6. VENICE – View of the “Bacino di San Marco”
(Saint Mark Basin)
7. VENICE – View of Piazza San Marco (View from St Mark's Campanile )
Piazza San Marco (often known in English as Saint Mark's Square), is the principal square of
Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza".
8. VENICE – View St Mark's Clocktower
The Clock Tower is an early renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco at the entrance to the Merceria. It is comprised of a
tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. Both the tower and the
clock date from the last decade of the 15th century, though the mechanism of the clock has subsequently been much altered.
9. VENICE – View of “Il Piazzetta di San Marco” (The ‘Little Piazza‘)
The Piazzetta di San Marco is an open space extension of the Piazza connecting the south side of the Piazza to the waterway of the lagoon. The Piazzetta lies
between the Doge's Palace on the east and Jacopo Sansovino's Libreria which holds the Biblioteca Marciana on the west. It is open to the lagoon at the
mouth of the Grand Canal where two tall columns bearing symbols of Venice's two patrons, St Mark and St Theodore, stand facing the water's edge.
16. VENICE – View of “Campanile di San Marco” (St Mark's Campanile)
(View from the Canale di San Marco )
17. View of “Campanile di San Marco”
(St Mark's Campanile)
St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San
Marco in Italian) is the bell tower of St Mark's
Basilica in Venice, Italy, located in the square
(piazza) of the same name. It is one of the
most recognizable symbols of the city.
•The tower is 98.6 metres (323 ft) tall, and
stands alone in a corner of St Mark's Square,
near the front of the basilica.
•It has a simple form, the bulk of which is a
fluted brick square shaft, 12 metres (39 ft)
wide on each side and 50 metres (160 ft) tall,
above which is a loggia surrounding the belfry,
housing five bells.
•The belfry is topped by a cube, alternate
faces of which show the Lion of St. Mark and
the female representation of Venice (la
Giustizia: Justice).
•The tower is capped by a pyramidal spire, at
the top of which sits a golden weathervane in
the form of the archangel Gabriel.
•The campanile reached its present form in
1514. The current tower was reconstructed in
its present form in 1912 after the collapse of
1902.
18. VENICE – Licha and Ian at the top of the “Campanile di San Marco”
32. Views from “Ponte Vecchio” (Old Bridge)
•The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge", Italian pronunciation:
[ponte vɛkkjo]) is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in
Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as
was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the
present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers.
51. Licha and Ian at the Vatican, with the Dome of St. Peter’s Bascilica in the background
52. “Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II” (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II)
Also Known As: “Altare della Patria” (Altar of the Fatherland) or "Il Vittoriano“ and the “Wedding Cake”
53.
54. Views of “il Colosseo”
(The Colosseum)
The Colosseum, originally known as
the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin:
“Amphitheatrum Flavium”, or Italian
“Anfiteatro Flavio”), is an elliptical
amphitheatre in the centre of Rome,
Italy, the largest ever built in the
Roman Empire. It is considered one
of the greatest works of Roman
architecture and Roman engineering.
55. Views from the Inside of The Colosseum
Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts,
executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early
medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.
59. Views of The Pantheon
The Pantheon is a building in Rome, commissioned
by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods
of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor
Hadrian in about 126 AD. The building is
circular with a portico of three ranks of huge
granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first
rank and two groups of four behind) under a
pediment opening into the rotunda, under a
coffered, concrete dome, with a central
opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two
thousand years after it was built, the
Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest
unreinforced concrete dome.