Venice, Italy

So we arrived in Venice, Italy on Monday, we had that evening to do what ever we wanted, but I had to stay at the hotel to prepare for the interview that never happened. However, on Tuesday we toured Venice for about 9+ hours. That is a LONG Time, it was rivaling the amount of walking I did in China three years ago. In Venice Italy they either get around by boat (gondolas traditionally) or on foot. There are no driving roads in Venice. There are hundreds of connecting small canals and hundreds of bridges over the canals. Venice has multiple names here are a couple: The Floating City, The City of Canals, and The Romantic City. It is a dying city. Thirty years ago there were 120,000 citizens. Today there is only about 60,000, and it loses approximately 1000 citizens a year. It is a VERY big tourist destination. Some days 50,000 tourists flood the city, just for the day. The Glass industry is the industry Venice is best known for. Everything has to be shipped into Venice, and all the trash shipped out of Venice. Here are some pictures from, Venice Italy.

Me with the Main Canal behind me

 

A gondola

 

The outside of the Duke's Chapel

 

The Palace and Church Square

 

This is a video of the bronze men ringing the bell

 

The Main Canal

 

A Mosaic at the Duke's Chapel, the whole inside of the chapel is covered in Mosaics

 

The outside of the Duke's Chapel, which is the size of a Cathedral

 

Our Professor and his wife on the main bridge crossing the Main Canal (They are in the center of the picture, left of the banner)

 

Me on the Main Bridge crossing the Main Canal

 

Gondolas docked on the Main Canal

 

The Main Bridge crossing the Main Canal

 

A neat architectural building in Venice

 

One of the smaller Canals in Venice

 

Another canal in Venice

 

Canal in Venice

 

Small Canal