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Venice is one of the most important tourist destinations in the world for its celebrated art and architecture.The city has an average of 50,000 tourists a day (2007 estimate). In 2006, it was the world's 28th most internationally visited city, with 2.927 million international arrivals that year. It is regarded as one of the world's most beautiful cities.
From St. Mark's Square including the famous tower of the Basilica and Doges Palace as seen from the Grand Canal (above) and a typical "street" within Venice (below), this is a destination that should be on your "bucket list" if you have never been there.
You can visit Venice either as a port of call during, or the embark/debark point of a cruise itinerary.
Many itineraries, especially those that begin or end in Venice, have an overnight stay and this really gives you a chance to enjoy the many sites of this romantic city. Go to St Mark's Square in the evening and when at one of the restaurants on the square listen to several small groups playing music outside the various places to dine that abound in the square itself. Don't worry! The pigeons are usually not there in the evening. (it can be worse than Central Park in New York in the daytime but still fun to stroll around and visit the square and even do some shopping.)
Take a Gondola ride or enjoy some Gelato as you stroll the streets of the city and walk over the bridges that connect them.
Go to the famous glass works factory in Murano, and visit historic churches with some of the most incredible architecture and works of art inside, and of course be sure to see Doges Palace and the famous "Bridge of Sighs" named thusly, as that was the route prisoners were taken over to their cells knowing they would never be able to view Venice again- sigh.
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