“City of Masks”
Carnival masks are a part of the city as much as the canals, gondolas and St Marks Basilica. Venetian masks were used to hide and protect the wearer’s identity during promiscuous or decadent activities, but they became also the symbol of transgression and freedom from the severe social rules.
“City of Canals”
“City of Bridges”
Palazzo Ducale
The Doge’s palace housed, as well as the doge’s apartment, the prisons and “bridge of sighs”. The bridge was called “of sighs” because the prisoners sighed, through the small windows, looking the lagoon and San Giorgio island for the last time before to go to prison forever.
The most famous prisoner was Giacomo Casanova, whose escape from the prison was his most famous adventure.
Canal Grande
Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
FLORENCE (Europe, Italy) – “THE ATHENS OF THE MIDDLE AGES”
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