Venice, Italy
Graceful, beautiful, and constantly enchanting, Venice
is also a prime example of the tragic, all-consuming lust for wealth,
power, and sordid ambitions. That all these contradictions coexist in
such a sumptuous milieu makes it, rightly, a destination synonymous with
worldly experience. “See Venice and die” puts the city squarely at the
ultimate conclusion of any bucket list. For the Victorians life was not
quite complete, youth not adequately finished until Venice was crossed
off the list. Yet it surmounts all the clichés; it's never tawdry,
always remarkable. Today, this island city of lost hegemony is a museum
unto itself, a time capsule we can’t quite bear to relinquish. It is so
ravishing.
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