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Cannaregio 5835, Venice, 30131, Italy
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A couple of turtles hanging out in the garden
The Restaurant seen from the campanile S.Giorgio.
Costumes on a sunny day
Ca' da Mosto (on the left hand side)
My apologies in advance if this question would be better received in a different sub-forum -
After an exhaustive Google search, I'm having trouble trying to find a very specific item.
A friend of a friend travelled to Venice earlier this year, returning with a simple set of four miniature hand-blown wine glasses in an attractive gift box.
My friend; still having her unfulfilled dream of a trip of her own, commented on how much she liked them. Long story short, I'm trying to find them for her. I don't have ready access to the original purchaser to obtain more details.
I appreciate how general the question is, but more to the point - is there a reputable company that you might be able to suggest? One that provides ease in browsing items, and might have shipping options to the States?
You may try contacting murano piu by Piazza Navona. http://www.paginegialle.it/muranopiu I am pretty sure this is the store we bought some minature wine glasses from several years ago. The site is in Italian, but there is an info email address that may be able to provide you a catalogue reference. Karl
Thank you so much...will check it out!
Take a gondola ride! They are expensive, but if you split it with 2 or three others, it's not bad. Our ride was about $90 USD, but there were 3 of us so it was $30 each. Our boatman was very knowledgeable about the city, and quite friendly. He offered to take our picture without us even asking!
The architecture all around Venice is so amazing. This beautiful palace, found in the Campo Santa Margherita, is virtually unchanged since the 1300's. Notice its deep overhanging eaves and the family crest over the entrance portal.
We all know this feeling of dizziness when we have been on a boat for quite a while and get back on firm ground – everything seems to move for some time. Naturally, when travelling along in Venezia on the boats, it is the same. But I am pretty sure that Venezia’s ground also partly moves. Not much and definitely not noticeable, but enough to give us landlubbers a slightly dizzy feeling. Within my 12 days in city and lagoon, walking and taking vaporettos, I still had that “the ship is moving” feeling for roughly one week, when sitting at the computer or walking around back home. Maybe it is even logical, given the way the city is built on these islands. Compared to firm grounds, the islands are just not as “stable”.
How instable the ground can become over the long years and centuries is quite often visible with several campaniles in Venezia and other islands. Already on Burano, the campanile of chiesa San Martino is extremely crooked, due to the soft underground. In Venezia herself I saw 3 campaniles, which very much lean over and show how fragile the ground is. One is on Isola San Pietro, of chiesa San Pietro di Castello (photo 1), the other one is the one of San Grigorio del Greci (photo 2) east of Piazza San Marco and the third one is a campanile in southern Canaregio. But the most interesting observation I made after my trip, when I was sorting out the photos. Palazzo Ducale’s western façade is also not even (horizontally). Photo 4 shows the façade and how uneven the otherwise very much accurate symmetry of the palazzo is just above the first floor arcades.
This is also a sign how much the whole areal around Piazza San Marco is affected by the lagoon situation (draining of ground water in the past, too much traffic and waves = moto ondoso, the cruise ships, etc).
So whoever gets seasick easily, should…. well, consider this all and maybe think about not to come and visit La Serenissima. Recently I saw a post in the forum where someone asked if it would be necessary to travel by boat, as the one would be terrible seasick. Well, I'd say better not travel there at all.
As at south Spain you will find lots of imagines of the Virgin and of Jesus or of other saints in many places, at Venice, nearly everywhere ... there are of great beauty and art and old. This is a custom I love cause they use to have flowers and candles and they look great at night.
Maybe you can ask something to on of those Virgin and put the imagine a candle, perhaps your petition will be hear :)
Look for them and look them near … they are really beautiful.
When booking the hotel I was told to bring an adaptor. I had stayed in Italy before and had never needed one, but just to be on the safe side I had asked in the Italy forum. The general consensus was no adaptor is needed.
Well, when I was in the hotel and wanted to recharge my camera, I saw I did need an adaptor after all! Not a transformer, just a sort of in-between- plug. Luckily for me, I was able to get one in the Billa supermarket for about 2 Euro. They only had a few, so in high season I think it's a good idea to bring one from home. It seems that some hotels ( not all) use plugs with three holes and for these you need the adaptor.
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