Venice

I recently visited the beautiful city of Venice and decided it would be lovely to share a few my experience and a few photographs. I usually tend to stick to typical beach holidays and relax to the maximum. Though on this particular holiday, we purposely booked a trip to Italy in order to fulfil the role of a ‘tourist’ and therefore do a spot of sightseeing. 
 

Venice is situated in north east of Italy and is known as Venezia in Italian. On my visit I was able to walk around and visit many popular sites such as Piazza San Marco (St Marks Square), the Clock Tower, the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge. Palazzo Ducale, Torre dell’Orologio, St Mark’s Basilica, etc. 

One thing that I loved about Venice was the twisty, turny passages and endless canals intertwining throughout the City. In a way, Venice feels like a fairytale land just because it was so different to anywhere else I had ever visited. The visit was of course complete with a necessary ride on a Gondola. The Gondola experience enabled a small trip down the Grand Canal and also meandered throughout the canals of the city. One particular benefit of Venice is that no matter how lost you may become within the passages and side streets, there is always a sign which directs you back to St Marks Square. Within the square we were surrounded by two things, tourists and pigeon’s haha! The square comprised of the clock tower which is apparently one of the newest buildings in Venice. The Cathedral which is known as St Mark's Basilica is also situated within St Marks Square. An interesting fact about St Mark's Basilica is that it took approximately three years to build and over 300 years to decorate as stated by a tour guide. The Cathedral contained hundreds of paintings on the walls but unfortunately I was not permitted to take any photographs inside the Cathedral.

I would definitely recommend a trip to Venice either with your friends, family or even a surprise trip for your girlfriend or boyfriend. Though make sure you save some pennies because in one cafe a glass of coke was five Euros alone. Also be mindful that Venice is a bumpy city due to it slowly sinking! Anyway here are a few photographs taken by myself. 

 

Outside St Mark's Basilica

My favourite Gondoling photo!

The Rialto Bridge.

The Clock Tower in St Marks Square

St Marks Square

St Marks Square again

One of the many mask shops

Hope you enjoyed!

Love
Lizzie x 

All photographs were taken by myself and are therefore owned by www.lizziebeau.blogspot.com.