On this day, we decided to go back to Plazza San Marco to
visit the Doge's Palace and one of the other museums in the
Plazza. When we got to the Ferrovia vaporato stop by our
hotel, the crowd awaiting the direct route to Plazza San
Marco was ridiculous, so we decided to take the less direct
route. There are vaporatos that stop at the islands of Murano and then head back towards the Plazza San Marco around
the northern and eastern edges of the main island cluster.
Take vaporato #52 to do this.
Vaporato #52
begins by heading northeast along the Grand Canal and then
turns left into the Canale de Cannaregio.
Here are a
couple of pictures we took along that canal.
There was a regatta going
on while we
were heading towards Murano.
Some
views of Murano.
Along the
northern edge
of Cannaregio
Hmm
Church of
Sant 'Elena
There is a
huge park on the far east end of the main island group.
We saw these two structures along the southern coastline.
They were part of La Biennale di Venezia (2005).
Mare Verticale - by
Fabrizio Plessi
Fabrizio Plessi’s Mare Verticale (Vertical Sea), is
perhaps the most prominent ‘new media’ artwork in
Venice. A boat-shaped light-emitting structure on the
water in front of the entrance to the Giardini, the
permanent structure was promoted as “a metaphor of the
journey towards [the] unknown but also a symbol of
artistic creation”. Made of steel and aluminum, it is
44 meters high.
Still have not found out what this is supposed to be.
It took several hours of searching on the Web just to
find the information on Plessi's work to the left.
If anyone knows what this is and who did it, please
let me know.
The
Venice Marathon is held every year in October and was
held this day. When we were walking around
Venice we saw various signs marking the route of the
marathon, which begins on the mainland. We
wondered how the poor runners would manage with all
the bridges. We discovered that they build large
ramps over the bridges along the race route. The
blue banners on the photo (l) outline the ramp.
