Egads! I never had much of a picture of Venice in my head, not the way I can easily recall the layout and feeling of, say, Brooklyn. This is a really cool map. A bunch of those buildings are still there. And I recognize the names of some of the canals. But I had no real idea of what it looks like, really looks like, how the various canals and islands and bridges work and all that stuff.
Venice is a city that functions best by boat. It's main street is the grand canal. It's outer ring highway is the lagoon. They've done a good job making it a walking city and paving over a few canals to make the "strada nova" (new street), but ... it still works best, as a system, by boat.
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Date: 2006-01-13 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 05:17 am (UTC)Alas, this map doesn't really do what I need.