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Early morning is the best time to avoid the tourists during the summer in Venice. They haven't started swarming around San Marco and Rialto. Nor have they yet started to buy boat rides along the gondola trail. Venice might be considered the Las Vegas of the 18th century. Certainly it's been inundated with tourists for centuries. As mentioned elsewhere, many places I go have been viewed first in a film. I first saw Venice in the Luchino Visconti film "Death in Venice" in which Dirk Bogart plays Thomas Mann's version of Gustav Mahler. It was the Nicholas Roeg film "Don't Look Now" that really hooked me on this "city in aspic." I finally experienced it - briefly - firsthand in 1987. After this trip in July of 2001, I'm not sure I'll go again. The crowds are amusement park in stature.
IT 101
BACINO
3 July 2001 |