[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link book
A Wanderer in Venice

CHAPTER X
14/14

Two steamboat stations pretend to deposit you there, but neither does so: S.Stae, from which it is a tortuous walk, and S.Marcuola, on the other side of the Canal, which means a ferry boat.
There is a calle and a traghetto next the museum, and then a disreputable but picturesque brown house with a fondamenta, and then the home of the Teodoro Correr who formed the nucleus of the museum which we have just seen and left it to Venice.

His house is now deserted and miserable.

A police station comes next; then a decayed house; and then the Palazzo Giovanelli, boarded up and forlorn, but not the one which contains the famous Giorgione.

And here, at the nice garden on the other side of the Rio S.Giovanni Decollato, I think, we may cease to identify the buildings, for nothing else is important.
Beyond S.Simeone, however, at the corner of the Rio della Croce, is a large and shady garden belonging to the Papadopoli family which may be visited on application.

It is a very pleasant place..


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books