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Show VENICE A CITY OF DREAMS Many Charms for the Tourist in This I Picturesque City of Italy. To the wanderer in Italy, Venice has a peculiar attraction. Arrive there at sunset, or better still by moonlight, and you will fancy yourself transplanted trans-planted to some city of dreams. With daylight this feeling may wear off to some extent, although there is never, at any time-; as much hustle and stir in Venice as in other towns. Morning, Morn-ing, noon or night, Venice has a fascination fas-cination all her own. This is partly due IC the fact that she is a city built on the water. To explore Venice and to become intimately in-timately acquainted with her, a gondola gon-dola is not a necessity, rather it is a luxury for sunset evenings and moonlight nights. It is a delightful experience, ex-perience, and not a difficult one, to find one's way about Venice on foot; quaint, old world corners are discovered, discover-ed, bits of ancient architecture, carved doorways and little bridges, with a feast of color here, there and everywhere. every-where. Apart from all the beauty of scenery, there is the enthralling interest inter-est evoked by her history and traditions. tradi-tions. Among the traditions we read that St. Theodore was the first patron saint of Venice, to be superseded later on by St. Mark. The wanderer in Venice Ven-ice becomes familiar with the Lion of St. Mark. More prominently than anywhere is to be seen on one of the columns on the Piazzetta, whilst on the other is St .Theodore. These columns col-umns of beautiful red and gray granite gran-ite are supposed to have come originally orig-inally from Syria. They were erected erect-ed by a Lombard engineer. Christian Science Monitor. |