here to Email Peter Esser     Edit/Delete Message
Venice is really great! I love this town since I choose a Venezian tale as my final examination. My task was to illustrate a book of a german writer, Gertrud von le Fort.

I remember quite well that I had no inspiration about the stuff, so one evening I decided to go to Venice, loaded my car and simply started off the same evening (I was a student that time…) - without remembering that I had to cross the alps. Well, it was in the middle of november and I had no snow tyres. So I left the car in Bavaria and continued the journey by train.

When you arive in Venice you leave the station directly in front of the Canal Grande – and you are in another time, in another world. It was easy to find a cheap hotel in november.

I took a vaporetto (little motorship, like a bus) down the Canal Grande with its illuminated palaces, right to San Marco, the huge orientale basilica and the Doge’s Palace.

Even though Venice is a city of palaces the Doge's Palace is the only building named "Palace" - Palazzo Ducale.

Meanwhile it had become completely dark… and I lost my way in the small "calle" (alleyways) and bridges without taking care, when sudenly I found myself just in front of a precious marble white Renaissance church – santa Maria dei Miracoli (St. Mary of the Miracles)…

But I’m loosing my way in the descriptions…

I just wanted to add that in my opinion the Doge’s Palace ist no castle because it isn’t a fortified building.
But who cares? It is absolutely great. Do you remember the enormous paintings? Wooow!

[This message has been edited by Peter Esser (edited 02-14-2002).]

Peter Esser
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posted 02-14-2002 05:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peter Esser   Click Here to Email Peter Esser     Edit/Delete Message
Three Venice-illustrations…
http://www.peteresser.de/aquarell/aqua_1.htm

… and the following two. The third (and miserably scanned) picture is the church Sta Maria dei Miracoli.

All times are PT (US)

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