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Entrance to Vicenza's Teatro Olimpico, Europe's oldest surviving indoor theater (designed by Palladio in 1579) Kids look at at Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, from the loggia designed by Palladio Soldier saints guard the tombs of Verona's 14th-century rulers Franco at the bar of Verona's Due Torri Hotel Baglioni Franco at the bar of Verona's Due Torri Hotel Baglioni A hotel on the shores of Lake Garda, in Riva del Garda On the Autostrada, you are never far from a sign offering Fiat service, which is perhaps just as well if you happen to own one of these vehicles. On the Autostrada, you are never far from a sign offering Fiat service, which is perhaps just as well if you happen to own one of these vehicles. Everything for the Fiat owner: an emergency phone and a sign directing you to the next mechanic Padua's Scrovegni Chapel, built in 1303 by Enrico Scrovegni who hoped to save his dead father, a usurer, from damnation. The frescoes are painted by Giotto. Merchants in Padua's Piazza Delle Erbe A nun shopping in Padua's Piazza Delle Erbe St. Mark's Square at night Venice's Florian's cafe, favored by Byron, Dickens, and Proust A pizza shop on the Grand Canal, near the Rialto Bridge. An artist painting a plate in a carnival mask shop An artist painting a carnival mask Yet to be painted carnival masks A whole pile of Venetian icons in one picture. Foreground: carnival masks in a shop. Middleground: an Italian woman in wintertime should never be without a fur. Background: gondolier. Two Venetian icons in one picture. Foreground: carnival masks in a shop. Background: gondolier. Two guys trying to get some work done; two tourists seeing Venice 6657 Barbaria Delle Tole, Giorgio Clanetti's Laboratorio Artigniano Maschere. 6657 Barbaria Delle Tole, Giorgio Clanetti's Laboratorio Artigniano Maschere. Father, Son, and Pigeons, an old combination in Venice's Piazza San Marco Father, Son, and Pigeons, an old combination in Venice's Piazza San Marco Father, Son, and Pigeons, an old combination in Venice's Piazza San Marco La Pieta, on the Lagoon in Venice's Castello district. From 1703 to 1740, Antonio Vivaldi was the music director in this orphanage. A hearse carries a Venetian to his grave on the lagoon island of San Michele. Maestro Barbero turns a lump of glass into a horse, out back behind Seguso, Ponte Vivarini 138, Murano A glass horse enters the oven, out back behind Seguso, Ponte Vivarini 138, Murano Maestro Barbero has an assistant applied the blowtorch to an inchoate glass horse, out back behind Seguso, Ponte Vivarini 138, Murano Maestro Barbero adds feet to an inchoate glass horse, out back behind Seguso, Ponte Vivarini 138, Murano Maestro Barbero starts with a lump of glass that will eventually become a horse, out back behind Seguso, Ponte Vivarini 138, Murano Maestro Barbero applies a final blowtorch to a glass horse, out back behind Seguso, Ponte Vivarini 138, Murano Helen on the private launch of the Hotel Cipriani High water in Piazza San Marco High water entering St. Mark's Cathedral High water in Piazza San Marco Gold mosaics inside St. Mark's Cathedral Gold mosaics inside St. Mark's Cathedral Among the four horses that adorn the front of St. Mark's Cathedral View of Piazza San Marco, from top of St. Mark's Cathedral View of Piazza San Marco, from top of St. Mark's Cathedral A mosaic on the exterior of St. Mark's Cathedral A mosaic on the exterior of St. Mark's Cathedral Fruit in Venice's Rialto Markets A spice shop among Venice's Rialto Markets Fishmongers in Venice's Rialto Markets Fish for sale in Venice's Rialto Markets Fishmonger and customer in Venice's Rialto Markets Fishmonger and customers in Venice's Rialto Markets An Irish Setter in Venice's Rialto Markets Waiting for the Traghetto Gondola, a micro-ferry service that crosses the Grand Canal at seven points. These cost about 50 cents and hence are by far the cheapest way to get a gondola ride. People standing up in the Traghetto Gondola, a micro-ferry service that crosses the Grand Canal at seven points. These cost about 50 cents and hence are by far the cheapest way to get a gondola ride. You're a sissy if you sit down. A Traghetto Gondolier A Traghetto Gondolier and an incredibly fat American with a triple chin Typical afternoon in Venice's Canaregio district Ca' d'Oro ( Poste Vecie, a restaurant behind the Rialto Markets Everything goes in a boat in Venice, including a lot of big oil paintings. You know that high water has to be bad for cafe business in Piazza San Marco Someone is not happy to be leaving Venice, here at the stop for the shuttle to the airport. In Venice, the closer you are to Piazza San Marco, the more likely you are to get bad food. Venice built Santa Maria della Salute in thanksgiving for being spared the Plague of 1630. Each November 21st, people walk across a pontoon bridge, enter the church, and light candles. The 18th-century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, now home to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of modern art.