Venice (1963)
Venice
“The canals govern the shape and pattern of Venice. The streets fill the gaps, like a filigree. Venice is a maze of alleys, secluded courtyards, bridges, archways, tortuous passages, dead ends, quaysides, dark overhung back streets and sudden sunlit squares. It is a cramped, crowded, cluttered place, and if its waterways are often sparkling, and its views across the lagoon brilliantly spacious, its streets often remind me of corridors in some antique mouldy prison, florid but unreformed. It is a... very stony city. A few weeks in Venice, and you begin to long for mountains or meadows or open sea (though it is extraordinary, when once you have tied your sheets together and jumped over the wall, how soon you pine for the gaol again).
There are several different grades of street and square in Venice. The fondamenta is a quayside, usually wide and airy. The calle is a lane. The salizzada is a paved alley, once so rare as to be worth distinguishing. The ruga is a street lined with shops.MoreLess
There are several different grades of street and square in Venice. The fondamenta is a quayside, usually wide and airy. The calle is a lane. The salizzada is a paved alley, once so rare as to be worth distinguishing. The ruga is a street lined with shops.MoreLess
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