'D Shikoku (series III Venice)

Tuesday, April 27, sunny Venice weather

After breakfast, we travel to Venice.

Fine, all are green fields, here or in early spring, the color of the trees or green, looking, people very happy. 300 km to Venice by car, when noon. Our first one is called Hong Kong Restaurant restaurant, there is so much, but Cook well, quantity is also great. We quickly after dinner, to Venice – the city on the island to visit. Venice to me has always been a fantastic place, without said Marco · Apollo era, and China's Western region had Silk Road, that is to see in the picture album can also be called the Venice of the world's most beautiful, one of the most unique cities. It is rising above the sea, all the houses and streets and beautiful churches are built in thousands of small islands. Cross-cutting waterways like the streets of our cities, this mode of transport, like the land of the car and taxi, replacing them with Steamboat and log shipping. The earliest inhabitants here is 4-5 century to escape the war fled to the island. The ancient city was built in 452 years, located in the Adriatic shore, known as the Pearl of the Adriatic Sea. The world famous opera "Traviata" premiered here and get a great success. Listen to the guide said, here are eating modouyu sauce and small spider habit.

By boat to Venice water city, very broad, cross-channel architecture, the water's edge on the House, the national library, and many medieval buildings into your vision.

Boat, when you go on the Venice lagoon city, fantastic water no longer exists, replace it with a noisy city feeling. People everywhere are people, there are a lot of shopping at the water's edge. You will feel this is probably a water city in China. We first came to San Marco square, this is the largest square in Venice. Plaza which are capable of and close to where the pigeon and many tourists, everyone took a lot of food to feed the pigeons and doves food too much, all dependent fertilizer fat fat, really lose weight. Square surrounded by buildings are very old, the lower is the Arch of the lobby, there are many coffee shops and elegant small shop, if you have time you can taste the centuries always aromatic coffee. The front is St. Mark's Cathedral, in the year 828, Mark's Gospel preacher of Saint bone from Egypt moved to Venice, so I decided to build the magnificent Church of the Holy things for everybody who misses. This church has built a long time (mainly in 11 ~ 15 century) and finally completed the magnificent of beautiful churches. Most importantly, it integrates all century different architectural styles: it has a Byzantine-style resplendent, Gothic architecture, the appearance of the Roman period, the internal structure of half dome, and Muslim Palace dome. This is reflected in Venice, and the open exchange and integration of the world. The front is a large Arcade, five luxurious door respectively, Roman period of small cylindrical and relief decoration. Enter the Church, its luxury even more surprised that it is not like religious sanctuary down like a shimmering of the Palace. Golden inset on the wall is the story of the Bible, the most striking is the sermon the altar after a gold decoration screen, this is a goldsmith with pure gold to build artistic masterpieces, inlaid jewel, enamel, and other precious materials. In the left side of the chapel of Notre-Dame, decorative art and Byzantine gold all shengqi, 1204 year crusade brought back to Venice. She is graduated from the Xi'an,, learn Italian Language Institute. She's in the boat to Venice we describes the geographical and cultural background, ashore later has been with us to see the burning glass. Venice is the hometown of glass, the glass products refined and colourful. She gave us line 9 (plus the whole culture guide Miss Zheng) into a small alley's not a big house, I didn't expect, here is the store and workshop. On the second floor and came to a glassware room. A local man gave us show glass making process. He removed from the furnace a fiery red glass melt in a long pipe head, mouth-blown into empty, then a small pliers, three la two pulled it out of a running small Malay. And so cool, a red glass is made of a horse. And then we were taken to visit a variety of glass products, it is said that all containers are really beautiful, bright color, precision-made, but the price was too expensive. In RMB, a tea set are in the hundreds, several thousand dollars, say our journey has just begun, cannot be bought with her, only to look at it. Maybe we don't have to buy things that make Zhao guide not pleased, she hurried away, it didn't put us to the return of the boat. See our compatriots so don't work, quality so low, it's her shame. Taiwan's Zheng, regardless of whether we can't buy anything always careful to explain, to accompany you to walk a lot road, 10 days, every day, so why the continent to be settled on the money and not serious about his work? maybe it is just a particular phenomenon, I always worry about her, so that the work be mixed?

From the glass workshop, we truly enter into the heart of Venice, an S-shaped canals meandering in St. Mark's Church and the railway station.

It connects the Venice other waterways, river has established public Turbo, private motorboat, various types of small engines and tour boats. There is a small boat called a gondola, is unique to Venice, the color will be black, two was sharp and, most interestingly it on both sides of asymmetric, it also really is a bit technical. Dragon Boat Festival of people standing on the boat, only a long paddle fixed in the right side of the ship, andThe South became fixed in the stern, really don't know what they are.

Walk into the city of Venice, just enter the horizontal cutting water, waterways, and some only parallel two boats, like Beijing's Hutong, communicate the entire city.

A string of small bridges to waterways linked sides of the street, there are families, housing, water, whose Windows out of the water but 1 m, local residents have their own window with various hanging plants and colourful flowers decorate the very elegant. These houses have 100 years of history, because underneath are paved with large stones, so the Foundation can have very sturdy, immersed in the water without collapse. Unfortunately, these little river because the pollution has pan out foul smell, destroyed the Venice of the beautiful and mysterious, people are fully aware that if you do not pay attention to the protection of the environment of Venice, its tourism value will be lost.

Grand Canal's water is relatively clear, Lido bridge is the oldest and most beautiful trophies.

This bridge was originally wooden bridge, the Bridge Center is active for large vessels, 16th century decided to make the stone bridge, Michelangelo was actually marked bridge, but in the end was a man called Antonio, 1592, built of white stone. Bridge is a must-see for large-span of the arch, central height 7.5 m, the bridge is a roofed corridors from the side of the Bridge Center is a very high arched, each side has six small arched doorway, point into 24 shops, pedestrian walking on the bridge, you can buy things or taking a picture of the Grand Canal.

5 o'clock, we walked along the River back to the Terminal, after the famous bridge, built in 1600 years, is a fully enclosed Baroque stone bridge, it stands in the House and the small river between prisons, prisoners sentenced after, from the bridge was put into prison, according to legend the past of the boatmen will often hear the prisoners through bridge of Sighs, so called the bridge.

Along the Lake to the pier, crab lake water clear, blue, distant Lake Lido island is tall Gothic church bell tower, Byzantine dome of architecture, ancient and serene, if not the crowd of visitors broke the quiet here, and here it is a beautiful and tranquil island. Unfortunately, the Venetian merchant business instinct won't make the cut here, so doomed here also hilarious. The fantastic feeling, only in my dreams will appear.

Also at noon the restaurant to eat lunch, we drove to a called the garden of the hotel.

Here it is in line with its name, is covered with colorful tulips, red, pink, yellow, there is no name of a flower, a chic little house, two bottles of the goddess of the statue stood at the gate of the stone pillar, on both sides of a beautiful fountain, Central stood the statue of the goddess. You may think this is a small park.

In Italy, each statue is exquisite, Italy, Switzerland, will never see such a delicate and numerous sculptures.