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Cruise Ports Mediterranean Europe - Venice, Italy (PDF Chapter)
This is the Venice chapter from Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Mediterranean Eu-rope guidebook.
Imagine the audacity of building a city of marble palaces on a lagoon. Rather than surren-dering to acque alte (high tides) like others might, Venetians flooded the world with vivid painting, baroque music, modern opera, spice-route cuisine and bohemian-chic fashions.
- admire the Byzantine blitz of golden mosaics inside Basilica di San Marco
- maps
- browse boutique-lined backstreets to Museo Fortuny, the palace fashion house whose gowns freed women from corsets
- getting to and from the port
- pause atop wooden Ponte dell’Accademia for Grand Canal photo ops
- food & drink
Coverage includes: Sights, Activities, Shopping, Eating, Drinking & Night-life.
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Cruise Ports Mediterranean Europe - Venice, Italy (PDF Chapter)
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