VENICE INTRODUCTION, Introduction

Hi, my name’s James, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the most widely admired wonders of the world: Venice.

There’s no city quite like Venice for whisking you off into the past. There are virtually no modern buildings, and there’s not a car in sight. Venice has no roads; only canals traversed by boats and by the famous gondolas.

Venice has no equal. The whole city is built on the sea, on wooden piles: the buildings, squares and streets rest on the piles, most of which have remained intact for centuries and which run down through water, mud and sand until they find support on rock, or on more compact ground.

The sea that meanders its way in through canals wide and narrow doubles the beauty of the city, reflecting the facades of its magnificent medieval buildings, which seem to rise up out of the water.

As you wander through the silent calli, as the little streets of Venice are known, where every house, stone and wall has a history stretching back centuries, or as you cross the Bridge of Sighs or any of the hundreds of other little bridges over the canals, you’ll be in awe, with the sensation that time has stood still....