
Things Seen in Venice - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Lonsdale Ragg, Laura Marie Ragg,
1 / 7First Impressions
- 1. First Impressions
- 2. The Grand Canal
- 3. The Heart of Venice
- 4. Venice on Foot
- 5. The Lagoon
- 6. Fasts and Festivals
- 7. Varia
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Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art. Most European cities have changed so much that a 1920 guidebook would be of little practical use, but not so Venice. Lonsdale and Laura Ragg were residents of the city - where Lonsdale was chaplain of St. George's English church from 1905 to 1909 - and they knew it well. Their guide brings its buildings and canals, its campi and its hidden campielli, to life in a surprisingly contemporary way. Try listening to Chapter 2 as your vaporetto chugs along the Grand Canal from the railway station to the Rialto bridge, only slightly faster than it would have done a hundred years ago! ( Phil Benson) Summary by Phil Benson
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