Незабываемые прогулки по Венеции Unforgettable walks in Venice

We spent the night in Austrian Villach.

We got up early, it was cool in the morning, we took pictures on the street near the Church of the Holy Cross.

Breakfast – 6:30.7:10 we went to Venice. Like yesterday, mountains, tunnels, white rocks and streams passed. We made a short stop for a toilet and, after driving along the Liberty Bridge, at about 10:30 in the morning we arrived in Venice. And at 10:45 we loaded into small boats and drove along the Grand Canal. I was lucky, I sat down last and took a place on an open bench behind the driver (or captain? ). My eyes just ran wide, and, taking the opportunity, I photographed and filmed everything on video. Slowly sailing down the Grand -canal, after admiring the numerous palaces-pallazio, past Piazza San Marco, we moored at the bridge near the Metropol Hotel. Around 11:30 we somehow squeezed into the Murano glass workshop, looked at the process of making a glass horse, then wandered around the store for 20 minutes.

At 12:00 in St. Mark's Square, packed with tourists from all over the world, we were given headphones, and the hour and a half walking tour began. The guide, an Italian woman Nada with a good Russian, immediately said that “the temperature today is +38 and you will all die, because it’s hot, and you don’t have panamas” (I personally wore a cap, which means I had a chance to survive). The tour passed through the narrow streets of the city, between old houses, along canals with gondolas, along narrow bridges, passed by the Rialto Bridge. Everything was unusual and interesting, and I continued to continuously "click" the camera. The tour ended where it started.

At 1:30 pm I went on a tour of the Doge's Palace. It was impossible to take pictures, I had to try to remember the beauty of the walls and ceilings painted with paintings in large halls, a large amount of gilding. At the end of the tour we passed the prison and the Bridge of Sighs.

After 2:30 pm, we got together and went to an organized lunch (presumably at Trattoria Da Carletto): a small vegetable salad, lasagna (layers of dough with meat filling), poured with sauce, water and a glass of wine .

At 15:30 we came to gondola ride, 5-6 people loaded. I was the last to sit down and sat on the bench at the beginning and took advantage of such a wonderful opportunity to arrange a photo and video session.

A good-natured gondolier in a striped T-shirt deftly steered the gondola, sometimes kicking off the walls with his feet and ducking under low bridges. He did not want to sing songs, he sang a little as an advertisement, but he rented his hat for free for photo shoots. At first we sailed along the canal streets, then we went to the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge, sailed a little along the Grand Canal and turned back into the canal streets.

At 16:30 we took the elevator up to the Campanile, from where a wonderful view of Venice opens up on all four sides. In the same place, I bought a souvenir coin with the image of Venice in the machine.

The meeting was scheduled for 17:30, across the bridge from the morning drop-off point - near the building with 4 flags. Everyone came, except for two tourists. The guide stayed to wait, and we swam to the bus stop, where we walked for 10-15 minutes around the souvenir market.

At 18:20, everyone gathered and rolled further towards the Italian sea.