“THE CENTRAL BUILDING OF THE WORLD.”
In the 4 centuries it took to build the Ducal Palace, Venice became not only the most powerful state in Europe, but the centre of the known world.
So her windows, her churches, her palaces—her every stone tells a colossal tale of East & West, love & lust, greed & power, conspiracy & murder, plague & wealth, faith & reason, freedom & democracy, war & the constant struggle for peace.
And the city’s incomparable richness in historical detail is commensurate only with the beauty of its buildings and the GENIUS OF ITS ARTISTS…