Days: 2 days

Time: May

Play: free travel, photography, food

The author went to these places

Florence

Venice

Italy

San Marco Plaza

bell tower

Governor's Palace

St. Mark's Cathedral

The bridge of sighs

Rosa

Burano

Torcello

murano

Brano Island

San Zaccaria

the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Cinque Terre

Paint

Published on October 28, 2015 06:19

Apart from the countries I have lived in, I think that there are not many cities I have visited more than once. In the limited time and money, it is more worthwhile to go to different places every time. Paris, Salzburg, anilao, Florence, Pisa and Venice are the only towns that have visited more than once.

Last summer, Venice was the last city to stop before leaving Italy for a new country tour. In 2004, almost at the same time, I first arrived at the most beautiful water city in legend. Venice gave me a good first impression, much better than Paris. I chose to visit again after ten years because I have a good feeling and attachment to it.

Ten years later, Venice is still so charming. The changes in the streets are less than the changes I find in myself. Ten years ago, after I came here by train, I temporarily found accommodation near the railway station. That time I went to St. Mark's Square in a hurry. I had dinner in the restaurant facing the sea in the square. After dinner, I went window shopping in the streets for a long time. Ten years ago, I didn't have time to climb the St Mark's Campanile clock tower, and I didn't have to spend money to sit in gondola. Ten years later, these regrets must be made up!

At sunset, I took the elevator to St Mark's Campanile. At this time, the light is golden, although the direction of the city is a big backlight, but the direction of the open sea is very beautiful. The golden setting sun shines out the glory of the city. Looking at the dense buildings under my eyes, I don't feel confused at all. I just feel gorgeous and full of history.

Of course, what adds the most charm to the city is St. Mark's Square. After more than ten years of traveling, I have read numerous squares at all times and in all over the world, and St. Mark is still my favorite. 1. Here, even if it is a sea of people, the dense pigeons and pigeon stool, can not weaken my love for him. Procuratie, the executive mansion, is classical, neat and magnificent; The graceful and gentle feeling of Doge's palace; The elaborate details of St. Mark's Cathedral; In addition, all of them face the sea and are built according to the water, which adds a lot of unreal feeling.

Standing in the square, looking at the direction of the sea has felt as if in a dream; When you climb up to a high place and look at the sea, everything is even more unreal. Venice is a dream, a classical and gorgeous dream that will not be shattered.

For the first time, I fed pigeons in this square for an hour; This time, the pass is lost. However, when I saw other people feeding pigeons, I still thought it was a very happy and warm scene, especially when there were many children feeding together in this family.

On the sea side of the viceroy's palace in St. Mark's Square, the light is against the sun in the evening; Although it's difficult to take pictures of people in the scene, you can get the golden feeling of the square in the backlight at this time.

In fact, I still can't go to the governor's palace and the sighing bridge. The sighing bridge was closed just a few days after my visit. Well, it's destined that we won't come here only once or twice.

Look, the sun's almost set. We're going to sit in gondola. In 2004, I didn't remember who told me that gondola in Venice was sitting for more than 100 and 200 euros at a time, so I was reluctant to add it at that time, and I just didn't have time to give up. This time I carefully looked at the official price. It was 80 euro before 7 p.m. and 100 euro after 7 p.m. Is there really a price reduction?

It happened that when we went to the Dora ferry, it was just 6:50. The boatman kindly said that he would give us the price of 80 euro. Anyway, he is idle. Generally, the best time for business is after dark.

Behind me is our gondola boatman, born and raised in Venice, who has been doing this for 19 years. He said that half a year's work is generally enough. In other off-season days, they just drink, eat, or go out for a walk. Such a life is not bad.

Little gondola, with the waves, carrying us out of the dock, to the streets of Venice. I think we must take a picture of me on the ship with San Marco in the background.

Entering the canal road in the alleys, the atmosphere of historical precipitation immediately became stronger. The setting sun also has a golden light shining on the top of the centenary buildings on both sides. This kind of atmosphere is very delicious with the quiet canal road at this moment. There will never be a place on this planet like Venice. In this very unique landscape, you seem to witness the glory and decline of history at the same time.

Fortunately, at the end of May, I didn't enter the peak season of European travel, so I was able to take pictures of Venice with few people. In fact, I found that more tourists like to take gondola in the morning, maybe they just come to stay for a short day. But the most beautiful time of the city should be sunset to night. If you don't spend the night here, it's really a pity.

St Mark's Basilica. Later, I went in to see it. I was just looking at Dan Brown's Inferno. There were no photos inside the church, and the front of the church was just under repair. All kinds of things were covered up. But fortunately, I took a lot of positive ID photos on the trip ten years ago in 2004. It's also good to take some gorgeous little corners on the side this time.

2nd time in Venice，在小巷里吃当地人推荐的美食

Because it's my second visit, I don't want to follow the same steps. I don't do any homework about where to eat, and I don't want to see the ranking of TripAdvisor. I just want to ask the local people, "where are you all going to eat? Where do you think it's most Venetian? "

With the recommendation of the owner of our rented Venice apartment, we visited two of his popular restaurants this time. Both of them are very close to St. Mark's Square. They are hidden in the alleys. The farthest one is only 10 minutes away from our apartment.

On the first night, I went to Antico calcium, which specializes in all kinds of spaghetti and seafood.

The dining room is quite spacious. I can't see it from the outside. The feeling inside is a little classical and tidy, and the dining environment is quiet.

Since the selling point is pasta, we must point to the famous cuttlefish noodles and seafood noodles.

The taste of cuttlefish noodles is very good. I haven't eaten this dish for a long time, and I feel very satisfied in its hometown. It's not too salty, the smell of cuttlefish is light, and the cuttlefish is tender.

Seafood noodle is a gorgeous variety of good materials. Mussels, clams, crayfish, crayfish. It's full of protein and cholesterol.

This is really a variety of noodles with seafood. If the season is right, there will be lobster noodles with super lobster. Don't miss it if you pass by. The bread sticks that came with the meal were also delicious.

For dinner the next day, I went to another more modern restaurant recommended by the owner of the apartment, which mainly focuses on pizza.

Rosa Rossa is really a very modern shop, although his appearance is still very classical. But as soon as you go in, it's completely modern and simple design, dark light, the overall feeling is more like a bar.

Fortunately, there are bright lights above the table, so it's possible to take pictures of food.

Clams and mussels cooked in white wine, olive oil and garlic. As a starter, it's a big one. The ingredients are fresh.

The pizza was all vegetarian, tomato with mozzarella cheese, and tomato with mozzarella and tuna. Mozzarella cheese itself is light cheese, so the taste is relatively fresh, and the thickness of the pizza is moderate. It is not like American cheese will take away the original aroma of the dough. Italian pizza, you eat more fresh food, flour aroma; It's not like American style. Most of the time, it's just delicious and a little greasy.

American style pizza, I usually eat a dime enough, the result here, three people want two pizzas, still all clean. In addition, as a person who put an end to all kinds of onion and garlic food (including green onion, onion, garlic, leek, garlic sprout, ginger, leek), who had to pick out the shadow of a star onion when eating, and who had no trace of onion, ginger and garlic in the refrigerator for many years, he tasted a little purple onion for the first time. As a result, I found that purple (red) onions taste a little better, so that now, occasionally if you see purple onions in salad, you will eat one circle (if there are five circles of purple onions on the plate, you will eat two circles). I just found that if the purple onion is eaten raw, it tastes sweet, and its flavor is relatively small.

In Rosa Rossa, we also ordered a pasta, the most common pasta with meat sauce. American style meat sauce, meat is that aggressive ah, all the noodles to drown; Meat is just a supporting role in Italy's simple meat sauce noodles. What you eat is more spaghetti itself. It's very energetic. The cooking temperature is just right. I just like the slightly hard spaghetti!

Although the atmosphere of this meal is more modern, but the food is still quite satisfied, and finally came out with a big belly. I had to walk around the Venetian alleys to eat.

Ten years ago, I ate in Venice. At that time, I chose the place with the most tourists by the sea. It was noisy; By contrast, the two restaurants chose a quiet alley, eating more leisurely, guests also feel that there are local residents. Especially in the second Rosa Rossa pizza shop, when we were eating, many people passed by and chatted with waiter, the owner in front of the restaurant.

Living in a classical noble apartment where you can see the canal flowing under your eyes when you open the window, and eating local food in the alley, I feel that my second visit to Venice is more like a resident. Ten years ago, I stopped here for 20 hours; For the second time, I came to make up for some small regrets of the last time and stayed for more than 40 hours; The third time, I hope to be able to patronize at the annual carnival, hoping to stop for a week.

Rainbow in Venice Lagoon, the most colorful island of Burano

If Venice gives people a sense of classical magnificence and old dream reappearance, then the scattered islands of Lido, Murano, Burano, Torcello, mazzorbo in her lagoon will be a little more realistic. Among them, Murano Glass island and Burano Brano island are probably the most famous.

Murano is very close to Venice. The straight-line distance is only 1.5km away from Venetian lagoon. Because of the famous glass workshop on the island, she also has the nickname of glass island. Burano is relatively far away, seven kilometers away from Venetian lagoon, and is famous for its lovely houses in all kinds of rainbow colors. When you come to Venice, if you have enough time, you might as well go to the island to enjoy the leisurely atmosphere after visiting all kinds of prosperous places. In recent years, although there will be many tourists on the outer islands, compared with the main city of Venice, there are still many fewer tourists.

The outer island is a pity when I go to Venice for the first time. In order to make up for the regret, I have to go out of the main canal and have a look outside for the second time. You can find a very detailed schedule of vapor to water bus on the Internet, which tells you the time to go to each island outside. But I don't think it's necessary to remember the time. If I really want to go, I'll set aside a whole day to set out in the morning and get on the boat anyway.

We had a leisurely breakfast in our apartment. After 9:30, we took a leisurely walk to the dock outside St. Mark's Square to take a boat. Venice at this time has been covered by tourists.

Vaporetto is the only water bus in Venice, and ln (Laguna Norte) line goes to the outer island. It's most cost-effective to buy a 24-hour or 36 hour pass by boat. Besides going to the outer islands, you can also sit in different corners of the main island of Venice. From San Zaccaria station outside San Marco Square, you can take the LN line to Burano and Murano, which is very convenient. The ship will stop at Lido and Murano along the way, and finally arrive at Burano. Although the straight distance is not far, it will stop along the way because the ship is not fast, so it will take more than 40 minutes to arrive at Burano from the outside of St. Mark's Square

Out of personal preference, I chose to go to Burano to see the rainbow first. Murano felt bigger, so I went there to have lunch in the afternoon.

There's only one way to play Burano, and that's walking. Disembark from the wharf where vaporetto stops, walk for two minutes along a small, completely colorless path, and turn into the main street. The view becomes colorful.

A lot of lovely little houses, all painted into a variety of beautiful colors. It is said that because it used to be a fishing village, the colorful houses made it easier for fishermen to identify their homes in foggy weather. Although fishing is no longer the main business here, it should be the most prosperous tourism industry now, but this tradition has been completely preserved. Every house has its fixed color. If the owner wants to change the color, he must apply to the city authority.

I don't brush what color I want to brush. I have to refresh the color every year to keep the saturation and brightness of the color. As a tourist, I like the brighter colors best, and I think the bigger the color contrast between the two adjacent houses, the more beautiful it is, which is called color contrast.

If I own a house here, I would like to paint it in cream Blue / Royal Blue, just because it's my favorite color. Ha ha. Although I like orange, yellow and emerald green very much recently, such as the bright orange wall in the picture above, the sky blue window frame is also pretty beautiful.

As a tourist, the greatest pleasure is to take a picture in front of every house of your favorite color. It's really beautiful.

Burano island is not a complete land. Like Venice, it is several small lands separated by canals and connected by bridges. These islands are still completely without cars and roads, only a variety of rivers and boats parked by the river. The only means of transportation for residents is boats.

There are also a few B & B accommodation on the island for tourists. Of course, there are too few people who come here to live. After all, they need to bump from the mainland to Venice Island, and then take a boat from Venice. Come here with your luggage. There's no car to help you. You have to pull your luggage to find accommodation. Really come to live, that is absolute true love. We have met a couple of Asian faces, dragging their luggage to get off the ship here, to spend the night here.

Because there are many canals, all kinds of bridges are good places for concave shape.

Look at this row of houses, the color difference is so big, don't you think it seems to be made up of several pictures? Just like the first picture of this article.

Now the rainbow houses are mainly inhabited by local residents. You can see their well-dressed appearance and their daily life at the same time. There are sheets and tablecloths drying in the yard and clothes hanging shelves sticking out of the window. Because of the clothes hanging outside, Burano is grounded. It's easy to meet the local people who come out and do their daily activities.

Although the fishing industry is relatively depressed, life is not simple, and the once famous Burano lace products sales can not meet the daily consumption of the residents, the people here should be optimistic and happy. Seeing the luxuriant flowers and plants managed by every household, I think they love life very much.

We tourists, after coming to the island, will also be infected by the surrounding color, very happy.

Pisa has the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Burano has a low-key leaning tower. Burano's leaning bell tower is behind St. Martin bishop church and can be seen in many places on the island. The base of the tower is inclined to the top of the tower by 1.83 meters. No wonder I always feel like I'm not standing up straight.

Big magic girl loves rainbow color very much. In such a beautiful place, Mini Magic must come out and take a picture.

After walking along the alleys and seeing the bridge, you can cross several small rivers to reach galuppi square in the middle of the island. This central square is named after baldassare galuppi, a local famous composer. There is also a sculpture of him in the central square. Galuppi is famous in Vienna, London and St. Petersburg, but his base has always been in Venice, and his most brilliant achievement is to compose the holy melody for St. Mark's church.

Close to the center of the island, the alleys begin to open up. Although the houses on both sides are still colorful, they have gradually evolved from pure residential houses into small shops and restaurants. Small gift shop is mainly decorated outside some lace products, as well as handicrafts. Of course, as Venice's most famous masks are indispensable.

In front of each beautiful house, you must take a picture separately.

The more busy the center is, the more crowded the tourists are. There are several restaurants around the square. I feel it will be more emotional to eat. It's just that our plan is to go to Murano for dinner again.

In fact, if you have enough time, for example, if you only visit this island on this day, you can follow a bridge on the edge of Burano and go to mazzorbo island next door to have a look.

There are also a lot of local Italian middle school students and primary school students who come here for an outing.

Through the central square, we took another road and went back to the first colored lane.

This alley seems to be the most representative. Anyway, 80% of the big photos on the Internet are taken of this canal road. It's her ID. it's a landmark.

After wandering around Burano for more than two hours, I didn't do anything special, just watching the rainbow and taking all kinds of photos.

People say it's the most colorful place in the world, and I think it deserves its reputation. There are also five fishing villages in Italy, which I have just visited before

The best coastline: a walk from monterosso to Vernazza http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_ 5998d3140102v2ep.html

Cinque Terre day 2: cruise ship, Rainbow Village on the cliff in the bright sun

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5998d3140102v60i.html

These are rainbow towns in a relatively small area. I think my next rainbow target is Guanajuato, the mountain city of Mexico in a relatively large area. Imagine the rainbow of that mountain. I'm so excited.

Hehe ~ but before that, I have to go to the next station Murano ~

Murano's leisurely afternoon

After leaving Burano, you can take the vapor to water bus for more than 20 minutes to Murano Island, which is also known as glass island because of its famous glass workshop.

From the moment we set foot on the island, the characteristics of glass island are revealed in every corner. There are large glass statues in the middle of squares and alleys. Craftsmen are busy making new works in glass workshops hidden in alleys. There are a wide range of colorful glass products in gift shops on both sides of the street, from thumb sized ornaments to large glass chandelier sculptures.

The overall feeling here is more like a miniature Venice than Burano, a little more spacious and flat. If I bring you here blindfolded, you will probably think it's just the streets around the main island of Venice. It's not as bright as Burano, and it's much more simple than the main island of Venice. If you don't like the crowd and want to feel the water town in the good time of the day, this is a good choice.

Murano island is our lunch spot on this day. On the side of the square with huge blue-green glass flowers, when I saw busa alla Torre Da Lele, I thought it was good, so I sat down.

The weather is fine, we all sit outside to eat, the table outside is covered with bright yellow tablecloth, looking very warm.

Most of the Italian food in this area is seafood, so of course we also ordered seafood related food.

Calamari squid ring is brown outside and tender inside, which is very suitable for hot weather.

Prawn spaghetti, lots of prawns. Prawn red pigment is fried and mixed with spaghetti. The taste is very fragrant.

Lobster spaghetti, there is really half lobster spaghetti. Half of the plate is occupied by lobster, which is delicious.

The dishes here, as long as the seafood is fresh, with some olive oil Basil Basil basil, simple ocean, a little pepper, really taste super good. I like this kind of cuisine that highlights the taste of the ingredients.

I was satisfied with the slightly late lunch, and after that, I strolled slowly in Murano. Walking here will feel more comfortable than walking on the main island. The main reason is that the space is relatively large（ I seem to have emphasized this point several times in this article

If Venice's sense of magnificence is a place where aristocrats will live, Murano belongs to the ordinary middle class; Burano is the residence of fishermen and more working class.

Murano's houses are relatively simple, but the color is also relatively conservative, basically very simple brick red. Looking at it now, I feel that many houses are empty, and I don't have the feeling that I still have a lot of vitality when I see them in Burano. Of course, where people live, the balcony is still decorated with flowers.

The canal road here is also relatively cold, lacking the crowded gondola and water taxis, with only a few private yachts shuttling on the water. The canal bank is a good place to bask in the sun in a daze. Many tourists and even feel that they are local people. They all sit on the river bank chatting and sleeping in a daze.

There are many bridges in Murano, but the bridges here are much bigger than those in the new world. In some small corners, there is a little bit of the sentiment of the water town in southern China.

We took a big turn around the canal on the island, walked through several bridges and strolled several streets.

Through many beautiful windows, I really think the glass products here are very beautiful, and there are many very original designs. However, I have already passed the stage when I have to buy souvenirs when I travel. I won't look at many things when I go home, and I don't think they are very useful. Nowadays, most of them take photos and leave images, but seldom buy them. Unless there is that kind of love at first sight, amazing, very special or special trip is to buy that kind of thing, will really sell.

Murano can do it in about two hours. Then you can take advantage of the time before sunset to return to the main island of Venice. When the water bus approached Venice, the water was just illuminated by the setting sun, with a slight golden light. The gorgeous buildings were covered with hazy light, which was the feeling of being in a dream.

After getting off the water bus, we followed the crowd into the alleys of Venice. I suddenly feel that there are only a few places where I can tolerate dense crowds. The dinner that day was pizza.

After dinner, reluctantly in the alley to continue to stroll. Venice is more charming when the sky is dark. The dim light covers her decay, her scars and her defects. What is printed in her eyes is just the gorgeous body shadow.

This place, I will come again... To see your most gorgeous and prosperous scene~~