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pazzawinyan

I'm an art historian and paper conservator in Venice, Italy. I believe strongly in sustainable tourism (desperately needed in Venice!) and am a licensed tour guide specialising in unique experiences. I travel for art! Cooking, travel, continuously learning and reading are my favoriate pastimes.

www.arttoursitaly.com

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Cinto Euganeo, Italy

Euganean Hills

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

storvandre

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Monselice, Italy

Church of San Giorgio

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

kkcanary

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Padua Astronomical Clock

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

StepYoshi

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Capital Without Column

Something's missing between the arcades of the Palazzo della Ragione in "the city of the three withouts."

StepYoshi

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Palazzo del Bo Anatomical Theater

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Allison

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Botanical Garden of Padua - Orto botanico di Padova

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

Rachel

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St. Anthony's Tongue

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Allison

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Torcello Bell Tower

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

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Torcello

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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The Mad Colored Houses of Burano

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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Lazzaretto Nuovo

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Annetta Black

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'Dragon Bones' of Santa Maria e San Donato

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Joel Cusumano

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San Lazzaro degli Armeni

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

matthiasheinrich

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Lazzaretto Vecchio

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Annetta Black

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Isola di San Michele

Venice's island of the dead.

Annetta Black

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San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Annetta Black

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Piraeus Lion

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Added by mpwestfall

The Flooded Crypt of San Zaccaria

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

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Libreria Acqua Alta

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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Scuola Grande di San Marco

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

icysedgwick

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Reliquaries of St Mark's Basilica Treasury

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

matthiasheinrich

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St. Mark's Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio)

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Annetta Black

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St. Mark's Lost Third Column

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Michael Inscoe

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