Venezia -- terciero
wed., march 15
today was a great day. exhausting, but great. it began early in the island of San Giacomo. colleen, corey and i headed out there to see some new developing that was constructed about 2 years ago. its a community of contemporary housing units that is actually not bad at all. it liked it for the most part. its always interesting to see new stuff mixed with the old. on the same island is the church of the Santissimo Redentore and one one of the neighbooring island is the famous church of San Giorgio Maggiore. both of these churches were designed by the famous Andrea Palladium in the 16th century. both of these churches were beautiful, palladium thought that churches should be white to symbolize their purity, and i really liked that. we decided to go up to the campanile of san giorgio and take a peek at the city from above. it was beautiful!
our next stop was San Marco, the cathedral of venice. this church was crazy! all of the inside was either gold plated, gold colored, or coverd in golden venician glass. it was just insane. this church also houses the Pala D'oro, an altar peice that took around 200 years to make -- this thing is made completly out of gold and has more than 250 precious stones compossed in its design. anyways, we ended up having a "picnic" up on the roof of the church, pretty cool huh? after this, we went to the peggy gugenheim museum. this was also an amazing thing. you look one way and there is a picasso, you look they other way and there is a dali and then you go into a room full of pollock. wow.
that after noon we took a boat to Murano, the glass-making island. man, they really know how to work that glass, every single peice was incredible. it was getting late, so we didn't get to see the whole deal. however, i did manage to buy some presents for the family (shhhh...). anyways, later that night we regrouped in a church near the Academia. the task was simple: sit back, and let the music take over. it was a concerto that played mostly vivaldi, but also some paganini and bazzini were thown in. it was the best end to a day like this.
*view from the campanile of San Giorgio Maggiore
*the inside of San Marco
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