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DAY 5: Sunday 17th April Rialto, Ferrovia and the Ghetto
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A map of Venice. Rialto, Fish Market and Ferrovia arrowed |
Our Bedroom |
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Rialto Bridge early on Sunday, no crowds! |
Grand Canal |
Galleon Restaurant |
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Looking out into the Fish Market |
 Behind Rialto Market |
 On the way to the Ferrovia |
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Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista |
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The old Venetians were short |
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The Bridge, Ponte dei Scalzi, to the Railway Station which is behind |
There were a few graffiti |
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Door knob, they tend to prefer Africans |
On the Rio Tera San Leonardo. I guess it was a river (Rio) once |
Marines provide extra security |
Teatro Italia in Clio dell Aconetta |
 Female Gondolier in Campo dei Ghetto Vecchio |
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 The Ghetto was the area to which the Jews had to return in the evening and weekends with the gates shut. It means "Foundry" in Italian, a gold foundry perhaps? The plaques on the left are a memorial to the Holocaust. Arrows on the map mark the plaques, the museum and our coffee stop. |
 Ristorante Opuda |
 Askenazi v Sephadi |
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 A wall plaque in Hebrew |
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 The female Gondolier has Jewish customers |
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A small Venetian |
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Keeping Watch |
The Natural History Museum |
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 Mafia? |
Fake Designer Bags and sun glasses for sale |
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 Local Art Gallery |
 A curry for my birthday lunch here at... |
 Ganeshji Indian Restaurant where I had an excellent Rogan Josh and a pint of light Italian beer. |
 I think Ganeshji was owned by a Sikh with Italian waiters |
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 Sestier de San Polo |
 The Winged Lion of St Mark from Fascist era |
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 Tired feet and a complex map |
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 Ooh! |
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 Poor signal in doors |
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Nice Bra? |
 Tall Girls |
A gull begs with menaces |
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 On the Rialto with a map |
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 Which way? |
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 Concert-goers at La Fenice and a Marx Brother passes by |
 Only plastic flowers |
 La Fenice Stage Door |
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 The Museum of Musical Instruments |
 Lovers in a Museum of Contemporary Art and ... |
 ... The Beatles on Abbey Road |
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 Black and White glass |
 Campo di San Vidal |
 A child dancing to the buskers |
 Poet, Nicolo Tommaseo, and Pigeons |
 Another door knob |
 vPalazzo Franchetti with the Exhibition by Joseph Klibansky |
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 Accadamia Bridge |
 A very queer shop |
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 Chiesa di San Moise |
 Basilica San Marco with the symbolic flagpoles and horses looted from the Hippodrome Constantinople |
 "Osteria No 1" below our Hotel but not connected where we had several reasonable evening meals |
