March: dates in townTogether with the Rialto bridge, this is perhaps the most sought-after bridge for snapshots consigning the beauty and charm of Venice to memory. But few would be able to name it. It is the Paglia bridge, as seen in this beautiful cover picture, thus named because straw for the palace stables was stocked at the bottom of it. Some of the most interesting and symbolic glimpses of the city may be viewed from its parapets, crowds permitting it. On one side, a few metres away from its balustrade colonnades, the narrow Palazzo canal is spanned by the Bridge of Sighs, the artistic seventeenth-century artefact that linked the ducal residence to the notorious
Prisons, known to collective imagination for one of the most famous escapes in history, Giacomo Casanova’s.
On the other side, is the extraordinary view of the basin of St. Mark, with its corollary of islands
at San Giorgio and the Giudecca and the Punta della Dogana, with their respective churches of St. George,of the R
