I Lost My Way Regularly Every
Time That I Went From My Inn To The Piazza Di San Marco, Which Forms The
General Rendezvous Of The Promenaders And Is The Fashionable Lounge Of
Venice; And Every Time I Was Obliged To Hire A Boy To Reconduct Me To My
Inn.
On this account, in order to avoid this perplexity and the expence of
hiring a gondola every time I
Wished to go to the Piazza di San Marco I
removed to another inn, close to it, called L'Osteria della Luna, which
stands on the banks of the Canale grande and is not twenty yards from the
Piazza.
I then hired a gondola for four days successively and visited every canal
and every part of the city. Almost every family of respectability keeps a
gondola, which is anchored at the steps of the front door of the house.
After the Piazza di San Marco, of which I shall speak presently, the
finest buildings and Palaces of the nobility are on the banks of the
Canale grande, which, from its winding in the shape of an S, has all the
appearance of a river. The Rialto is the only bridge which connects the
opposite banks of the Canale grande; but there are four hundred smaller
bridges in Venice to connect the other canals.
The Rialto, the resort of the money changers and Jews, is a very singular
and picturesque construction, being of one arch, a very bold one. On each
side of this bridge is a range of jewellers' shops.
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