Could post about a thousand pix about this place, and each would deserve about a thousand words. Here' s a couple of pix:
Venice is sinking, no doubt, but I'm pretty sure the tilt to the left here is my sloppy camerawork. The doge's palace, at centre, was really more a place of government than a palace, since the doges were elected for limited terms and had their own palazze, so it's full of council rooms and Senate chamers and courts of appeal, all well explained to suggest how a sort of republic lasted a thousand years or so. Great collection of Old Masters too.
A little canalside cafe, this one on the adjacent island of Murano, one of a million in Venezia. More substance soon. But if you get the chance, don't pass on either Rome or Venice. Next stop: a little off the beaten path.
