It has been raining a fair bit for a few days but it hasn't really affected what we've been doing. Got woken up at 5.30am yesterday with the acqua alta siren which was not quite the way that you want to wake up on a Sunday morning but better than falling in a canal.
We went on the Secret Itineraries tour at Palazzo Ducale on Saturday -we went on the Italian tour and really enjoyed it :
http://www.turismo.provincia.venezia.it/default.aspx?PAGINA=74&ID=7640
http://www.vivaticket.it/evento.php?id_evento=409912&idt=566&op=museiCivici
You are not allowed to take photographs in most of the Palazzo Ducale so these are from the places where it was ok.
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| A pozzo or well in the middle of the forecourt |
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| The Giants Staircase |
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| This Bocca della Verita was to do with dobbing in people who had not paid their taxes. There were many bocce |
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| A cell door in the prisons |
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| For those of you who think that Italian lions are naff, you'll think again if you see them in Venice |
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| View out towards Riva Degli Schiavoni from the roof space in Palazzo Ducale |
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