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  • 360-degree gondola ride through Venice

    • June 13, 2020
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    A very pleasant and relaxing way of getting a twenty-minute hit of Venice from your armchair.  Use toggle in left-hand corner or click and hold on the image then move the mouse to experience the 360-degree view – here. You can also get live cam views of the city – here.   ‘Casanova in Paris:
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  • Ca’ Rezzonico

    • April 4, 2020
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    Ca’ Rezzonico is a museum and one of those many cultural jewels to be found in Venice.  It is one of the best examples of Venetian baroque architecture. For a detailed and fascinating insight into the  building, its history and collections, the museum’s website is an excellent resource for discovering pretty much anything you might
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  • Goldoni

    • January 25, 2020
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    Venice’s most successful and beloved playwright and poet of the eighteenth century was Carlo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) whose work is still alive and kicking, most recently in the guise of the Broadway and West End hit ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ which is based upon Goldoni’s ‘Servant of Two Masters’.  There has been some speculation
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