Giulio, proud son of Venezia that he is, found it amusing that I was so interested in the municipal services operations of Venice. Apparently none of their prior guests found photo ops in the trash and recycling collection systems of Venice. He was concerned that all of the beautiful sites that his home city had to offer were taking second seat to municipal services.
Certainly Venice is beautiful. Everyone knows that. We’ve all seen the pictures in tour books, on the Internet, in movies, and in the pictures that our traveling friends bring home. Just to reassure Giulio and everyone else that I haven’t over looked the beauty of Venice I offer the following.
Venetian Balcony
Laundry is hung in he open air to dry.
One of the few gardens visible from the Grand Canal.
The open air Farmers’ Market lies length Grand Canal.
Venice is a city of 120 islands connected by foot bridges. Most have a church and a central square. This is but one of those churches.
Basilica Santa Maria della Salute viewed from the top of the Campanille at Piazza San Marco
View of Venice from the Campanille at Piazza San Marco. Note the Alps in the background.
The Venetian Gentleman watched our group from his Palazzo for a bit, then smiled, waved and bowed before closing his window.
The apartment where we stayed along the San Polo Canal. Our window was the one just below the closed shade on the right.
I found the garbage collection pretty darn interesting myself 🙂 Everyone takes pictures of the pretty things, but unique ways of collecting garbage isn’t so often captured and I enjoyed it!