Lucas walks and floats through Venice chapter by chapter: the exterior and interior of St Mark’s, the Piazza and Campanile, the Doges’ Palace, and the palaces of the Grand Canal where Browning and Wagner lived. Pictures in the churches and galleries get as much attention as the buildings, along with gondoliers, theatres and odd corners.
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