Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Venice’s Piazza San Marco Anchored by its iconic Basilica and campanile, the Piazza San Marco – St. Mark’s Square – is as essential a part of Venice’s identity as its canals. Its main entrance is the Piazetta corridor adjacent to the Doge’s Palace that connects it to the Grand
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Channeling Venice There’s little that words can do to embellish the iconic images of Venice’s canals which have enchanted visitors for centuries. Paintings of these waterways by English Romanticist J.M. Turner, French Impressionist Claude Monet, and American John Singer Sargent are widely published and well known. In the eighteenth and
Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Venice’s backstreets Acres of cars are stacked within parking garages and lines of pedestrian passengers are streaming onto the ferry as the departure time to Venice approaches. The drive from Verona to Venice that began right after breakfast took less than two hours, which promises arrival in time for lunch
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Milan to Verona by Autostrada My one earlier visit to Italy was on a cruise that left only cravings for more of what was still unseen in the heartland of Northern Italy. The plan for this trip is to drive the countryside within a triangle loosely anchored by Milan,
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Château de Cheverny The Loire Valley’s Château de Cheverny has stood as a testament to the conspicuous consumption of French royalty for nearly 400 years. One of the first châteaux to open its doors to the public early in the 1900’s, it’s known for its magnificent interiors and remarkably
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Châteaux du Clos Lucé & Chenonceau Leonardo’s helicopter model at Château du Clos Lucé Château du Clos Lucé. If you thought that Leonardo da Vinci is buried in his native Italy, or that his famous Mona Lisa arrived at the Louvre as a spoil of war, you’d be wrong
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