Venice Most Beautiful City In The World
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World of Wanderlust
"What are the world's greatest destinations? Where are the best places to travel solo? From airport fashion to road trip rules, professional traveller Brooke Saward shows us where to go, what to do and how to get that holiday feeling without even leaving home. Full of beautiful photographs that will ignite the imagination and featuring enduring favourites like Paris, New York, and London, this is the book that will inspire you to make every day an adventure."
The Floating City: A Venetian Journey
Author: Pasquale De Marco
language: en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date: 2025-03-18
Journey to the heart of Venice, the Floating City, and discover its beauty, history, and people in this captivating book. Venice is a city like no other, a place where time seems to stand still. It is a city of canals and bridges, of palaces and churches, of piazzas and narrow alleyways. It is a city of gondolas and serenades, of masks and carnivals. It is a city of beauty and decay, of wealth and poverty, of light and shadow. In this book, we take you on a journey through the Floating City, exploring its iconic landmarks, hidden gems, and the lives of its people. We visit St. Mark's Square, the Doge's Palace, and the Rialto Bridge. We wander through the narrow streets and canals of Dorsoduro and Cannaregio, discovering secret courtyards and charming boutiques. We meet the gondoliers, the fishermen, the artists, and the shopkeepers who make Venice a vibrant and unique city. We learn about Venice's rich history, from its humble beginnings as a cluster of fishing villages to its rise as a powerful maritime empire. We explore Venice's unique culture and traditions, shaped by centuries of living on the water. We discover the challenges that Venice faces today, from rising sea levels to the impact of mass tourism. But Venice is a city of hope and resilience. Despite the challenges, it remains a place of beauty and wonder, a city that continues to inspire and enchant people from all over the world. Join us on a journey through Venice, the Floating City. Let us explore its beauty, its history, and its people. Let us discover why Venice is a city that will forever hold a special place in our hearts. This book is a love letter to Venice, a celebration of its beauty, its resilience, and its enduring spirit. It is a book that will transport you to the Floating City and leave you longing to return. If you like this book, write a review!
The Venice Variations
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.