VENICE-by Jimena Molina

VENICE

Hi, this post is going to be about travelling, specifically about my last international trip, which was to Venice.

This was my first time travelling to Italy and I didn’t know what to expect from this country, but everything, I give my experience there a ten out of ten. I really recommend you to visit this city if you have the opportunity to do it. At first sight, some people would say that Venice is not as good as what people in general say about it, but everybody who likes to travel and sees different things would love this city. I loved it. These are the reasons why I liked it so much:

-In first place, it is a  very different place from Madrid, because there aren’t cars, so as a consequence of this, no noise or contamination. People travel by acuataxi or vaporetto which is a boat for a lot of people, like a bus. Going everywhere by boat is very cool. In these cities you can go walking, on the streets, or sailing, in the canals. The canals are very pretty.

The whole of the city is very beautiful and pretty amazing. Some of the houses are in touch with the water and to enter you have to moor the boat in front of them, and the others are in too narrow streets. The houses and buildings are very old (but the state is constantly renewing them) and their front wall is full of decorations.

-This city almost subsists of tourism only, but this tourism is different from any other I've seen before anywhere. The Venetians are supposed to speak Italian (actually, a variant of it, Venetian) but they are always talking different languages, and everybody knows a lot of them. The whole city is like the “touristic part of Madrid”, there is no difference. Everybody treated me so well. Talking about the souvenirs, I especially liked a crystal made in the Murano island that can be modeled, so that all the souvenirs were basically different  figures made out of this crystal. These figurines were really well-made.

There are a lot of more things I could say about why I liked it so much, but in general everything is summarized in that the city was the most romantic and beautiful I have ever seen.

If you go, these are the main spots you will surely go to see:

St. Mark's Square: This is Venice’s principal square. It is full of history and surrounded by a great architecture. A lot of Venice's main sights are located here.

·         Grand Canal: It is the main water-traffic corridor sweeping on the city. It is amazing.

·         Rialto Bridge: It connects the districts of San Polo and San Marco across the Grand Canal in the center of the city. It is a very busy crossing and has amazing sights.

·         Bridge of Sighs: it has a legendary history behind.