It's Venice!
As promised I'm going to share some of my photos from our day trip to Venice from Vicenza over the long Memorial Day weekend. First, to set the stage, here is some information about Venice with help from my Rick Steves "Italy" book. Venice is comprised of 100 islands connected together by 400 bridges. The city was founded in a lagoon 1,500 years. During the Middle Ages the city was an important go-between for East-West trade and became very important and wealthy. The city's importance dwindled with the discovery of America and other routes to the Orient. The wealth accumulated prior to this decline funded continued high living and partying into the 17th and 18th centuries. When the bones of Saint Mark were smuggled into the city in AD 828, Venice gained religious importance and it's most important square is called Piazza San Marco. Today, tourism is the city's life blood. To get to Venice we took the train from Vicenza. It was a pretty qui...