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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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Venice Carnival: bring back the old days!

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01.12.10
All about Venice, Events, Information about Veneto, Travel, Venice Carnival, All about Venice, calle, calli, campo, Carnevale, Carnival, costume, Custom, frittelle, galani, maschera, mask, San marco, Shrove Tuesday, venetian, venezia
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Ah, here it is again, like every winter, the eternal question: shall I dress up or not for the Venice Carnival? Today a collegue and twitter friend @casinadirosa ( www.casinadirosa.it ) asked me if I had anything written down on the Venice Carnival. As I said no, that I didn’t and that I had to [...]

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A Venetian who has never been on a boat?

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10.19.09
All about Venice, Information about Veneto, Travel, Venice:things to do & see, All about Venice, boat, CanalGrande, Gran Canal, lagoon, Rii, Rio, row, rowing, Serenissima, venetian, venezia, Voga
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Yes, I admit it: I am Venetian and I never been on a rowing boat in my whole life! First of all I would like to clarify something: the term Venetian does not apply only to people who are born and live in Venice itself, but also to all of those people who live in [...]

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OASI WWF VALLE AVERTO – VENEZIA

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06.11.09
Information about Veneto, Travel, Venice:things to do & see, Add new tag, All about Venice, animals, averto, chioggia, horses, lagoon, oasi, reserve, valle, venezia, wildlife, wwf
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Sunday 7th of June 2009 my husband and I, together with our son and a friend of his went to visit the Oasis WWF Valle Averto on the SS 309 (The Romea), the road which connects Venice with Chioggia. It was a beautiful experience: first we took few rounds on a cart pulled by horses [...]

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Asolo, little jewel in the Veneto Hills

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05.29.09
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Last week-end we went (as we always do once a year) to Asolo, a little medieval jewel town in the Veneto Hills. It was very very hot, but we soon took care of that by walking into the old Ice Cream parloour Caffe Centrale in the main square and after an aperitive and an ice-cream, [...]

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