VAPORETTO TOUR ON CANAL GRANDE

"I was invited to sit in the midst of two ambassadors, and it was these who led me through the big street, which they call the big canal and which is really very wide. Galleys go through it, and I also saw ships of 400 tons and more near the houses. It is really the most beautiful street that there can be, I believe, in the world [...]. The houses are very tall and large, the old ones are built with good stone and are all painted [...] the others are a hundred years old [...] they all have marble facades that come from Istria, 100 miles away, and large pieces of porphyry and serpentine."
(Philippe de Commynes, ambassador to Venice, 1495)

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