Venice Day 4

Venetian vaporetto skipper

It is not easy to be at this altitude in Venice, day in and day out.

The Venice city fathers pay for restoration with billboard advertising! How American!

Piazza San Marco from the top of the San Giorgio Maggiore campanile

The magnificent floor of San Giorgio -- copied in Tarnowska's American Bar

The classic facade of San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the prime places to visit, not only because of its Tintorettos and Palladian architecture, but also because of its campanile and the unsurpassed views from the top (accessible by elevator). On our way to San Giorgio Maggiore we stopped at the Navale museum, which has many relics of Venice's maritime history, including such splendid items as a model of the Bucintoro, the floating palace for Venetian nobility, and a Doge's chair. The day concluded with our meeting a friend of Jane Scovell's (one of the residents of 15 West 81), Marie Louse Brulatour Mills, who has an apartment on one of Venice's canals, where we enjoyed an aperitif on the terrazzo of Marie Louise's apartment.