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Villa & Barchessa Widmann in Mira, just outside Venice

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03.04.10
All about Venice, Information about Veneto, The History of Venice, Travel, Venice:things to do & see, All about Venice, barchessa, casanova, foscari, iTALY, longhena, mira, mirano, padova, palladio, rezzonico, riviera del brenta, tiepolo, villa, villa foscari, villa malcontenta, widmann
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VILLA E BARCHESSA WIDMANN IN MIRA, JUST OUTSIDE VENICE I find myself always talking about Venice, but today I decided it was time to talk about the Terraferma (the inland) and about what it can offer to Venice’s visitors. During the Middle Ages Venice looked at the water and the sea as a mean to [...]

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Facts, figures and bizarre things about Venice

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02.21.10
All about Venice, Information about Veneto, The History of Venice, Travel, All about Venice, belluno, bridges, burano, canals, cannaregio, casanova, castello, dorsoduro, ghost, holiday, Information about Veneto, italia, iTALY, lido, murano, padova, polo, rovigo, sanmarco, tour, Travel, treviso, venezia, verona, vicenza, visit, vivaldi
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Facts, figures and bizarre things about the beautiful city of Venice OK, so here you are: getting ready to come to visit Venice, the Serene city of Europe, the great Dame of the Water! You have booked your holiday, your luggage is ready, your passport is up to date, you have got your map and [...]

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Venice – Water and Land. In between: a bridge!(or maybe more than one!)

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02.09.10
All about Venice, Information about Veneto, The History of Venice, Travel, Venice:things to do & see, All about Venice, bridge of sighs, bridges, history, italia, iTALY, ponte dei sospiri, ponti, storia, venezia
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As probably many of you know, there are more than 430 bridges in Venice. I am going to try to list some of the most famous and explain to you why they have been named that way. Originally all bridges were made of wood or stone and they did not have any side protection, which [...]

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Ghosts of Venice

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01.20.10
All about Venice, Information about Veneto, Languages, The History of Venice, Travel, Venice:things to do & see, alberto toso fei, All about Venice, cicchetti, fantasmi, Ghosts, legends, osteria, spirits, tour, venetian, venezia
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Venetian Ghosts: all revealed in a great book by Venetian writer Alberto Toso Fei. When I first bought the book Venetian Legends and Ghost Stories by Alberto Toso Fei (to help me prepare my Food and Ghost tour of Venice) I thought it would be the usual invented and over-tragic list of ghost and horror [...]

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