Venice

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Venice was the northern end of our trip. My Mom and I watched gondolas pass under the Bridge of Sighs late on the afternoon of March 28, 2022, and spent the next day around St. Mark’s Square: the courtyard of the Doge’s Palace in the morning, St. Mark’s Basilica in the early afternoon, and the square itself later on, in the sun.
Photos from Venice
3 The interior of St. Mark’s Basilica: rows of red folding chairs on a patterned marble floor, a red-glass lamp hanging from the ceiling, a small shrine with a pointed roof among the marble columns, and arches and domes covered in gold mosaics, with visitors by the marble screen in front of the high altar.
Inside St. Mark’s Basilica, under its gold mosaics.
A panorama of the Doge’s Palace courtyard on an overcast morning: two tiers of white stone arcades wrap around the paving, a bronze wellhead on a stepped base stands in the middle, and a dome of St. Mark’s Basilica rises above the ornate clock façade at the far end, with visitors crossing the courtyard.
The courtyard of the Doge’s Palace.
The enclosed white stone Bridge of Sighs, with its small grilled windows, crossing the canal between the Doge’s Palace on the left and the barred windows of the prisons on the right. A gondolier in a striped shirt steers passengers below, with more gondolas and another bridge farther down the canal in the late afternoon light.
Gondolas passing under the Bridge of Sighs.
