Tour sights in Venice
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Riva degli Schiavoni
The waterside walkway west from Rio Ca’ di Dio to the Palazzo Ducale in San Marco is Venice’s stone boardwalk, the Riva degli Schiavoni. Schiavoni (literally, ‘Slavs’) refers to the fishermen from Dalmatia in the region of the former Yugoslavia who arrived in Venice in medieval times, and found this a handy spot for casting their nets. For centuries, vessels would dock and disembark here right into the heart of Venice – if they could find a parking space between galleons and gondolas. A Rosetta Stone’s worth of languages were spoken here, as traders, dignitaries, sailors and servants arrived from ports around the Mediterranean and beyond. Paolo Veronese’s Fe…
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