...For as long as there is Venice, I shall be happy.

"Should this city ever be short of cash, it can go straight to Kodak for assistance." Joseph Brodsky

"Venice is music made stone"Paolo Barbaro

"Venice is a sensual city, and there is something physiological about the devotion

she inspires." Jan Morris.

"The deposed, the defeated, the disenchanted, the wounded, or even only

the bored have seemed to find there

something that no other place could give." Henry James.

"Open my heart and you will see graved inside of it, Italy."

Robert Browning

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” Truman Capote

For a taste of Venice: run to

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