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Italy - Susan's picks from Venice, Naples, Sorrento, and Pompei
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Venice - Plaza San Marco, Rialto bridge, and church of San Polo
Porters transporting us and our luggage to our B&B in Venice. The only taxis in Venice are water taxis. Our B&B actually had a clothes washer we could use. And after four days we already had enough laundry to take advantage. Tidal waters have benn unkind to this door as to so many others in Venice. Finding one&s way is aided by numerous signs such as the one at the left for "Parrochia Di S. Stefano." Vaporetto water taxis from near St. Mark&s Square. Santa Maria della Salute across the entrance to the Grand Canal. This vendor&s wares outside Piazza San Marco in Venice are only a bit more gaudy than the others.
At the entrance to Piazza San Marco in Venice the lancer stands atop a pillar returned as spoils of the Crusades from Constantinople. The Doge&s Palace is at the right. Basilica San Marco and the Campanile, Piazza San Marco, Venice Basilica San Marco and the Campanile from the west-end collonade of Piazza San Marco, Venice Basilica San Marco Venice. Originally just a chapel for the Doge&s Palace, right rear. Fred and Susan outside Basilica San Marco, Venice. Though varied in color, the marble column choices are left-right symmetric.
St. Mark&s and Doge&s Palace, Venice Bronze horses are copies of those raided from Constantinople Pricey Venetian art glass at a shop on the Collonade, St. Mark&s Piazza St. Mark&s pigeons may be "flying rats" but feding them is great fun for kids. Going under the Accademia Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice Gondoliers on the Grand Canal at sunset, Venice
The Lady Chapel (starboard apse) at S. Polo church, Venice Ponte Di Rialto, the bridge of shops. One of the two bridges over the Grand Canal, Venice. Looking North from the Ponte di Rialto over Venice&s Grand Canal Venice roofline from one of the narrow streets Shops and tourists line the paths to Ponte di Rialto, Venice
Naples - Vesuvius, Pompei, Sorento
This next row is courtesy of Bruce Dewald, from Colorado
At the cameo factory (i.e., salesroom) Naples from Vesuvius Vesuvius from the bus Climbing Vesuvius; the opposite wall and the basin floor are left from the Pompei explosion The crater from the more recent explosion
Naples harbor (Dewald) Climbing Vesuvius (Dewald) Vesuvius crater (Dewald) Mt. Etna in Sicily, looming over city of Siracusa Sunset, Straits of Messina
Lighthouse on the jetty, port of Naples. From ground to beacon tip is about 22 meters. Fortress above Naples city and harbor Amalfi Coast south of Naples Villa clings to cliff in Sorrento Mt. Vesuvius and Bay of Naples, from Sorrento
Seaside cliffs at Sorrento Not-so-modest family home on the winding road to Sorrento Susan, Vesuvius, and the Bay of Naples St. Francis church in Sorrento, decorated for a wedding Roses in Sorrento public garden
Alley and shops in Sorrento Dolls for sale in Sorrento Lemon tree rootstock is hardier than orange, so orange limbs are grafted to lemon tree in farm above Sorrento Ocean view from the olive, lemon, and cheese farm above Sorrento Susan&s guide Gina watches demonstrator make fresh cheese
Steps, columns, and a decorated wall in Pompei, dug out of the ash that fell in 79 AD Perhaps this was this a conversation pit in Pompei Some of the remaining wall and ceiling decorations in Pompei Vesuvius looms over a street of shops in Pompei
Pompeians were asphixiated by gases and later lost in drifts of volcanic ash. Their fat and watery parts soaked into the ash, leaving cavities. Archeologists filled these cavities with plaster to make dramatic images. Vesuvius dominates the western skyline from the forum in Pompei. The eruption in 79 AD had been presaged by an earthquake in 62 AD. Much of the forum had been rebuilt in the interim. Susan posing before Vesuvius (five miles away) in the forum of Pompei Top and bottom column tiers at the temple of Apollo in Pompei remind us that many of the buildings were two-story City wall and gardens as we leave Pompei
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Jul 9, 2012 12:40 GMT
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