A Venetian tour for kids

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  • Venice, Italy ‐ Mar 22, 2017
    Venice's two green men
    St Mark, the patron Saint of Cobblers and other Saints
    Northern Castello
    Campiello de Ca' Angarini
    A very fine hotel on the Rio Bad Payer
    The grisly sausages of the Riva di Biasio
    The Fighting Bridges of Venice
    +11
    A stroll along the Riva degli Schiavoni....
    +15
    In and around the Piazza
    +5
    Into Campo Santo Stefano and beyond...
    +5
    On the Rialto
    +4
    The Mastelli Brothers and a trip to Cannaregio
    The Seven Venetian martyrs.
    OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC gardens is a sad and mysterious monument. A sculpture of a female partisan, sprawling at the water's edge with her hands up to her face, is dedicated to the seven men who were shot...
    A confused story of four minor Saints.
    SO FEW PEOPLE look up. In England these days, with all the grim, modern shop fronts it is almost impossible to age a building without looking at the first floor level and above. Fortunately there is n...
    The Patron Saint of Cobblers
    EVERYONE MUST KNOW that Saint Mark is the patron saint of Venice. What very few people know is that he is also the patron saint of cobblers. Many pass through Campo San Tomà without ever giving the ol...
    The shocking death of Governor Bragadin
    THE CHURCH OF Santi Giovanni e Paolo was begun by Dominican friars in 1246. There are 21 doges buried here but the most appalling death occurred to one who is remembered in an altar on the right hand...
    A Stern end for General Michiel Malpaga
    THE HOTEL PALAZZO Stern ( http://www.palazzostern.it/en ) has a dark secret. Before it was rebuilt in the early 1900s as a private residence for German art collectors named Ste
    The grisly sausages of the Riva di Biasio
    IT IS ONE of Venice's most shocking tales. Just one vaporetto stop from Santa Lucia railway station on the Santa Croce side of the Grand Canal is the Riva di Biasio ( http://europeforvisitors.com
    The Fighting Bridges of Venice
    LOOK CAREFULLY. Look very carefully at the bridge just the other side of the floating vegetable barge the next time you are in Campo San Barnaba in Dorsoduro. It's the bridge that crosses into the Rio...
    The Statue of a Loyal Ghost
    WE CAN SEE the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi from the entrance to the gardens on the Rio Terra Garibaldi. But we are not here to admire the man called the father of the Italian nation but rather a smal...
    The Sad tale of the Fisherman and his Mermaid.
    A LONG TIME ago a fisherman named Orio lived in Castello. Every night he would get into his little boat and cast his nets off the shores the Lido and this one night he felt something extremely heavy i...
    Welcome to my Venice
    NOW HERE IS the thing. Venice, apart from a few, relatively new, hideous additions such as Cassa di Risparmio bank in Campo Manin, the grisly Hotel Daniele extension on the Riva degli Schiavoni and th...